The Spotify application on a smartphone (illustration).
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Spotify, heavyweight in online music, launched this Tuesday in France a new type of playlist mixing personalized music and news podcasts produced by several French news media.
This feature, called "My Daily", offers each user a playlist "designed for them" which brings together "in a single listening moment a personalized musical selection, and short news podcasts", exposes the group in a statement.
Your music, and all the news of the day, in a playlist.
With #MonDaily, find every day on Spotify everything you need to know about the news in podcasts, mixed with your favorite music.
To discover now.
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- Spotify France (@spotifyfrance) March 30, 2021
These are produced by
Le Monde
,
Agence France Presse
(AFP), Brut, Radio France (France Info and France Inter) and Choses à Savoir, the main partners of this service.
The musical mix is designed "according to the listening of users 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.
345 million users
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 “Sur le fil”, a new daily format “to capture the essentials of the day's news in France and abroad” through “original analyzes, lasting from three to four. five minutes from Monday to Friday ”from 6 am.
As for the 100% video media Brut, it has been offering, since January, "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: the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and 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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