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As Spotify pushes its new video monetization program, sexually explicit videos have appeared on its top podcast charts, violating the company's terms of use (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Spotify

Indian artists discovered over 11.2 bn times by first-time listeners in 2024: Spotify report (indianexpress.com)
12 days ago India Spotify

A look at the growing battle over how to define a podcast, as YouTube pushes deeper into podcasting and Spotify pursues video (www.bloomberg.com)
14 days ago YouTube Spotify

Spotify slashed nearly €500M in marketing, R&D spending, and general administrative expenses in 2024, which helped the company swing to a net income of €1.1B (t.co)
14 days ago Spotify

Spotify says it paid $10B+ in royalties in 2024, “the largest in music history”, making up 60%+ of its $17.13B+ 2024 revenue, with ~1,500 artists earning $1M+ (t.co)
19 days ago Spotify

How focusing on West Africa helped music streamer Audiomack grow alongside industry giants like Spotify; 50% of its 40M monthly listeners are from Africa (www.fastcompany.com)
21 days ago Africa Spotify

How to boost the audio quality on Spotify (indianexpress.com)
21 days ago Spotify

Spotify will begin accepting AI-narrated audiobooks recorded using ElevenLabs software; Spotify already allows AI-recorded audiobooks, with several restrictions (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-21 AI Spotify

Spotify's HiFi audio tier set to debut in 2025: Report (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-18 Spotify

Analysis: Spotify, which reported its first annual profit in 2024, had just €1.8B in ad revenue, 26% above 2022, while subscription revenue grew 35% to €13.8B (www.theinformation.com)
2025-2-18 Spotify

Sources: Spotify hopes to launch a Music Pro tier in 2025, a $6/month add-on that will include higher-quality audio, early access to concert tickets, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15 Spotify

Documents: Spotify co-founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon sold 2.5M+ shares in 2024, netting ~$1B, the highest sales since 2019, and now own ~16% of Spotify (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-11 Spotify

Edison: despite Spotify's video push, only two of the top 10 US podcasts post videos on Spotify; 37 of the top 50 podcasts regularly post videos on YouTube (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-10 YouTube Spotify

Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to €4.2B, MAUs up 12% YoY to 675M, subscribers up 11% YoY to 263M, and €1.14B in 2024 net income, vs. a €532M loss in 2023 (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-4 4Q Spotify

Spotify says it paid out $10B to the music industry in 2024, up from a record $9B in 2023, taking its total to $60B paid out since its 2006 founding (variety.com)
2025-1-29 Spotify

mixlist.org - organize your spotify library (mixlist.org)
2025-1-24 Spotify

A profile of Sulinna Ong, Spotify's head of editorial, whose team curates thousands of playlists and discovers new artists to complement Spotify's algorithms (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-20 Algorithm Spotify

Apple is unlikely to acquire Sonos, but Amazon, Spotify, Roku, Samsung and others might consider the idea, with Amazon being the most natural fit (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-20 Amazon Samsung Apple Spotify

Drake withdraws petition accusing UMG and Spotify of inflating Kendrick Lamar's “Not Like Us” with bots and payola; the diss track accused Drake of pedophilia (variety.com)
2025-1-15 Spotify

A look at the burgeoning underground market connecting job seekers to anonymous employees willing to make a referral at Microsoft, Nvidia, Spotify, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-11 Microsoft Nvidia Spotify

Internal data: Spotify had about 55M US subscribers as of Q3 2024, of which only around 607,000 were on the cheaper “basic” plan that doesn't include audiobooks (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-10 Spotify

Spotify debuts a Partner Program in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, letting popular podcast hosts monetize video content, after announcing it in November (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-3 Australia Canada Spotify

Porn videos surface in Spotify search results, highlighting gaps in content moderation (indianexpress.com)
2024-12-31 Spotify

SEC filings: senior Spotify executives have sold $1.25B in stock in 2024, including CEO Daniel Ek selling ~$350M and co-founder Martin Lorentzon selling $550M+ (t.co)
2024-12-23 Spotify

How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts (harpers.org)
2024-12-21 Spotify

Google releases new Android features, including “expressive” video captions, improvements to the Pixel Screenshots app, a Spotify extension for Gemini, and more (www.engadget.com)
2024-12-6 Android Google Spotify

Google releases Android 15's first major update, including expressive video captions, Spotify extension for Gemini, and Screenshots app updates for the Pixel 9 (www.theverge.com)
2024-12-6 Android Google Spotify

Some Spotify users are left underwhelmed by 2024's Spotify Wrapped, complaining about the inclusion of an AI podcast, a lack of detailed statistics, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 AI Spotify

Spotify says Joe Rogan was its top US podcast in 2024 for the fourth year running, followed by Call Her Daddy, and 33%+ of the top 50 podcasts were video (variety.com)
2024-12-5 Spotify

Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped, adding an AI podcast of users' 2024 Wrapped via Google's AI summarization tool NotebookLM, and a Your Music Evolution feature (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 Google AI Spotify

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