Paris (AFP)
Spotify, a heavyweight in online music, is launching a new type of playlist on Tuesday combining personalized music and news podcasts produced by several French news media, including the French daily Le Monde and AFP.
This feature, called "My daily" in France, offers each user a playlist "designed for them by Spotify" which brings together "in a single listening moment a personalized musical selection, and short news podcasts", exposes the group in a press release.
These are produced by Le Monde, Agence France presse (AFP), the online news media Brut, Radio France (franceinfo and France Inter) and the Choses à Savoir podcast network, the main partners of this service.
The musical mix is designed "according to users' listening so that they can both listen to their favorite songs but also discover others according to the titles and artists they listen to", details the platform.
Updates to the playlist are made throughout the day, she says.
Three news podcasts are broadcast exclusively on the platform: "L'Heure du Monde", a new podcast produced by the daily, which "offers an exchange with a journalist from the editorial staff, for a 20-minute perspective on the subject of 'news of the day or an in-depth return on an investigation ".
AFP, for its part, is launching "On the wire", a new daily format "to capture the essentials of the day's news in France and internationally in three minutes, published Monday to Friday from 5:00 am".
As for the 100% video media Brut, since January it has been offering "to find its testimonies and strongest reports in podcast, in a twice-daily meeting" on the platform.
This feature is also available in five countries (United States, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, Germany), specifies Spotify.
World number one in music streaming, Spotify claims 345 million users, including 155 million subscribers, in 170 markets.
Like its French competitor Deezer, the Swedish group is developing more and more in the world of podcasts, in full swing around audio content of all kinds.
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