Pursuits
Amazon Hiring Comedians, Engineers for Growing Audio Service
- Audible expands to offer radio-style programming, podcasts
- Division is advertising for almost 100 positions worldwide
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Amazon.com Inc. is ramping up its investment in podcasts and other radio-style shows to expand the types of programming it offers via Audible, the audio book company it acquired in 2008.
Audible has recruited well-known comedians, along with radio and podcast producers for the initiative, and job postings suggest a significant global push. Maria Bamford and Jonathan Katz are taping episodes of “Bedtime Stories,” a show in which comedians rewrite fairy tales, according to their manager Bruce Smith.