Swedish start-up Logcast unveils Spotify integration that lets creators cost for speak content material

Voice streaming startup Logcast has introduced a brand new integration with Spotify‘s app that it says goals to offer artists with a brand new strategy to earn cash from content material on the platform.

As a part of the mixing introduced by Logcast on Wednesday (November 30), the startup will let artists share short-form ‘speak content material’ — equivalent to  “particular bulletins and behind-the-scenes moments from their music careers” recorded as voice notes within the Logcast app — with their Spotify listeners.

Logcast says that artists can choose to lock their content material behind a paywall, requiring followers to pay to stream their audio.

Headquartered in Sweden, Logcast launched its app globally in November 2021. It studies to have attracted greater than 15,000 creators in additional than 60 nations and greater than 150 million listeners.

Logcast says that its present buyers embody San Francisco-based VC agency Goodwater Capital, (an early investor in each Spotify and Fb), in addition to “world tech and leisure executives” together with Jonas Siljemark, a former President of Warner Music Nordics.

Logcast says that the brand new function, which it notes will probably be powered by Spotify’s Open Entry Program, will probably be accessible to creators solely by Logcast.

It’s going to start rolling out in Sweden in January, and is ready to increase internationally throughout 2023.

Launched in 2021, Spotify’s Open Entry Program lets publishers and platforms — who’ve subscribers elsewhere — make their subscription content material accessible on Spotify.

With the Open Entry Program, creators can proceed delivering paid content material to their present paid audiences utilizing Spotify.

“We’ve seen a large demand from followers eager to get entry to intimate moments — the unscripted, unedited, uncooked and unfiltered moments from their favourite artists’ lives,” stated Logcast co-founder, Johanna Hoof.

“We’ve seen a large demand from followers eager to get entry to intimate moments — the unscripted, unedited, uncooked and unfiltered moments from their favourite artists’ lives.”

Johanna Hoof, Logcast

Added Hoof: “By enabling a brand new content material format for music artists to monetize on Spotify, our purpose is to assist artists maximize their fan bases.

“Inside Spotify, this content material will probably be searchable and discoverable like some other track or podcast episode.”

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