The annual rankings of the most-listened titles in BookBeat’s markets during 2025 are now ready. This year’s most-listened book across all BookBeat markets was the German translation of the international hit Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros.
On November 30, 2015, the BookBeat app became available in the App Store and on Google Play, allowing the first Swedish users to start listening to audiobooks. Ten years later, BookBeat operates in ten countries and is approaching 1.2 million users who, over the past decade, have listened to 1.3 billion hours of audiobooks.
Audiobook service BookBeat continues its strong growth in both established and new markets. During the first nine months of the year, revenues increased by 14 percent, driven by a record-high influx of new users, particularly in Sweden and Poland.
During her visit to the Gothenburg Bookfair, author Julia Quinn will be awarded the international honorary prize “BookBeat Outstanding Author Award”, a newly established, data-driven prize presented by BookBeat to authors whose works have made an exceptional impact among the service’s 1.1 million listeners and readers in Sweden and internationally.
The sun is out, the deckchairs are calling, and for many Brits, there’s no better companion during a summer break than a gripping audiobook. Summer is when BookBeat sees the biggest surge in new listeners – but what exactly are people in the UK tuning into in summer 2025?
The streaming service BookBeat continues to grow steadily, and revenues grew by 16 percent during the first quarter of 2025 compared to 2024. The growth is driven by an increasing number of paying users. The quarter also saw the highest influx of new trial users ever recorded by BookBeat, both in the mature markets such as Finland, Germany and Sweden as well as internationally.
For the streaming service BookBeat, 2024 was the most successful year in the company's history to date. Growth amounted to 21 percent for the full year, landing at SEK 1.36 billion. The company also reported a positive EBITA result for the first time since its inception in 2015. In September, the goal of one million paying users per month was also achieved.
Audiobook streaming service, BookBeat's revenue and the number of paying users grew by 28% in 2023. In total, revenues in 2023 amounted to SEK 1.122 billion (877 million SEK in 2022). Over 70% of revenues came from international markets outside of its domestic market, Sweden. The number of paying users increased by 200,000 users to 915,000 paying users at the end of 2023 (715,000 in 2022).
BookBeat, uno dei servizi di streaming leader in Europa nel settore degli audiolibri, sta rafforzando il suo catalogo italiano grazie a un accordo con Pottermore Publishing, l’editore dell’amatissima serie di Harry Potter.Fin dal suo lancio in Italia nell’ottobre 2022, BookBeat ha registrato una crescita positiva in questo Paese, e i dati di mercato confermano che l’Italia abbia un grande pote
BookBeat, one of Europe’s leading streaming services for audiobooks, is strengthening its Italian catalogue by entering an agreement with Pottermore Publishing, the publisher of the internationally beloved Harry Potter series.Since its launch in October 2022, BookBeat has witnessed positive growth in Italy and the data demonstrates that it’s a market with great potential for the years to come.
BookBeat, l'un des services leaders de streaming de livres audio en Europe, renforce son catalogue français en signant un accord avec Editis et sa marque de livres audio Lizzie, et Pottermore, éditeur numérique de la série à succès Harry Potter, qui a vendu plusieurs millions d'exemplaires
BookBeat, one of Europe’s leading streaming services for audiobooks, is strengthening its French catalogue by entering an agreement with France’s second-largest publishing group, Editis and Lizzie – its audiobook brand- as well as with Pottermore, digital publisher of the multi-million bestselling Harry Potter series.
BookBeat and Simon & Schuster, a global leader in general interest publishing, have signed an agreement to add over 7,000 English-language audiobooks to the BookBeat service. Simon & Schuster’s distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world’s most popular and widely recognized writers and winners of the most prestigious literary honours and awardsWe are so happy to bring Simon
Italy’s largest publisher, Mondadori, reaches an agreement with BookBeat – one of the leading streaming services for audiobooks in Europe – making over 1.000 additional audiobooks available for streaming.Only a few months after entering the Italian market, BookBeat has reached agreements with all five major publishers in Italy, which accounts for the majority of the total book market. The late
BookBeat vient de lancer son application de streaming pour livres audio en France. C’est le 13ème marché sur lequel BookBeat lance une offre locale. BookBeat a travaillé sur une offre spécifique au marché français et a déjà signé un partenariat stratégique avec le leader de l’édition en France, le groupe Hachette Livre.
BookBeat has now launched in France, making it the 13th core market for the platform. BookBeat has already signed a strategic partnership with Hachette Livre, the number one publishing group in France. At the same time, BookBeat will launch a new offer in UK, offering three packages from 20 to 100 hours of listening every month, starting at 5,99£.
BookBeat, one of the leading services for audiobooks and e-books in Europe, has now launched its service in Italy and Spain. Spanish and Italian users can choose between three packages ranging from 20 to 100 hours, starting from 6,99 €.
BookBeat, a leading streaming service for audiobooks and RBmedia, the world’s largest audiobook publisher, have entered a distribution agreement. After the summer, BookBeat will increase its audiobook catalogue with nearly 40,000 titles from RBmedia’s audio brands.
BookBeat, one of the largest streaming services for audiobooks in Europe, has launched in the Netherlands and Belgium. The launch will give users on the two markets access to the service in Dutch and will include more than 500 000 audiobooks and e-books.
BookBeat, one of the largest streaming services for audiobooks, has now entered into a distribution agreement with the market-leading publisher within commercial books in the Dutch markets VBK Uitgevers, allowing Dutch listeners to enjoy the whole catalogue of more than 1800 audiobooks from the renowned publisher.
