Unfortunately, users from around the world had to wait another two months to subscribe to Spotify podcasts that needed a subscription. We plan to expand internationally very soon: Starting on September 15, international listeners will gain access to subscriber-only content, and shortly after we’ll make the feature available to creators around the world-so stay tuned. Podcast Subscriptions will continue to evolve and grow as we learn from creators who succeed with this model. The feature launched earlier this year to select creators, and in August, Spotify announced that it is expanding the platform to all US podcasters. Next week, Canada, Germany, Austria, and France will gain support.īack in April, Spotify announced that it would counter Apple’s new Podcasts Subscriptions platform with its own support for allowing creators to offer subscriptions to their shows. Instead, the expansion is just about bringing podcast subscriptions to more people.Īpart from the US, here are all the countries that now feature the Podcast subscription feature on Spotify: Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Yahoo! Finance notes:Īs the service rolls out globally, Spotify isn’t introducing any new features, it says. Spotify announced today that it’s launching support for podcast subscriptions outside the US in at least 33 new markets worldwide.Īs spotted by Yahoo! Finance, creators around the world will now be able to mark episodes as “subscribers-only” content.

Spotify plans podcast subscriptions