In a long-overdue move, Spotify now shows you how many times a podcast episode has been played.
- Spotify now shows how many times podcast episodes have been played.
- This new metric aims to help users find popular show episodes and to show creators what content is resonating.
- Spotify added five million new Premium subscribers in Q1 of this year, but it still trails YouTube as a podcast platform.
Spotify has been working to make podcasts a bigger part of its platform, even as YouTube continues to lead the space. Now it’s rolling out a small but potentially helpful new metric, letting you see how many times each podcast episode has been played.
As reported by TechCrunch, the new “plays” count appears across the app on episode pages, show pages, and even the home screen. It covers both audio-only and video podcasts, and the numbers are also visible to creators via Spotify for Creators and Megaphone.
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