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Spotify is a Swedish music streaming service service provider founded in April 2006 by the businessmen 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 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
- May 22: Spotify announced a set of new podcast features.
- May 15: Spotify's Megaphone, and Spotify for Creators, are to support video for podcasts published on Apple Podcasts. The two companies were the only large podcast hosts not to announce support for HLS video when Apple announced it earlier in the year. No pricing has been given. It doesn't change how video works on Spotify, however: the company still requires videos to be uploaded directly for playback on the Spotify app.
- May 14: Sir Paul McCartney is the guest on two Goalhanger shows this week - The Rest is Entertainment (asking questions from listeners) and The Rest is History (going into more detail on Sir Paul's life). For noting - the shows were released to paid members early; and it's smart to get double the exposure by using two shows on the network. (He has a new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, out May 29).
- May 12: Spotify drives 1.5x more podcast consumption than YouTube, according to new data from Podstock. However, part of that is due to discovery tools and reach for new audiences - new listeners lower average time spent per stream. The data, based on thousands of different podcast episodes, highlights the increasingly multiplatform world of podcasting.
- May 11: Edison Research has published the Top 10 Podcast Networks in the US for weekly reach. Spotify is #1, SiriusXM is #2, while iHeartPodcasts is at #3.
Data credits: Google Maps, Podnews newsletter, Wikipedia