SPOTIFY ANNOUNCES PAID PODCAST SUBSCRIPTION

Spotify has announced the rollout of paid podcast subscriptions which will allow creators to attract listeners who are willing to pay for bonus content. Through

Spotify’s podcast creation tool Anchor, podcasters will be able to mark select episodes as subscriber-only content, then publish them to Spotify and other platforms.

The service was initially tested with a dozen independent creators and is now expanding to creators who had previously registered for the waitlist. For the time being, Spotify is only opening up paid subscriptions to creators in the U.S., but it aims to expand internationally in the months ahead.