Spotify Looks to Pay Video Creators to Put Shows on Platform

Hello again. Welcome back to Soundbite. It’s starting to feel a little more like podcasting’s boom years — mega deals are back, and, as I’ll explain today, Spotify Technology SA is re-opening its wallet. We’ve also got a separate Spotify scoop that adds new details to an ongoing, high-profile story about artificial intelligence-aided fraud in the streaming music industry. Reach me through email, and if you haven’t yet subscribed to this newsletter, please do so here . Tell a friend to sign up, too.

We’re less than a month from our team’s second annual Screentime conference in Los Angeles on Oct. 9 and 10. Lots of executives and creatives, including Rob Stringer of Sony Music Group, will be attending. Jason Blum will sit in for a Hot Ones live taping, and I’ll be there interviewing the chief executive officer of OnlyFans, Keily Blair, and comedian Whitney Cummings. You can learn more and get tickets here . (I’ll also have some time for meetings while I’m in LA that week, so if we haven’t met or caught up in a while, let’s get together.)