Pandora recently announced the launch of Pandora For Podcasts, a new self-service online hub for podcasts that lets creators to submit their shows for consideration to be included in Pandora’s rich catalog of podcasts.

Amazon has been reaching out to some of the top brands including Colgate, L’Oréal and Lululemon, to get them to be part of a beta program for audio ads on Alexa voice-activated devices such as the Echo, Echo Dot, and others.

Pandora will start testing interactive voice ads next year as a result of its new partnership with San-Francisco-based, voice-enabled audio advertising platform, Instreamatic.

Waze launches Waze Audio Player, a new built-in app that lets drivers listen to music, podcasts, audiobooks, and news from third party apps such as Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio and TuneIn.

Spotify updates its Spotify Premium app with Streamlined Navigation, Personalized Search, and Endless Artist Radio.

Pandora launches a personalized playlist in The Drop for Pandora Premium users. Featuring as many as 100 songs, The Drop features the latest and greatest music from artists that a user likes as well as artists that they may like based on the app’s “state of the art machine learning models.”

Pandora and Snapchat have announced a new partnership that allows Pandora Premium listeners to share music from Pandora via music cards on Snapchat.