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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 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.
- Mar 2: Both Buzzsprout and Transistor reported an increase in downloads from Apple Podcasts in January - for Buzzsprout, Apple Podcasts is on a two-year high. Both company’s Spotify figures will be negatively affected when a creator produces video - when Spotify only uses the audio track from the video.
- Feb 27: Threads is continuing to roll out its podcast integration. You may now have access to a place in your profile to add your podcast: it supports links to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. The result looks like this.
- Feb 25: AudioUK has a new CEO - Chris Baughen, who starts at the end of March. He joins from Wondery, Spotify, Global and Deezer.
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