Spotify’s Audiobooks will get their very private ‘Countdown Pages’ to tease upcoming new releases

Spotify is enhancing its audiobooks streaming service with a attribute that may be acquainted to the app’s music customers: Countdown Pages. These YouTube-like Countdown Pages were launched alongside utterly completely different new additions for Spotify’s artists closing yr, providing a trustworthy house on artists’ profiles the place a timer might rely all the easiest way proper all the way down to a mannequin new launch. Now, that very same likelihood shall be accessible to audiobook publishers and authors, the corporate launched for the time being on the London E ebook Reliable.

For audiobooks, the Countdown Pages will permit Spotify’s prospects to pre-save books forward of their launch. When the data turns into accessible, Spotify will alert the patrons by a notification. With this new likelihood, publishers and authors will doubtless be succesful to promote their info before its launch, gathering curiosity all through the upcoming title — hundreds as they’ll for the time being on utterly completely different websites like Amazon, the place books may be pre-ordered.

Plus, when prospects go to the Countdown Internet internet web page to keep away from losing quite a few a title, they’ll be succesful to faucet on a “Extra Like This” tab to see related, nonetheless already launched, books that they’re going to hear to instantly. This might fast further adoption of audiobooks regular.

Forward 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 occasion. Since then, higher than 80% of individuals utilizing the pre-save attribute would stream the mannequin new launch inside the first week, on widespread.

The Countdown Pages for books will flip into accessible in mid-April, Spotify talked about.

The corporate furthermore geared up an alternate on its audiobooks service’s utilization, noting that “a lot of of lots of” of buyers have now listened to higher than 150,000 titles on the platform since its launch. In full, the service provides a catalog of over 200,000 audiobook titles. With the addition of the mannequin new Countdown Pages attribute, Spotify hopes to develop the service’s adoption further by tapping into its bigger 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 all through 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 another 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 could also be found, together with the U.S., U.Okay., Australia, Canada, Eire and New Zealand.