Remember in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic when live audio was suddenly everywhere? The trend was made popular by the briefly viral phenomenon Clubhouse before seemingly every other online platform copied the feature for themselves.

According to the update, LinkedIn users can no longer schedule a new Audio Event as of December 2. Audio Events already scheduled before December 31 can continue as planned. Any Audio Event scheduled after that date must be rescheduled by December 15 as Audio Events will be entirely unavailable after this year.

LinkedIn users can still create audio-only streaming events via LinkedIn Live, but they will need to use third-party services to do so.

Users will no longer be able to create new LinkedIn Audio Events streams from December 2 Streams scheduled up until December 31 will continue to be supported LinkedIn Live takes its place in a product simplification effort LinkedIn has confirmed it will be discontinuing Audio Events,