Setting up a membership

As of October 20th, 2026, Podcast Subscriptions have become Memberships. Read more about the changes here.

With Memberships, you can offer member-only episodes and benefits to your audience for a monthly fee.

Eligibility

To set up a membership, you need:

• At least 3 published episodes
• At least 100 consumption hours on Spotify in the last 30 days
• At least 100 listeners or viewers on Spotify in the last 30 days

Note: If you previously used Podcast Subscriptions, you will continue to have eligibility for Memberships. Updated eligibility criteria applies to shows created starting October 20th, 2026.

Memberships are currently available to creators and fans in the following countries or regions:

Want to join a membership as a listener? Learn how to become a member

When you set up a membership, you’ll need to agree to the Memberships terms.

Setting up Memberships

1. Go to Memberships.
2. On the Details step, create up to 3 membership tiers with benefits and prices. You can also sync an existing free version of your show with your membership-enabled show, enable free trials, or upload a welcome clip to thank new members.
3. On the Payouts step, click Set up payouts.
4. Set up your Stripe account. Have your tax and banking info on hand.
5. On the Episodes step, choose the episodes for each tier. You can change these at any time.
6. Click Launch.

To manage your membership after launch, find Memberships and then click on the Manage tab.

If you’ve set up Podcast Subscriptions previously, you can make use of new features in the Memberships offering by adding tiers and more.

Tip: If you have a free version of your show on another feed, add it under Sync your feeds so both shows appear together on Spotify.

Tiers

You can offer up to 3 tiers in your membership. Each tier has its own price, name, description, and benefits. If this is your first time offering member content, you may want to keep it simple and start with a single tier (you can always add more later).

When you launch, we set prices in other currencies based on the current exchange rate. These prices stay the same until you change your tier price.

Benefits

You can offer these benefits and choose which tiers get each one:

You can change your benefits at any time for any tier.

New members get the benefits you choose, your welcome clip (if you add one), and a member badge that appears every time they comment so they can show their dedicated fan status.

Automatically remove ads

If you earn from ads, you can offer eligible members fewer Spotify-inserted ads.

Select Fewer ads as a member benefit and toggle “Automatically remove ads from all your episodes for members.” This allows your fans to hear all your episodes without any Spotify-inserted ads on Spotify (Sponsorships will not be removed).

Publish once to everyone, include your ad cue points, and we’ll automatically remove Spotify-inserted ads for your members.

Earnings

Your earnings data, as well as your general membership performance data are available in the Memberships page, under the Performance tab.

Estimated earnings data is shown in USD.

View this article for all information about your earnings and analytics

Managing Memberships

View this article for all information about managing your membership