Think Spotify’s podcast algorithm isn’t good enough and doesnt understand what you actually want? Well, now you can just build your own! 💚🎧
A while ago we rolled out Prompted Playlists, where you can write your own ”algorithm” for what you want, in plain English. So if you wanted a playlist of ”My favorite genres, but only stuff I never heard before” you can now do that, or ”stuff in my taste that is up and coming but not mainstream yet” or ”songs trending in TV shows right now, and tell me from which show and episode on each track” or why not ”always give me the songs from the latest episode of Landman”? 😉
You can schedule the playlists to update daily, weekly etc to keep you up to date, and you get an explanation for why each tracking there.
People really love this feature. But a very common request has been why they couldn’t do the same for their podcast…. So now you can!
If you want a daily or weekly updating list of podcasts on a certain super niche topic, just ask for it! If you don’t want full episodes, then ask for only chapters instead. If you want any new episode in the last week or month with a certain guest, just ask for it, or why not just ”The recent TBPN clips about Topic X. Or if you’re an AI nerd like me maybe ”Give me the best explanation of the transformers attention mechanism, just relevant chapters” 🤓
It’s a great way to explore the depth and niches of the catalog and also to break out of your own taste if you feel trapped in it, just say ”….only shows I’ve never listened to before”
And finally, the one you should all try - just because it’s so fun.
”What are the first tracks I ever listened to on Spotify? Order them from the very first track I ever streamed - with date and time - and keep going.”
Give it try!