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Spotify

Spotify, founded in 2006, is an audio streaming subscription service for music, podcasts and audiobooks, reaching 751 million users across 184 markets.

Spotify is the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service, offering music, podcasts, and audiobooks. Founded in 2006 with origins in providing legal, anti-piracy alternatives for music access, the company now reaches 751 million users, including 290 million subscribers, across 184 markets worldwide.

Its offering spans three main catalogues: Spotify Music Streaming, with more than 100 million tracks; Spotify Podcasts, with 7 million titles; and Spotify Audiobooks, with 500,000 titles. Technical work centres on audio streaming, digital content delivery, media distribution, and recommendation and content discovery systems built to serve those catalogues at scale.

Spotify states its mission as unlocking the potential of human creativity, with a stated goal of giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art. The company describes its work as connecting artists and listeners through meaningful experiences, with an emphasis on creativity, discovery, and inspiration.

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