Spotify’s prompted playlist feature will now work for podcasts, too

Spotify said contiguous that it is expanding its AI-powered diagnostic to make playlists, called Prompted Playlist, to see podcasts arsenic well.

The institution started investigating the Prompted Playlists diagnostic successful New Zealand precocious past year with a absorption connected creating music-based lists. This year, the institution launched the diagnostic successful caller geographies, including the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden.

Now, the beta diagnostic volition alteration premium users successful each these markets to make AI-aided playlists for podcasts successful English. Users tin pat connected “Create” and prime the “Prompted Playlists” enactment to get started and adhd a punctual specified arsenic “Make a playlist of True Crime podcasts I would beryllium funny in. Add highly rated bid I mightiness person missed, particularly ones afloat of twists and turns.”

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Users tin besides prime the frequence astatine which the playlists are updated, with options including daily, play (with a enactment of days), and doesn’t update. The institution said that erstwhile a peculiar occurrence is added to your playlist, it volition transportation a abbreviated enactment indicating wherefore it was included successful your list.

“Podcast fans are ever looking for their adjacent large listen. Prompted Playlist makes find consciousness effortless and personal. For creators, it unlocks almighty caller opportunities for discovery, bringing some backmost catalog and caller episodes to audiences who are actively signaling what they privation to hear,” Lizzy Hale, Spotify’s Global Head of Podcast Editorial, said successful a statement.

Spotify noted that much than 34 cardinal podcasts are discovered for the archetypal clip each week connected Spotify. The institution is leaning into aiding much podcast find with this caller AI-powered feature. It said that users mightiness spot Prompted Playlists created by Spotify’s civilization squad connected their location screen, which tin beryllium easy customized by tweaking the prompt.

The audio streaming institution has been making tweaks to its level to beryllium much podcast-friendly. Earlier this year, it lowered the criteria for monetization for video podcasts. Under the caller rules, creators request to person 3 published podcasts, 2,000 depletion hours implicit the anterior 30 days, and astatine slightest 1,000 engaged listeners implicit the past 30 days. During its Q4 2025 net telephone successful February, co-CEO Alex Norström said that determination were implicit 530,000 video podcasts connected the platform.