Amazon announced that it inked a deal to acquire Wondery, a four-year-old podcast producer. Terms of the deal, under which the Wondery team will join the Amazon Music group, were not disclosed.

The company accounted for more than 166 million podcast downloads or streams, making it No. 2 for the month behind iHeartMedia’s podcast platform, which had a U.S. audience of 32.6 million ...

Amazon’s new podcast feature follows Spotify’s strategy of bundling podcasts with its subscription music service and cross-pollinating the podcast and music audiences in a single app. Podcasts ...

John Allen, the former Navy SEAL and rising podcast star known as MrBallen, has struck a wide-reaching content deal with Amazon that will see his hit podcast become available exclusively on Amazon ...

Wondery has also begun developing consumer goods based on its podcasts, which can be sold directly on Amazon and beyond. (“Wow in the World,” a children’s science podcast, debuted its ...

Photo: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg News Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 0.31% said it has agreed to acquire podcast producer Wondery, the online retail giant’s latest move to beef up its audio offerings.

As mentioned before, Amazon will pull information from reviews to help generate the podcast. However, Amazon has a massive issue with fake reviews being plastered on the site.

Amazon said Wednesday it would acquire podcast startup Wondery, aiming to beef up non-musical content on its Amazon Music app. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that the fir… ...

Amazon.com Inc AMZN -0.53%. is in exclusive talks to purchase podcast startup Wondery, according to people familiar with the matter, as the tech giant pushes further into the growing audio sector.

The BBC and Amazon Music have struck a deal that will make BBC podcasts available on the streaming service for the first time outside the U.K. Beginning on Monday, subscribers to Amazon’s Prime ...

Amazon Music didn’t specify how large its total podcast catalog was at launch, but an Amazon spokesperson told us it’s 70,000. Its website continues to solicit creator submissions, as well.