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Prohovnik: Spotify Holds Over One-Third of Global Podcast Listening Market Share
“I think we are now officially over a third of global market share of podcast listening, which is pretty insane.”
Maya Prohovnik Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 5:37 Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Head of Podcast Product)
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Changuel: Discover Weekly Succeeded Because a Bug Injected Familiar Songs
“All the metrics. Exactly. Like all the metrics, all the success metrics of the feature was going down. So they quickly realized that actually what users really liked in the Discover Weekly was not the fact that it was completely new, but this familiarity that …”
Nesrine Changuel Sep 28, 2025 ▶ 44:19 A 4-step framework for building delightful products | Nesrine Changuel (Spotify, Google, Skype)
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Spotify's 2024 layoff memo targeted teams doing 'work around the work'
“The message that Daniel Ek from Spotify sent out with their layoffs in twenty-twenty-four said, we still have too many teams doing work around the work and supporting work rather than focusing on opportunities with real impact.”
Matt LeMay Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 9:13 The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay
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Prohovnik: Over 75% of New Shows on Spotify Use Spotify for Podcasters
“So I think at this point it's more than 75% of all new shows on Spotify are hosted with Spotify for podcasters, which used to be Anchor.”
Maya Prohovnik Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 5:53 Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Head of Podcast Product)
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Prohovnik: Anchor Hosted ~40% of New Podcasts When Acquired by Spotify
“When we were acquired by Spotify, I think Anchor had already gotten to like 40% of all new podcasts or something crazy.”
Maya Prohovnik Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 6:02 Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Head of Podcast Product)
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Spotify has over 500 million monthly active listeners
“We have five hundred million, more than five hundred million monthly active listeners.”
Maya Prohovnik Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 59:58 Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Head of Podcast Product)
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Spotify tested listening parties over the past year
“And then other things we've been looking at have been listening parties. We ran a few of those over the past year.”
Camille Hearst Aug 20, 2023 ▶ 6:28 Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst
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