Spotify: A Product Story
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
10: In pursuit of the perfect session - a DJ just for you
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back! And today we dig into Spotify’s AI DJ. Since its inception, radio provided a music format that was convenient and simple, but far from...
Explained: The conspiracy to make AI seem harder than it is! by Gustav Söderström
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2023 may be a year that people still speak about 100 years from now, the year computers passed the Turing test! You know what these things can do, but...
09: Building the future of audio
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What’s Spotify up to next? Tune in to the season finale to hear about Spotify’s plans for the future of audio and the brand new formats that we’...
08: When to build vs buy - and when to open source
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of Backstage -- a “platform of platforms”, built by Spotify and open to anyone as open source software. Tune in to hear insights...
07: Spotify’s podcast bet
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you go “from zero to one”? In this episode, you’ll learn how Spotify managed to enter a market late: a market that was already dominated ...
06: Hardware is hard
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode you’ll learn about Spotify’s journey into the painful complicated world of hardware. You’ll hear how we worked our way down to t...
05: When your winning bet becomes your losing bet
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is especially geared towards CEOs/CTOs that have to "kill their darlings" and make hard choices. Listen to Google employee number 8 - and...
04: Human vs Machine
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Will AI truly replace us humans when it comes to music? Listen to machine learning (ML) legend Andrew Ng and Spotify insiders on what it really means ...
03: This party is going to end
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode tells the story of how Spotify went into negative growth and nearly didn’t survive to it’s 5th birthday as the world around us sudden...
02: How do you charge for nothing?
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we tackle how Spotify went from being a popular free desktop app - but that nobody paid for - to being a mobile app that people actual...
01: How do you steal from a pirate?
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story behind Spotify’s first product -- the desktop app. We explore how the first iteration of Spotify came to be, and identify the four...
00: The most epic battle in music history
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is where the Spotify product story begins. In this episode, we dive into the world that set the stage for Spotify and the streaming music revolut...
Introducing Spotify: A Product Story
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Product lessons from Spotify's past and future, hosted by Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström.