The Guardian’s podcasts are now available on Spotify for the first time, offering listeners on mobile devices a new way to access its award-winning audio content.
Listeners will be able to access, download and subscribe to their favourite Guardian podcasts including Football Weekly, Politics Weekly and Chips with Everything, via the Spotify app. Access to Guardian podcasts will be available across the globe in 37 countries.
The Guardian has more than 20 active podcasts and a back catalogue of over 40, covering topics as varied as current affairs, culture, race, identity, sport, politics, science, tech, music and books.
Jason Phipps, head of audio, Guardian News & Media, said: “The Guardian has been producing award-winning podcasts for over a decade, covering a huge range of subject matters. We have a loyal and growing audience but are always looking for ways to reach new listeners so it’s fantastic that our podcasts are now available on Spotify for even more people to discover.”
James Cator, Spotify’s Head of podcasts, EMEA, said: “The Guardian produce many of the most popular and highly-regarded podcasts available worldwide. We are very excited to now be able to now offer them to millions of fans on Spotify.”
The Guardian podcasts can be found simply by searching for ‘Guardian’ in the Spotify search bar on both iOS and Android.
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For more information please contact:
media.enquiries@theguardian.com or 020 3353 3696
Notes to editors
About Guardian News & Media
Guardian News & Media (GNM) publishes theguardian.com, one of the world’s leading English-language newspaper websites. Traffic from outside of the UK now represents around two-thirds of the Guardian’s total digital audience. In the UK, GNM publishes the Guardian newspaper six days a week, first published in 1821, and the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer. The Guardian is renowned for its agenda-setting journalism including, most recently, the Panama Papers investigation as well as the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning NSA revelations.
About Spotify
Spotify is the world’s largest and most successful music streaming service of its kind globally, with more than 100 million active users*, and over 50 million paying subscribers** across 60 markets. Since its launch in Sweden in 2008, Spotify has driven more than US $5bn*** to rights holders and has been largely credited with helping to restore growth to the global music market.
Spotify offers the world’s most personalised music experience, and makes it easier than ever before to consume, discover, and share music with friends, instantly, whenever, and wherever you are.
*As at June 2016
**As at March 2017
*** As at September 2016
