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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 was one of the largest providers of music streaming services, with over 761 million monthly active users comprising 293 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
- Jul 9: YouTube is now the most popular service used for podcast consumption in the UK - two years after YouTube edged out Spotify in the US for the first time. Apple Podcasts is the fourth most popular in the country, after BBC Sounds, the corporation's proprietary app. The data is from Edison Research at SSRS, who present The UK Podcast Consumer 2026 in a free webinar on Jul 16.
- Jul 8: Spotify has deepened its relationship with Amazon DSP. Now, advertisers using Amazon DSP are able to directly buy audio ads across podcasts on Spotify, globally. This opens up significant additional revenue opportunities for podcasting, Spotify says. Amazon DSP is a tool that also has partnerships with Disney+, Tubi and Hulu, and reports suggest more than $60 billion was spent by advertisers on Amazon DSP last year.
- Jul 6: The British Podcast Awards has announced that the final round of the Listener's Choice Award - the listener-voted prize in the competition - will be chosen using the Spotify platform. After an open vote on the British Podcast Awards website, the top 20 will move forward to a vote that requires listeners to use Spotify to make their final vote. "Any podcast currently available on Spotify is eligible for nomination". The award last year went to history podcast Betwixt The Sheets.
- Jul 2: More and more people are using podcast app Overcast. Buzzsprout's platform stats for June show that podcast consumption by Overcast has increased by +28% year-on-year. Most other apps are relatively static - except Spotify, which shows a slump of -26%. (Some of this could be attributed to Spotify video, which is hosted by Spotify themselves). "Web browsers" are up by 4.4%.
- Jun 19: Rebel Audio, a new AI-powered podcast platform, launched in March, has moved into public beta. The platform promises AI powered translation, clipping and repurposing, and direct publishing to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and other platforms in one click. The company has launched a podcast to put the platform's capabilities on display.
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