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Spotify is a Swedish-Luxembourgish audio streaming and media service provider founded in 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
- Dec 22: The entire contents of Spotify (as of July this year) have been downloaded and analysed by Anna's Archive, an anonymous group. (Archive link). Our link to their blog post (which doesn't contain links to any audio) contains overall metadata analysis of the songs on the service; and also suggests that the group has an incomplete database of five million podcasts, and 54 million episodes, from Spotify. (The metadata, only, is available for download via torrent currently.)
- Dec 19: Ben Cave from Apple Podcasts underscores that podcasts are open by design; and teases us that the platform will "continue to innovate with new features". Buzzsprout's Jordan Blair highlights that we'll see an "absolute brick wall of AI fatigue"; Roman Wasenmüller from Spotify focuses on what he calls the authenticity and loyalty that has shaped podcasting; Shea Simpson from Amazon says that video will continue to evolve; Ellie from Pocket Casts wants to see more podcasters adopting new Podcasting 2.0 features; and slightly worryingly, Megan Lazovick from Edison Research threatens that the Infinite Dial presentation next year might be a musical. We hope she's joking. Tell us she's joking. The full set of guests are available wherever you get your podcasts.
- Dec 18: Looking for new shows to try over the holidays? New Podcasts has plenty, but Greg Wasserman has summarised all the podcast recommendations he's made this year. So have Tink, which has produced the company's Audio Delicacies feature (complete with a playlist on Spotify so they're all in one place).
- Dec 17: Spotify highlighted all the money they spent to promote Wrapped 2025 across the world. No mention of podcasts.
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