Spotify-owned Findaway Voices eliminates distribution fee for audiobooks on the streaming service

May 1, 2023

Spotify and Findaway announced today that Findaway Voices, an audiobook distributor for independent authors, is eliminating its 20% distribution fee for audiobooks purchased on Spotify. The streaming service acquired digital audiobook distributor Findaway back in November 2021. Findaway says the change means that Spotify now offers the highest royalty authors can make when selling their […]

Spotify-owned Findaway Voices eliminates distribution fee for audiobooks on the streaming service by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon will juice its Freevee free streaming service with 100+ Amazon Originals in 2023

May 1, 2023

As part of its pitch to advertisers this week at the IAB NewFronts, Amazon announced today it has plans to bring over 100 Amazon Original series and movies from Amazon Prime Video to its ad-supported free streaming service Amazon Freevee (previously known as IMDb TV). The titles will be released throughout the year, the company […]

Amazon will juice its Freevee free streaming service with 100+ Amazon Originals in 2023 by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Vercel brings new backend tools to its frontend cloud

May 1, 2023

Frontend platform Vercel today announced the launch of a number of backend services, including Redis and PostgreSQL databases and an object storage service, all of which Vercel built with partners like Upstash, Neon and Cloudflare. That’s in addition to the launch of new security features like Vercel Secure Compute and the Vercel Firewall, as well […]

Vercel brings new backend tools to its frontend cloud by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch