Overview
- Spotify added podcasts to its AI Prompted Playlist feature Tuesday, rolling it out in English to Premium users in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden.
- The system builds playlists from a short text prompt, your listening history, and live signals such as trends, charts, and current events.
- Users can edit prompts at any time, choose how often playlists refresh—daily, weekly, or not at all—and see a short note on each episode explaining why it was picked.
- Spotify says more than 34 million podcasts are discovered for the first time each week on its platform, and it pitches this feature as a new path for creators’ back catalogs and new episodes to find listeners.
- The feature remains in beta with usage limits, and early tests show it may pull random episodes for some series, which listeners can address by adding instructions like “start with first episodes” to the prompt.