Audible news and trends

Spotify Expands Audiobook Offerings as Competitive Pricing Drives Consumer Engagement
Subscription Commerce // March 05, 2024

With more readers turning to digital platforms for their literary fix, demand for audiobooks continues to soar.  Against this backdrop, subscription services are seizing the opportunity to capitalize on this growing trend as part of broader efforts to secure subscribers’ long-term loyalty. Spotify’s recent rollout...

Subscription Merchants Tap Audiobooks to Drive Consumer Loyalty
Subscriptions // December 20, 2023

As businesses compete for subscribers’ long-term loyalty, key players are increasingly leveraging audiobooks to keep customers coming back. Take, for instance, Spotify, which announced last month the addition of more than 200,000 audiobooks for its Premium subscribers, with 15 hours of listening included in the...

Amazon’s ‘Your Books’ Lets Customers View Reading History, Recommends Titles
Amazon // December 13, 2023

Amazon’s latest offering harkens back to its roots as a bookseller. The company’s Your Books feature, announced Wednesday (Dec. 13), lets users explore all their books in one place, while offering personalized features to find the next thing to read. The feature, Amazon said in...

Today in the Connected Economy: Versana Tackles $5T Syndicated Loan Market
Connected Economy // March 16, 2022

Today in the connected economy, J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Citi and Credit Suisse unveil their loan platform Versana, which they say will bring “transparency, efficiency and velocity” to the $5 trillion syndicated loan market. Also, Audible signs a deal with 1Huddle to give its...

Quick Reads
Audible Says New Royalty Model Monetizes More Content

July 11, 2024
Amazon-owned online audiobook and podcast service Audible is rolling out a new royalty model that will enable creators to monetize more types of content. The model will also allow listeners to access more storytelling, the company said in a Thursday (July 11) blog post on its website. In the new model, titles in all Audible’s membership offerings can […]

Amazon’s ‘Your Books’ Lets Customers View Reading History, Recommends Titles

December 13, 2023
Amazon’s latest offering harkens back to its roots as a bookseller. The company’s Your Books feature, announced Wednesday (Dec. 13), lets users explore all their books in one place, while...

Audible Incorporates 1Huddle Workforce Development Platform Through $1M Deal

March 16, 2022
Workforce technology platform 1Huddle, which helps to onboard, upskill and develop employees, on Wednesday (March 16) finalized a $1 million deal with Audible that makes its offerings available to the...

Report: Tesla Plans To Integrate Apple, Amazon Music In Its Cars

December 28, 2020
Tesla is said to be supplementing its in-car music services beyond Spotify, adding Jay Z’s Tidal, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Amazon’s Audible to its native interface, Electrek reported Monday...