As aspect of its ever-growing slate of services, Apple is betting on primary podcasting with its freshly announced everyday news application, Apple News Right now.

The each day news podcast was portion of a series of new offerings Apple declared in a site submit on Wednesday and follows a report from Bloomberg final yr that the corporation was planning to pony up for podcast originals—incidentally, just months just after Spotify begun snapping up podcasting firms for its personal services.

The solutions match is a serious rat race these days, with just about all people and their mother launching a new streaming solution of some type. And with Apple expanding its products and services to contain gaming, information, entertainment, and music—and given that it has an entire application for this kind of thing—it will make it would lean into first podcasts as properly.

Apple News Now, hosted by Apple Information editors Shumita Basu and Duarte Geraldino, will be accessible Monday by way of Friday early morning in the News and Podcasts apps. No distinct coverage program was discovered, but the firm claimed the podcast would “guide listeners through some of the most intriguing stories in the news — and how the world’s greatest journalists are masking them.”

The enterprise also introduced that it is rolling out Apple News+ audio stories starting Wednesday and moving forward at a clip of about 20 for each week. These are audio variations of extended-variety tales from Apple’s publishing partners and will be available on Apple Information+, the enterprise said. Apple News, in the meantime, will get supplemental nearby news curation from regional publishers for users in find cities, which includes the Bay Space, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.

“Apple News showcases so considerably great journalism, and we’re excited to support deliver it to lifetime in new ways with Apple News+ audio tales and a new each day news display, Apple Information Now,” Lauren Kern, editor-in-chief of Apple News, reported in a assertion. “We also greatly price our lots of area news partners—our new neighborhood information feature highlights their perform for audience who dwell, and are fascinated, in these communities.”