When Spotify announced it paid podcasters over $100 million in the first quarter of 2025, the headline came across like a victory parade. The company positioned the news as a win for creators ...

Play counts have been visible for music tracks on Spotify for years, but this is the first time this metric will be available ...

Spotify is rolling out a Plays feature for podcast, which shows number of listener count directly from the podcast episode ...

Spotify now shows you how many times a podcast has been played, helping you find popular content you might have otherwise ...

The plays will appear next to a podcast episode throughout the app, including the home page, episode page, and show page. It’s also available for creators on Spotify for Creators and Megaphone.

YouTube continues to dominate the podcasting industry, but Spotify is proactively gearing up to close the gap.The Swedish- ...

For the second quarter, Spotify expects to hit 689 million monthly active users, adding 11 million users in the quarter, and ...

In its battle for podcast supremacy, Spotify is adding a new data point to give deeper insight into episode performance. The company is rolling out “Plays,” a publicly visible metric that ...

The payout includes creators on the platform across all formats and agreements, including the biggest podcasts from Joe Rogan ...

Spotify has distributed over $100 million to podcast publishers and creators since January, according to a report published ...

Spotify reported over $100 million paid to podcast creators in Q1 2025, marking its first public disclosure of such figures.