This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. It’s that time of year again, when all your friends share their Spotify Wrapped and you (read: ...

I was an early adopter of podcasts, and some of my earliest subscriptions go way back to 2005, when I got my first iPod. While my love affair with iTunes and iPods continued much longer, I ...

Spotify Wrapped is here, making us take a good hard look at who we really are as music fans. Whether you’re shocked by your ...

It’s a cliché at this point to say that podcasts (and, to a less publicized extent, audiobooks) have a discovery problem. To help fix that, Spotify announced it’s using Google Cloud’s AI ...

When a thrilling moment occurs on the world stage — be it a major sporting event, an unexpected scandal or the release of a much-hyped movie expected to smash box office records — it usually ...

“Spotify Wrapped 2023, brought to you by the Burlington, VT Board of Tourism,” someone joked on X, formerly known as Twitter.

There are a lot of things to get excited about this time of year — Thanksgiving, holiday gifts, New Year's parties and especially finding out what artists topped your Spotify Wrapped list.

Spotify Wrapped 2023 is getting very close – growing hype from Spotify itself, plus the feature's historical release dates, suggest it could be here within days. If you're a fan of the musical ...

Spotify's Q3 results show slowing growth in premium revenue and a decline in ARPU, but strong subscriber growth driven by international markets. Ad-supported revenue accelerated in the quarter ...