fifth Ward Alderman Leslie A. Hairston, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, Former U.S. president Barack Obama, Former First Woman Michelle Obama, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and Alderperson (seventh ward) Greg Mitchell have fun through the groundbreaking ceremony for the Obama presidential heart in Jackson Park, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., September 28, 2021. REUTERS/Sebastian Hidalgo
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June 21 (Reuters) – The Obamas’ media firm Greater Floor has signed a multi-year take care of Amazon Inc-owned Audible to make authentic audio content material, after ending its three-year run with Spotify (SPOT.N).
The phrases of the settlement introduced on Tuesday weren’t disclosed. The deal offers Audible the suitable to have a primary take a look at the brand new materials earlier than others within the trade get entry to it.
Greater Floor signed its first podcast take care of Spotify in 2019 and went on to make exhibits akin to “The Michelle Obama Podcast” and “Born within the USA”, a sequence of conversations between former U.S. President Barack Obama and musician Bruce Springsteen.
However the Swedish audio-streaming platform declined to resume its take care of the Greater Floor, prompting the Obamas to hunt new companions, Bloomberg Information reported in April.
The report had mentioned that Greater Floor was then in talks with different distributors a couple of deal price tens of tens of millions of {dollars}, among the many most profitable within the podcasting enterprise.
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Reporting by Rithika Krishna in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Aditya Soni
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