Spotify
Address: 
Regeringsgatan 19, 111 53 Stockholm, Sweden
Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. As of September 2024, it is one of the largest providers of music streaming services, with over 640 million monthly active users comprising 252 million paying subscribers. Spotify is listed on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American depositary receipts. Wikipedia
Website: spotify.com
Symbol: NYSE:SPOT
Owns
Latest news
- Jan 22: Podtrac has added two new features for customers of its $20/month “grow your show” plan - Smartlinks, to measure the effectiveness of online promotions, and rankings from Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
- Jan 13: Substack, which announced a partnership with Spotify in April last year, is now promoting its Spotify integration on the Substack dashboard. The service also has integrations with Apple, YouTube Music, “Youtube Podcasts”, Pocket Casts and Overcast; but this is the first time that our Podnews reader who spotted this has seen them actively promote it.
- Jan 10: Give us your money. Triton Digital’s Sharon Taylor writes her “short list of very polite demands — goals, really — for the podcast industry in 2025”. One of her demands that we’ll absolutely back her up with: that “Spotify, YouTube or Apple release useful industry data.” We’ve been asking these companies this for years (and suggesting some data points we know they have). Weirdly, they never seem to read that bit of our email. All three companies also don’t use IAB podcast measurement guidelines.
- Jan 9: Spotify appears to have added unskippable midroll podcasts ads in Joe Rogan’s show. Rogan had suggested he’d never do ads mid-conversation.
Data credits: Google Maps, Podnews newsletter, Wikipedia