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Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. As of September 2025, it is one of the largest providers of music streaming services, with over 713 million monthly active users comprising 281 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
- Nov 10: In June we reported that Spotify’s video podcasts are on United’s in-flight entertainment screens. Imagine the disappointment this Podnews reader felt when he excitedly settled back to browse the collection, only to discover (in this video) that there’s actually nothing there.
- Nov 5: Spotify announced its Q3/25 financial earnings. Subscribers, and total revenue, both grew +12% year-on-year. The company now has 713mn monthly active users.
- Nov 4:
show up in Apple Podcasts and Spotify search results, right where your audience is looking for content like yours.
- Oct 30: Half of the first set of Spotify podcasts coming to Netflix have fewer than 50,000 plays for each of their last ten episodes - even including both Spotify and YouTube, notes Deadline.
- Oct 29: Spotify’s app on Apple TV didn’t, astonishingly, have any access to video podcasts: an oversight that has been fixed today: the tvOS app now includes them, more than a year after video podcasts were rolled-out to creators. The app also now includes Spotify DJ, a feature which was launched in Feb 2023. The company says the app has been entirely rewritten.
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