GoKawiilAs Spotify users around the world await the return of their good old fashioned app icon, the company has announced new ways to stream more than just music.
Starting today, Spotify now includes audio versions of long-form magazine articles from major publications. The feature is included with limits for Premium subscribers, or Spotify users can purchase individual articles for $1.99/each.
Spotify already brings together listeners’ favorite music, podcasts, and audiobooks in one place. Now, we’re trialing a new format that expands the content available on our platform: narrated Articles.
Spotify says it has curated more than 650 long-form magazine articles. This includes articles “from publications including Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety, Billboard, Vibe, GQ, WIRED, Vanity Fair, and Pitchfork.”
Audio versions of magazine articles are produced by the Spotify Audiobooks team with English language supported at launch.
“We see Articles as a natural extension of the audio people already come to Spotify for,” the company says. “And through Spotify’s discovery and personalization features, media publishers and magazine partners can bring stories directly to listeners who are most likely to be excited about their content.”
The news follows a collection of Spotify announcements last week. For example, Spotify will let subscribers remix and cover songs on the platform.
Now back to monitoring the situation as it relates to Spotify’s controversial-but-temporary disco ball app icon…