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Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded in April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. As of December 2025, it was one of the largest providers of music streaming services, with over 751 million monthly active users comprising 290 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 revolutionised 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, nearly 7 million podcast titles, and 350,000 audiobooks a la carte on Spotify. We are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with more than 678 million users, including 268 million subscribers in more than 180 markets.
Latest news
- Mar 10: How much of your podcast do people listen to? Bumper analysed more than 100,000 episodes to discover that the average (on Apple and Spotify) is 76%. (But, for shows under half an hour, it’s 85%).
- Mar 9: Token Count is a weekly podcast using AI, published using a single command. Trevor Prater, the creator of the show, says: "What makes it different from other AI audio experiments: it's sustained (3 months of weekly episodes, not a one-off demo), the comedy actually works (distinct character dynamics, callbacks, natural escalation), and the production quality includes music beds, comedy stings, and performance-directed dialogue with interruptions, reactions, and varied delivery. The tech stack uses Gemini for script generation, ElevenLabs’ text-to-dialogue API for multi-speaker synthesis, Temporal for durable workflow orchestration, and publishes directly to Spotify.
- Mar 6: Spotify gave a new set of Creator Milestone Awards to podcasters for Q4/25. The winners include Spotify exec Bill Simmons. Reaching Gold (500 million streams) is the true-crime show Morbid.
- Mar 4: Spotify also offers audiobooks. For $9.99 a month, you get access to 15 hours of audiobooks “from our audiobooks subscriber catalog” (with ad-funded music and podcasts); and for $12.99 a month, you get the full premium music and podcasts and 15 hours of audiobooks.
- Mar 3: The (many) nominees of the NYC Podcast Awards have been announced; the ceremony is on Mar 13. Meanwhile, Spotify has been announced as the sponsor of the Scottish Podcast Awards. Entry is now free for all creators. You’ve until Mar 9 to enter that one.
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