Spotify’s Audiobooks will get their very personal ‘Countdown Pages’ to tease upcoming new releases
Spotify is enhancing its audiobooks streaming service with a attribute that might be acquainted to the app’s music consumers: Countdown Pages. These YouTube-like Countdown Pages were launched alongside completely different new additions for Spotify’s artists closing yr, offering a faithful home on artists’ profiles the place a timer would possibly rely all the best way right down to a model new launch. Now, that exact same chance shall be accessible to audiobook publishers and authors, the company launched at the moment on the London E book Trustworthy.
For audiobooks, the Countdown Pages will allow Spotify’s prospects to pre-save books ahead of their launch. When the information turns into accessible, Spotify will alert the shoppers by a notification. With this new chance, publishers and authors will likely be succesful to advertise their information sooner than its launch, gathering curiosity throughout the upcoming title — loads as they are going to at the moment on completely different web sites like Amazon, the place books might be pre-ordered.
Plus, when prospects go to the Countdown Net web page to avoid wasting numerous a title, they’ll be succesful to faucet on a “Additional Like This” tab to see associated, nevertheless already launched, books that they are going to hear to immediately. This would possibly quick extra adoption of audiobooks normal.
Ahead of its enlargement to audiobooks, Countdown Pages had been utilized by artists like Taylor Swift, Karol G, Florence and the Machine, Paramore and the Jonas Brothers — the latter who launched the attribute lastly yr’s Spotify’s press event. Since then, better than 80% of people using the pre-save attribute would stream the model new launch inside the primary week, on widespread.
The Countdown Pages for books will flip into accessible in mid-April, Spotify talked about.
The company moreover equipped an exchange on its audiobooks service’s utilization, noting that “lots of of hundreds” of shoppers have now listened to better than 150,000 titles on the platform since its launch. In full, the service supplies a catalog of over 200,000 audiobook titles. With the addition of the model new Countdown Pages attribute, Spotify hopes to develop the service’s adoption extra by tapping into its larger worldwide shopper base of over 600 million listeners.
Spotify first launched that audiobooks would become a part of its Premium subscription in late 2022, with preliminary launches throughout the U.Okay. and Australia, followed by the U.S. and Canada and elsewhere. With a Spotify subscription, prospects can stream 15 hours of audiobooks per thirty days. In some other case, Spotify’s free prospects can now resolve into a standalone audiobooks subscription for $9.99 per month, which debuted earlier this month.
Countdown pages for audiobooks will launch in all markets the place Spotify’s audiobooks may be discovered, along with the U.S., U.Okay., Australia, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand.
