


Liliana Kim has been brought on as the new managing director of Parcast. studios and video, wrote that Nicole Beemsterboer will become Gimlet’s new managing director, the source familiar with the matter shared. In an internal note, chief content officer of Spotify, Dawn Ostroff, and Julie McNamara, head of U.S. In the second quarter of 2023, Spotify will also say goodbye to “Horoscope Today.” Over the next couple of months, podcasts leaving the platform include Gimlet’s “How to Save a Planet,” “Crime Show,” “Every Little Thing,” as well as Parcast’s “Medical Murders,” “Female Criminals,” “Crimes of Passion,” “Dictator,” “Mythology,” “Haunted Places” and “Urban Legends.” Reached for comment, Spotify said it does not comment publicly on staffing changes. Spotify will also reassign some staff to other podcasts, we understand. Spotify is pulling 11 original podcasts from the platform, which will impact studios Parcast and Gimlet and involve less than 5% layoffs from Spotify’s podcast staff, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to TechCrunch.
