Spotify’s Prompted Playlists can help you find new podcasts to listen to

The Verge / 4/8/2026

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Key Points

  • Spotify has expanded its Prompted Playlists feature to include podcasts, aiming to help Premium users discover new shows using text prompts.
  • The feature uses prompts to steer recommendations toward specific genres or themes, previously working only for music before this update.
  • Spotify says the podcast version is still in beta and is currently limited to English and available for Premium users in the U.S. and Canada (with additional regions not confirmed in the excerpt).
  • By applying an AI-guided playlist approach to podcasts, Spotify is likely to improve personalization and reduce the friction of finding niche podcast content.
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On Tuesday, Spotify expanded its Prompted Playlists feature to include podcasts, an update that could make it easier for Premium users to find new shows to listen to. Prompted Playlists were originally launched as a beta feature in December, but previously only worked for music. You can use the feature to effectively generate customized Discover Weekly playlists using text prompts to "steer the algorithm" toward specific genres or themes.

Tuesday's update allows you to do the same thing with playlists of podcast episodes. The feature is still in beta, though, and is currently only available in English for Premium users in the U.S., Canada …

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