Spotify Results Presentation Deck
Key Highlights
Accelerating user growth
and consistent subscriber
performance
MAUS grew 19% Y/Y to 433 million,
5 million above guidance. Net
additions of 19 million¹ represented
our largest ever Q2 growth
MAU strength was led by
successful marketing campaigns in
Rest of World, reactivations in
Europe and Gen Z strength in Latin
America
Premium Subscribers grew 14%
Y/Y to 188 million2, above our
guidance, aided by promotional
intake and household plans
Spotify
23% Y/Y Revenue growth,
led by Advertising
Total Revenue grew 23% Y/Y
to €2.9 billion
Premium Revenue grew 22% Y/Y
to €2.5 billion
Ad-Supported Revenue grew 31%
Y/Y to €360 million, reaching an
all-time high as a percent of Total
Revenue at 13% for Q2
Gross Margin finished at 25.3%³
excluding Car Thing charge and
accrual benefits (or 24.6% on an as
reported basis)
Optimizing capital allocation
for long-term value creation
Accelerating expansion into
audiobooks with the closing of the
Findaway acquisition on June 15th
and pioneering the creation of new
user experiences with the
announced acquisition of Sonantic
Announced intention to reduce
hiring growth for the back half of
2022 by 25% and monitoring
macroeconomic conditions
1 Excludes the effects of our exit from Russia and the brief service outage benefit we experienced in March.
2 Inclusive of approximately 600k disconnects arising from the closure of our Russian operations.
³ Adjusted Gross Margin is a non-IFRS measure. See "Use of Non-IFRS Measures" and "Reconciliation of IFRS to Non-IFRS Results" for additional information.
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