--- title: Content Ingestion & Podcast Video Incident Report description: On June 24, 2026, Spotify's video transcoding infrastructure hit maximum capacity, causing multi-hour delays in podcast episode publication. Five converging... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/content-ingestion-podcast-video-incident-report-qo6farq7g twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Content Ingestion & Podcast Video Incident Report | daily.dev og:description: On June 24, 2026, Spotify's video transcoding infrastructure hit maximum capacity, causing multi-hour delays in podcast episode publication. Five converging... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/content-ingestion-podcast-video-incident-report-qo6farq7g og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qo6farq7G.png og:image:alt: Content Ingestion & Podcast Video Incident Report og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Content Ingestion & Podcast Video Incident Report **[Spotify Labs](https://daily.dev/sources/spotify)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary On June 24, 2026, Spotify's video transcoding infrastructure hit maximum capacity, causing multi-hour delays in podcast episode publication. Five converging factors caused the outage: insufficient headroom for traffic spikes, a concurrent batch reprocessing job, recent quality improvements that increased per-item processing cost, a prioritization system malfunction that treated batch jobs equally to new submissions, and a resource scheduling bug underutilizing compute by ~10%. The team stopped the batch job, deployed a scheduling fix, and brought additional capacity online overnight. All queues cleared by 01:02 UTC on June 25. Follow-up actions include a 67% capacity increase, fixed resource scheduling, earlier monitoring alerts, improved prioritization, and better backpressure mechanisms throughout the pipeline. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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