Spotify adds AI podcast playlists built from a text prompt

On April 7, 2026, Spotify extended Prompted Playlists to podcasts: Premium subscribers in the US and Canada can now get podcast episode playlists from a text prompt, not just music playlists.

How prompt-based playlist generation works

Prompted Playlists first appeared in December 2025 as a beta feature and initially worked only with music. Users enter a text prompt to "steer the algorithm" toward a specific genre or topic, and Spotify builds a personalized playlist modeled on its own Discover Weekly format, a weekly set of recommendations. The April 7, 2026 update applies the same principle to podcasts: the same kind of text prompt can now produce a playlist of episodes on a chosen topic, not just tracks.

"Steering the algorithm" toward specific genres or topics is how

Spotify describes the way text prompts work in Prompted Playlists.

Before this update, Prompted Playlists had been a music-only tool for almost four months, and the podcast expansion is the first step beyond that category since the feature launched in December 2025. Discover Weekly, the format Prompted Playlists is modeled on, is Spotify's own weekly recommendation playlist, which the service generates automatically from listening history. Text prompts add manual control over the theme of the playlist.

Who can use it now

The podcast version of Prompted Playlists is still in beta, and Spotify has limited access to English-speaking Premium subscribers in the US and Canada. The company announced it on its Spotify Newsroom blog on April 7, 2026, without saying when the feature will reach other languages, free users or subscribers in other countries.

• The update launched on April 7, 2026
• Prompted Playlists first launched in December 2025, for music only
• The podcast version is available only in beta
• The feature works only in English, for Premium subscribers in the US and Canada
• The user describes a genre or topic in text, and Spotify assembles a playlist of episodes

What this means

Spotify is bringing to podcasts the same text-prompt personalization that has worked for music for almost four months. It extends content discovery beyond algorithmic recommendations built solely on listening history. Access is still limited to a beta, one language and two countries, but the direction shows where the service is taking podcast discovery: instead of browsing a catalog by hand, users describe in words what they want to hear.

Frequently asked questions

How much does access to

Prompted Playlists for podcasts cost?

The feature is built into the Spotify Premium subscription, and the company has not announced a separate fee for it. Access is currently limited to English-speaking Premium subscribers in the US and Canada; the feature is not yet available in other countries or on the free tier.

When did Prompted Playlists launch?

Spotify first launched Prompted Playlists in December 2025 as a beta feature for music playlists. It added the podcast version almost four months later, on April 7, 2026, announcing it on its Spotify Newsroom blog.