Tag: daniel ek

Fresh from his company launching its new Loud & Clear website focused on musicians’ streaming earnings, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek dropped in to Clubhouse last night alongside Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Shopify...

“I believe 100% that we’re going to see a rise of Bollywood and new types of Indian music making it into the global scene in the very near future.” Not the first prediction of this kind, but it carries extra weight...

The Observer Effect has published a long interview with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, focusing on his management style and processes. So, there aren't many news lines for the likes of us to pick out on Spotify's business, but...

Spotify and Epic Games have both been waging an antitrust battle against Apple, with an EC complaint and lawsuit respectively. Now the pair have company in a new Coalition for App Fairness that they have co-founded to lobby...

Speaking on the Freakonomics Podcast (which handily also transcribed the interview), Daniel Ek, Spotify’s co-founder and CEO, spoke at length about the streaming service’s history, its future plans and its relationship...

By now you’ll hopefully have seen our alert this morning about Apple’s response to Spotify’s anti-trust complaint about its App Store policies. But Spotify CEO Daniel Ek also talked about the complaint yesterday,...

We reported on Fast Company’s profile of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek yesterday, but the magazine’s website has since posted a longer transcript of its interviews with Ek. One of the illuminating anecdotes about Spotify’s...

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has given a rare interview, to Fast Company, in which he manages with aplomb to swerve any controversial statements that might make Spotify’s music licensors cross. Ek does talk up the potential...

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek doesn’t do that many public interviews, so his appearance at the Slush conference in Helsinki today to talk about his company, the music industry and tech entrepreneurship was notable. Ek took part...

While much of the music industry’s attention was on Brussels yesterday as the European Commission announced its proposal for copyright reform, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek offered a powerful distraction by announcing his company’s...

The dopamine hit from clickbait headlines will do for us all at some point. Nordic Business Insider has picked up on an interview with Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek on TV4 in his homeland of Sweden and suggested that, “reading...

Spotify has timed its long-anticipated ‘100m active users’ announcement well: just ahead of CEO Daniel Ek’s appearance at the advertising industry’s Cannes Lions conference. That means the streaming service can enthuse...