Spotify’s Prompted Playlists can help you find new podcasts to listen to
Premium users can now create custom podcast 'Discover Weekly' playlists using natural language prompts.
Spotify has significantly upgraded its AI-powered Prompted Playlists feature, extending its capabilities from music to podcasts. The update, currently in beta for Premium subscribers in English-speaking markets like the US, UK, and Australia, allows users to generate custom playlists of podcast episodes using natural language text prompts. This effectively creates a personalized "Discover Weekly" for podcasts, where users can steer the algorithm toward specific themes, genres, or even request formats like "first episodes" of serialized shows.
In practice, the AI takes a few minutes to generate a playlist, which includes brief AI-written descriptions for each episode. Early testing shows it can effectively mix popular series like Critical Role with lesser-known gems based on a user's prompt. A key strength is its editability; users can refine their initial prompt or manually edit the generated playlist to better suit their needs, such as specifying chronological listening order. The playlists can also be set to refresh daily or weekly, providing a steady stream of new discovery.
- Generates custom podcast playlists from text prompts for Spotify Premium users in beta.
- Allows for prompt refinement and manual editing to fix issues like non-chronological episodes.
- Currently available in English in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden.
Why It Matters
It transforms passive podcast discovery into an active, query-driven process, helping users efficiently surface niche content and sample new shows.