Spotify
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Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. As of September 2024, it is one of the largest providers of music streaming services, with over 640 million monthly active users comprising 252 million paying subscribers. Spotify is listed on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American depositary receipts. Wikipedia
Website: spotify.com
Symbol: NYSE:SPOT
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Latest news
- Jan 28: Spotify has launched Creator Milestone Awards, which will be given to podcasts that reach particular streaming levels on Spotify. It’s the first time Spotify has publicly revealed streaming numbers for podcasters across the platform. Like YouTube, award recipients will be hand-delivered a physical Spotify plaque.
- Jan 27: Mystery: reruns of The Ricky Gervais Show are, reports The Times, at the top of Apple Podcasts UK comedy charts, eighteen years after their release - but nobody seems to know why: not The Guardian (who’s podcast it is), or Gervais himself. The show is being hosted on Spotify for Creators.
- Jan 24: John McDermott discovers that The Journal, produced by Spotify and the Wall Street Journal, has 21 people on staff. (You’d have thought one of them might be able to make a trailer).
- Jan 22: Podtrac has added two new features for customers of its $20/month “grow your show” plan - Smartlinks, to measure the effectiveness of online promotions, and rankings from Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
- Jan 13: Substack, which announced a partnership with Spotify in April last year, is now promoting its Spotify integration on the Substack dashboard. The service also has integrations with Apple, YouTube Music, “Youtube Podcasts”, Pocket Casts and Overcast; but this is the first time that our Podnews reader who spotted this has seen them actively promote it.
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