Spotify (SPOT): FY26 Q3 earnings call, Oct 22, 2026

Thu, Oct 22Earnings callSpeaker-labelled transcriptSpotify

On its Oct 22, 2026 earnings call (FY26 Q3), Spotify said 10 of the 16 words Kalshi listed; Parrot’s count agreed with all 16 settlements. Quotes below are at most 25 words each.

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16 words · 10 settled yes · our count agreed on 16 of 16
Listed words: result, our count under the market rule, the count over every speaker, whether they agree, and the probability published before the event
WordResultOur countAll speakersAgreesProbabilityMarket
Retain / Retention Yes77✓93%n=3+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Monetization Yes44✓93%n=3+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
ChatGPT Yes22✓76%n=3+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Message / Messaging Yes22✓63%n=1+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Meta Yes22✓22%n=3+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Churn Yes11✓87%n=3+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Fitness Yes11✓77%n=1+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Claude Yes11✓75%n=1+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Game / Gaming Yes11✓67%n=3+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Headwind Yes11✓56%n=2+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Apple No00✓80%n=3+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Netflix No00✓65%n=3+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Concert No00✓35%n=1+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Physical No00✓32%n=2+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Peloton No00✓28%n=1+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Bookshop / Bookshop.org No00✓21%n=3+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–

Market prices are mid quotes from Kalshi and Polymarket, shown for context, may be delayed by several minutes and are not a signal. Quotes as of Oct 22, 2026 15:41 UTC.

Transcript

quotes of at most 25 words

Speaker-labelled transcript · Source and credits · Used to count words; quotes of at most 25 words.

6 matches for “Playlist”; 5 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Gustav Söderströmcompanyprepared

…you can ask it to mix them together into the perfect running playlist at your exact cadence. But that's not all you can do. You…

Gustav Söderströmcompanyprepared

…a podcast of your own, it's right there. You just save it, playlist it, and it shows up in Spotify in your morning commute. Importantly,…

Gustav Söderströmcompanyprepared

…We've talked a lot about them. Popular features like messaging, Jam, collaborative playlists, and comments. Today I'd like to spend a moment on the interactivity…

Gustav Söderströmcompanyprepared

…out about a year ago, actually. It was good then. It is much better now. Almost 40 million Premium users now listen to mixed playlists.

Bryan Goldbergcompanyprepared

…been for the new features you've launched this year, Taste Profile, Prompted Playlist, et cetera? As the product delivers more value, how do you balance…

Where the listed words were said

Gustav Söderströmcompany“Retain / Retention” · prepared

…our recommendations, and what the Spotify agent can do. Better recommendations strengthen retention over time. It also tells us something encouraging about the future of…

Alex Norströmcompany“Monetization” · prepared

…the world's first global audiobook service. This enhances subscriber lifetime value, add-on monetization, and will benefit Spotify around the world. Gustav will share more about…

Gustav Söderströmcompany“ChatGPT” · prepared

…via another agent. We made a bet that consumers using services like ChatGPT would also start demanding intelligence from their media service. We built for…

Christian Luigacompany“Message / Messaging” · prepared

…in quarter 1. There's no news on that, and I think it's a quite clear message, and we work very opportunistically in how we invest.

Gustav Söderströmcompany“Meta” · prepared

This was also the case with Meta Ray-Bans, OpenAI's Dots, and we were the only media service integrated into Meta's Muse at launch. The list…

Bryan Goldbergcompany“Churn” · prepared

…that go unused. If the agent owns the relationship, what keeps Spotify from becoming an interchangeable back-end pipe? Is churn from agents a real risk?

Bryan Goldbergcompany“Fitness” · prepared

…quarter, there are many new product rollouts from Audiobooks+ globally to Reserved Fitness and the expanded Spotify Partner Program, Taste Profile in the U.S. et…

Bryan Goldbergcompany“Claude” · prepared

…that you have had nearly one year of deploying new tools like Claude Code, could you talk about your view on AI ROI and how…

Gustav Söderströmcompany“Game / Gaming” · prepared

…Spotify very easy to integrate across speakers, something called the eSDK. TVs, gaming consoles, and other devices. That investment turned the growth of the connected…

Gustav Söderströmcompany“Headwind” · prepared

…really turning the growth of agents into a tailwind rather than a headwind. That is exactly what we are seeing now. We are seeing really…

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