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Spotify is a Swedish freemium music streaming service provider founded in April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. As of March 2026, it is one of the largest providers of music streaming services, with over 788 million monthly active users comprising 306 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
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About Spotify
Since its launch in 2008, Spotify has revolutionized music listening. Our move into podcasting brought innovation and a new generation of listeners to the medium. In 2022, we took the next leap, entering the fast-growing audiobook market—continuing to shape the future of audio. Today, more listeners than ever can discover, manage and enjoy over 100 million tracks, 7 million podcast titles, and 500,000 audiobooks in select markets on Spotify. We are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with 761 million users, including 293 million subscribers across 184 markets.
Latest news
- Nov 6: The downside of those in-flight entertainment screens? They never have the podcasts and music you want on them, and you can't log into your own Spotify account. Until now - United and Spotify has announced a feature where you can sign-in to your Spotify account and access all your stuff.
- Nov 3: Got a YouTube channel? Why isn't it on Spotify, asks Flightcast, which has launched a new tool to enable all YouTube creators to automatically get their content onto Spotify video. The YouTube-to-Spotify tool is available today, and could mean that YouTubers can earn money from Spotify as well, subject to the company's eligibility rules.
- Oct 26: Podcast Days 2026 took place in Madrid, Spain. The event featured representatives from Acast, Oxford Road, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, as well as a number of Spanish-language podcasters.
- Oct 23: Spotify published its Q3/26 financial update. In a welcome turn of fortune, ad revenue was up +10% year-on-year, led by "strong growth in automated biddable sales channels" - and "podcasting growth was led by sponsorship gains within our Owned and Licensed portfolio". Ad revenue accounts for only 10.7% of total company revenue - and ads are half as profitable as premium subscribers. The number of premium subscribers grew +9% to 306mn. The newly-introduced skip-ahead button seems to be not mentioned to investors.
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