Spotify Stream On event highlights: Over the next few days, Spotify will be expanded to 80 new markets worldwide

The first two episode of Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen’s new podcast are now out of Spotify

Over the next few days, Spotify will be expanded to 80 new markets worldwide

In the next few months, Spotify will be rolling out a new beta feature via Anchor called “Paid Podcast Content”

This will give podcasters new ways to monetise their content. You can sign up for the beta on blog.anchor.fm/streamon.

Spotify Ad Studio will now also include podcasts starting with originals, exclusive content

This will eventually be extended to third-party podcasts.

Spotify announced ‘Spotify Audience Network’, “where advertisers can buy across a network of original, exclusive and independent podcasts”

This tool is aimed at bringing bringing creators and advertisers closer. 

On Spotify, “57,000 artists represent 90 monthly streams”: that’s a 4x increased in 6 years

In last 4 years, over 82 percent recording artists catalogues generated over $1 million a year across recording and publishing. 

In 2021, Spotify for Artists will be available in 25 new languages

In the US, Spotify will soon allow teams on the platform to book campaign easily through the ‘Marquee Campaign’ feature

Spotify library includes over 70 million tracks, 4.5 billion playlists, and over 2 million podcasts

Spotify’s chief R&D officer says that every hour over 50,000 hours of content is uploaded on the platform.

Spotify will soon also rollout interactive features like polls and Q&As

Spotify will soon also allow creators to add video to podcasts

Spotify announces partnership with WordPress that will let new creators turn their written content directly into podcasts

This creator tool is available starting today.

“Future formats of audio”

Spotify lets creators curate songs from the platform’s music catalogue directly into their podcast. For listeners, they are able to use this feature to discover and find new music they hear in this episodes.

In 2020, 8 out of evert 10 new podcast on Spotify was created using Anchor

Spotify is also partnering with Warner Brothers to bring DC universe to life in audio

Avengers: Endgame directors’ AGBO production company signs multi-year podcast deal with Spotify

The directors will produce several series for Spotify.

Spotify SoundUp is being expanded from six to 14 countries, including India

SoundUp aims at diversity and help push voices of budding podcasters

Spotify now has over 2 million podcasts 

The platform saw an increase of 1,500% podcasts in last 3 years

Spotify SoundBetter is a new tool announced which will let creators hire other music production professionals 

Spotify will be launching a new subscription offering called Spotify HiFi later this year

Spotify recently released the Songwriter Hub on the platform for better discovery

Spotify to soon rollout Instagram Stories-like feature called Spotify Clips

Spotify is already testing this feature with select users in select regions.

Artists like BlackPink, Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift users Spotify’s Enhanced Album feature in 2020

With Radar, Spotify says it help emerge 175 artists around the world in 2020

In 2020, Spotify added 76,000 artists to its playlists for the very first time.

Daniel Ek says over the next few days Spotify’s global footprint will be aggresilvely increased so as to make it available to over a billion people around the world

Spotify’s ‘mission’: