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  • Spotify to launch new Audiobooks feature in April

    Spotify to launch new Audiobooks feature in April

    After bringing music videos to Premium users in select markets, Spotify announced a brand-new feature coming to Audiobooks in April: Countdown Pages.

    This is the same feature that’s been successful for music releases. It allows Spotify users to “pre-save” audiobooks prior to a book’s release date, while authors and publishers can promote their new titles ahead of launch.

    Once an audiobook is pre-saved, a timer countdown will be visible above it until its launch. When the book is actually released, Spotify will notify users so they know they can start listening to it.

    Thanks to Countdown Pages, Spotify users can search for titles on the streaming service as soon as they’re announced. After next month’s update, a “Pre-save” CTA on pages of the books that haven’t been released yet. Additionally, a “More like this” tab will show users similar released book that they can start listening to straight away.

    Countdown Pages for Spotify will be available in all markets where Audiobooks are available beginning in mid-April.

    Since it was released back in 2023, users have played more than 150,000 unique titles through Spotify’s premium service. With a catalog of over 200,000 titles, Spotify believes that there’s room for improvement when it comes to the number of listeners engaging with audiobooks, especially considering that the streaming service has a user base of over 600 million.

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  • Spotify will try to conquer the audiobook market

    Spotify will try to conquer the audiobook market

    Audible, you should start preparing for a serious competition because Spotify is eager to conquer the audiobook market as well. Yes, as the streaming service firmly stated at its Investor Day 2022, from now on, one of its main goals will be to increase its share in the audiobook market.

    Spotify’s CEO, Daniel Ek, stated that the global size of the book market is around $140 billion, with audiobooks having only about a 6%-7% market share. But, in the markets where audiobooks are more popular, they represent around 50% of the market. Also, the audiobook category is growing by 20% every year. This is why, according to Ek, the audiobook industry is an “annual opportunity of $70 billion dollars” for Spotify to expand and “eventually compete for.”

    Nir Zicherman, Spotify’s head of Audiobooks and Gated Content Vertical, stated that an expansion in the audiobook market “presents a really unique opportunity” to “drastically expand” that industry and to “introduce music and podcast listeners around the world to audiobooks.”

    Zicherman added that Spotify will soon be a place where you can buy and listen to your favorite audiobooks directly on the platform. This offering, as he stated, will reach Spotify’s global audience of over 422 million users.

    You can currently listen to audiobooks on Spotify, but until recently, they didn’t seem like that big of a priority for the streaming service. However, in 2021, Spotify purchased the audiobook platform Findaway, implying that it may be considering expanding in that segment as well. The streaming service is convinced that it can not only just grow the audiobook industry but also significantly innovate it and even transform it. As to whether Spotify will be able to do what it says, only time will tell, but it sure sounds promising.

     

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