Spotify Planning on Bringing Its Own Clubhouse Competitor

Clubhouse has been gaining popularity since its release. Spotify, today, equally a function of its recent acquisition of Betty Labs, announced its plan of bringing a Clubhouse-like live audio feature to its app.

Betty Labs, the creator of the popular live-audio app Locker Room, was acquired by Spotify today. Even though the details of the transaction weren't revealed, Spotify did lay out its plans of diversifying the live sports audio app into much more.

"Creators and fans take been request for live formats on Spotify, and nosotros're excited that soon, we'll make them available to hundreds of millions of listeners and millions of creators on our platform. The globe already turns to us for music, podcasts, and other unique audio experiences, and this new live audio feel is a powerful complement that volition raise and extend the on-demand feel nosotros provide today."

As a result of the acquisition, the Locker Room app will stay on the App Store. Spotify will aggrandize Locker Room'southward topics from only sports to music, culture, and more in the time to come. The app volition likewise be rebranded in the upcoming updates, though no proper name has been revealed as of now.

Even though Spotify says the two apps volition remain separate, for now at to the lowest degree, its principal R&D officeholder Söderström says "maybe we'll integrate some of these features or all of these features in the time to come." He also says that Spotify will 'experiment with different monetization features.' Some live-audio chats might be gratis to enter, while some might be paid, he added.

Recently, Telegram introduced its new Clubhouse-similar unlimited voice chats feature. Twitter is also known to be working on a Clubhouse competitor called Spaces, which volition exist rolled out to users next month.

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[Via Spotify]