Spotify and Apple’s rivalry has many facets, from the finer points of music-discovery features to long-simmering anti-competition disputes.
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Spotify and Chartmetric hail South Asian music’s global growth
It’s South Asian Heritage Month, and Spotify and Chartmetric have been talking about the global growth of music from that region.
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Spotify boosts its advertising business with WPP partnership
Spotify is keen for advertising to generate a bigger share of its revenues. Its new partnership with ads giant WPP may help.
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Spotify’s AI DJ is now giving listeners hip-hop commentary
Like every streaming service, Spotify is rightfully excited about this year marking hip-hop’s 50th anniversary.
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Spotify still the top music service in the UK says Ofcom
UK communications regulator Ofcom has published its ‘Media Nations 2023’ report, exploring the media habits of people across the UK.
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Spotify backs K-Pop group NewJeans with ‘Bunnyland’ campaign
Spotify has just unveiled a multi-faceted marketing campaign to support K-Pop stars NewJeans following their recent EP release.
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Spotify for Artists fan study explores superfan listening habits
Spotify for Artists has launched a new report, which slices their data around the listening habits of the most committed fans.Spotify is specifically referring to them as “super listeners”, given […]
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News round-up: Spotify’s AI plans, YouTube Shorts, The FAC, & Beatport
Please note that this week, we’re taking our annual week-long news summer pause – however, we are still publishing a Lead story each day, and quick links to other important […]
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Spotify Q2 2023 results announced
Spotify, after raising prices in 53 countries, quickly announced its Q2 results for 2023, and it’s a familiar story of big numbers going up, while one or two go down: […]
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Spotify price rise reaction – and possible consequences
Spotify has waited a long time to raise prices from the fabled $9.99-per-month mark, in the US, at least. So what was the fallout from the Spotify subscription price rise announcement? Well, judging by social media reactions, there was no enormous revolt by subscribers, at least. Spotify’s share price dipped by 4.6%, although in general shareholders are presumably happy with an increase to the company’s income stream
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Reports: Spotify to raise the price of individual subscriptions in US
In the US, the price of an individual subscription will increase, Billboard reports, from $9.99 to $10.99. This is the first price rise for an individual premium account in the US, having stayed at the $9.99 point since Spotify launched there in 2011.
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Spotify taps Instagram to publish charts based on popular Reels
Spotify is launching some ‘Reels Charts’ in Brazil and Mexico: playlists that feature the 50 most popular songs from Instagram Reels.