{"id":118962,"date":"2025-08-04T19:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118962\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:40:16","slug":"amazon-denies-report-its-shutting-down-wondery-podcast-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118962\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon denies report it&#8217;s shutting down Wondery podcast studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon is denying that it\u2019s shutting down Wondery, the podcast studio it <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/12\/30\/amazon-acquires-podcast-network-wondery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquired in late 2020<\/a>, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-04\/amazon-to-shut-down-wondery-podcast-studio-reorganize-audio-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg reported<\/a> on Monday that the company was closing the studio and cutting 110 jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon told TechCrunch that\u00a0Wondery will continue to develop creator-led podcasts under the Wondery brand within a new team. What\u2019s changing is that the company is separating the teams that oversee Wondery\u2019s narrative podcast efforts from those developing its creator-led shows. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wondery is combining its narrative podcast studio, which includes podcasts like\u00a0Dr. Death and American Scandal, with Audible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe podcast landscape has evolved significantly in the past few years, particularly with the rise of video-forward, creator-led content,\u201d Amazon said in an emailed statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese changes reflect that evolution and will streamline how Wondery integrates further into Amazon. By making these changes, we can better support creators in monetizing their content across multiple channels, help them expand their brand IP, and simplify the process for advertisers while making content more accessible to audiences wherever they prefer to consume it. This evolution builds on Wondery\u2019s early success with video-forward shows and positions us to better serve creators, customers, and advertisers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite securing big names in the business, the company is now shifting its strategy in an effort to better compete with rivals like Spotify and YouTube as the podcasting industry embraces video formats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Update: The article was updated to reflect that Amazon denied reports of Wondery shutting down.<\/p>\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 27-29, 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon is denying that it\u2019s shutting down Wondery, the podcast studio it acquired in late 2020, after Bloomberg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2431,64,5158,67,132,68,74206],"class_list":{"0":"post-118962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-podcasts","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wondery"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114972198666482391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}