News: Spotify To Become More Than A Music Streaming Service

Spotify has announced that they will be adding a few new perks to their already successful music streaming service. They will be giving customers the chance to now stream TV shows, original video content, podcasts and radio shows, new discovery tools, and more. Take a look below at what Spotify had to say:

Spotify wants to be the one-stop entertainment OS for your smartphone. The service is augmenting its vast music selection with streaming video, talk radio, podcasts, and improved recommendation AI. If you’re going to pay $10 a month, you might as well have access to everything. It’s a first step toward making video- or music-only streaming services look limited in comparison.

While music remains Spotify’s focus, the service is expanding to add podcasts and radio shows—and these might be the biggest deal-sweetener for many subscribers. They include shows from BBC Worldwide Radio, CBS Radio, Radiolab, This Week In Tech, and The Nerdist. A few new Spotify original audio shows will also be in the mix, including artist-DJ’d playlists, celebrity interviews, and new-music roundups.

The launch video offerings are solid, but don’t cancel your Netflix, Amazon Prime, or HBO Go subscriptions just yet. The streaming service will include clips and full shows from ESPN, Comedy Central, Adult Swim, ABC, NBC, BBC, Vice Media, and Conde Nast Entertainment, among others. Spotify won’t have all the shows from all those partners, but the list is fairly extensive.

With a concentration on short-form clips and TV episodes, the Spotify video offerings look to be more of a rival for Hulu and VOD than movie-streaming services. But like Netflix and Amazon, there will be a few original Spotify video shows. Logically, they’re music-focused, including a “Dance Move of the Day” series hosted by Amy Poehler.