Spotify will lay off 600 people, which is close to 6% of its workforce.  In her newsletter, Ashley Carman gives insight and a recap of the Spotify layoffs.  Carman reports that Spotify employees had a sense of the impending layoffs, as evidenced by posts on their workplace social network Blind.  Chief content and advertising business officer Dawn Ostroff will step down after five years of leading Spotify's podcast strategy. However, CEO Daniel Ek shared in a meeting that the "podcast strategy wouldn't change."  Alex Norström, the chief freemium business officer, will now oversee content. Carman notes that his background is business as opposed to Ostroff, who came from the world of content.  Spotify will be hosting Stream On on March 8, which will be live-streamed on their YouTube channel.