Spotify Suffers Widespread Outage Affecting Tens of Thousands of Users

The story so far

2 publishers have covered this in 2 articles since 29 Sept 2026. CNET published first, on 29 September at 15:07 UTC; Quartz followed 2h 23m later. The most recent article, from Quartz, appeared on 29 September at 17:30 UTC.

Outlets reporting it: CNET, Quartz.

2 prediction markets price this story:

• Above 800 million — the market puts it at 97%, closing 31 Mar 2028. The market resolves to Yes if Spotify Technology S.A. reports having more than 800 million total monthly active users in 2026. It resolves to No if the company does not report that figure. Readers often mistake the linked news story about a service outage for the relevant metric, but only the official user count matters.
• Above 328 million — the market puts it at 2%, closing 31 Mar 2028. The market resolves to Yes if Spotify Technology S.A. reports having more than 328 million premium subscribers in 2026. It resolves to No if the company reports 328 million or fewer subscribers during that year. Readers often mistake the date of a temporary service outage for the deadline, but only the official subscriber count reported by Spotify matters.

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