3 min learnNew DelhiMight 27, 2026 11:10 AM IST
Spotify, on Tuesday, Might 26, introduced a brand new characteristic permitting customers to stream narrated journal articles on its platform. The transfer comes as the corporate continues to develop its audio choices past music and podcasts. The characteristic goals to make long-form journalism accessible in an audio format for listeners preferring consuming tales whereas commuting or multitasking.
Spotify mentioned the brand new options, referred to as ‘Articles’, will deliver narrated variations of journal tales from a number of main publishers to Spotify customers.
The corporate has added greater than 650 English-language articles from publications together with Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Selection, Billboard, Vibe, GQ, WIRED, Self-importance Truthful, and Pitchfork.
Every narrated article is beneath two hours and is produced by Spotify’s in-house workforce. Premium customers will have the ability to entry the articles as a part of their month-to-month audiobook allowance alongside their present audiobook library. Totally free customers, a cost of $1.99 have to be made to buy particular person articles.
The music streaming platform mentioned the transfer is aimed toward giving customers a extra versatile technique to devour long-form content material. The corporate additionally famous that shorter narrated articles may act as an entry level for listeners who could later discover longer-form audio content material.
“With Articles, we’re introducing long-form journalism in audio as a pure extension of the music, podcasts, and audiobooks folks already come to Spotify for, centered on subjects we all know they love,” mentioned Colleen Prendergast, Licensing Lead at Spotify Audiobooks.
“By making Rolling Stone’s journalism extra accessible on Spotify, we’re excited to deliver our storytelling to an excellent wider viewers,” mentioned Julian Holguin, CEO of Rolling Stone, who described the collaboration as a “pure synergy” between the 2 platforms.
Story continues beneath this advert
Spotify believes its discovery and personalisation options might help media publishers and journal companions to attach with listeners probably to interact with their content material.
The characteristic additionally displays Spotify’s broader push into AI-driven content material. In latest weeks, the corporate rolled out AI-generated podcasts and AI-powered audiobook creation instruments for authors, assist for AI covers and remixes, in addition to non-AI additions similar to fitness-focused content material.
(This text has been curated by Shivani P Menon, who’s an intern with The Indian Specific)
© IE On-line Media Companies Pvt Ltd