Audio streaming giant plans to pay hosts to make podcast videos and allow premium subscribers to watch them without ads.

Spotify goes after YouTube's video podcast dominance by removing ads for paid subscribers and introducing a new revenue program for creators.

Announced by Spotify boss during its Now Playing event in Los Angeles, the service is expanding more rapidly into video – not just music videos, which it has dabbled in before, but video podcasts and presentations from some of the world's biggest influencers. It's coming for YouTube and TikTok, basically.