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Spotify runs the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service, offering music, podcasts and audiobooks to 751 million users across 184 markets.

Spotify operates the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service, providing legal, on-demand access to music, podcasts and audiobooks. Founded in 2006 and launched as a service in 2008, the company now reaches 751 million total users, including 290 million subscribers, across 184 markets worldwide.

The engineering agenda spans audio streaming, digital media delivery, content recommendation and discovery, large-scale platform engineering, and digital rights and anti-piracy. Technical leaders work against catalogues of over 100 million music tracks, 7 million podcast titles and 500,000 audiobooks, delivered to a global user base on a continuous basis.

Products comprise the core Spotify music streaming platform, Spotify Podcasts and Spotify Audiobooks, which together cover music, spoken-word and book content within a single service. The company states a mission of unlocking the potential of human creativity by giving creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and fans the chance to enjoy and be inspired by it, with an emphasis on legal alternatives to music piracy and on connections between artists and listeners.

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