Spotify had a flagship occasion final evening the place it introduced a ton of latest stuff together with launches in new international locations, instruments for creators, and new podcasts.
A whole lot of that has to do with musicians and podcasters, however what can listeners anticipate from the corporate within the firm within the coming years? Let’s check out its large plans.
Launch in 80+ extra international locations
In the previous few years, Spotify has launched its service in new international locations, together with India and South Korea. Now, the corporate is increasing its presence in additional than 80 new international locations that cowl greater than 1 billion folks. Spotify can be including 36 languages as a part of the method. New areas embody Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Caribbean, Cameroon, Rwanda, and Namibia.
Spotify HiFi
There are only a few choices if you wish to stream songs at a lossless high quality like Tidal and Deezer. Now, Spotify is getting into this house by introducing Spotify HiFi in choose markets to premium subscribers. The corporate says it’ll ship music in a “ CD-quality, lossless audio format.” The streaming service can be partnering with speaker producers to stream high-fidelity music via its Spotify Join wi-fi tech.
Anchor will convert textual content to podcasts in WordPress
Final yr, I used Podcastle to transform articles to podcasts and hearken to them whereas working. The corporate’s long-term objective is to let folks use the product to transform their posts to audio. Now, Spotify-owned Anchor is tying up with WordPress to remodel your weblog’s posts into podcasts. This may assist guests devour content material out of your weblog whereas doing different duties.
Video podcasts and Q&A in podcasts
Prior to now couple of years, Spotify has made large bets within the podcasts house with acquisitions resembling the creation platform Anchor and studios like Gimlet Media. To make these podcasts extra interactive, introducing an possibility for creators to host polls and Q&A periods. The corporate is inviting a few of them to check these instruments in early entry. Anchor will use its tech to transform textual content to transform WordPress posts in audio.
Along with this, you’ll see extra video podcasts within the app later this yr.
With that, Spotify is about to supply a way more well-rounded listening expertise to subscribers within the coming years and dominate the audio world. You’ll be able to try every part the corporate introduced yesterday here.
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Printed February 23, 2021 — 08:08 UTC
