Spotify Suffers Third Major Outage This Month Disrupting Podcast Publishing
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This is Spotify's version of the below timeline. The actual timeline is that "creator reports of episodes not appearing on Spotify" were at 17:31, when I emailed them, before their own alerts fired. I posted the below tweet at 17:35. I hate seeing postmortems change past dates.
Again, I cannot publish new podcast episodes on Spotify. The 3rd major outage in a month. I now have to ask the question: is this because of the increase in AI deployments? And why is there no Spotify status page? Cannot remember this poor reliability for Spotify in... forever. https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2067285989710582271
It took Spotify a month to publish this postmortem (after I offboarded thanks to poor reliability) and they could not get the timeline right, despite me having an email thread with the team that wrote this postmortem... The postmortem: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/7/content-ingestion-and-podcast-video-incident-report
The email I sent to the Spotify Podcasts team at 17:31 UTC (my timezone was UTC+2, hence the 19:31 timestamp) So yes, creator reports did not start to come in from 19:00, but much earlier.