Spotify
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Regeringsgatan 19, 111 53 Stockholm, Sweden
Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. As of December 2024, it is one of the largest providers of music streaming services, with over 678 million monthly active users comprising 268 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
- Jul 3: The total number of new podcast episodes published in June was 4.7% fewer than in May on a normalised basis, says Livewire. Spotify for Creators saw a small decrease, but still retained its leading market share of 26.6% of new episodes. Spreaker (at 15%) and Buzzsprout (at 8.7%) saw increases in share, as did Podbean and Libsyn. Amazon Cloudfront still serves the majority of podcast episodes (now 60.79% of them).
- Jul 2: Just because your podcast is in Apple and Spotify doesn’t mean it’s everywhere. We’ve a full list of all the podcast directories - it’s free to be in them all, so it could be the best few hours of your time you’ve ever spent.
- Jun 26: Spotify is wooing some potential video creators with promises of free ad money. Natalie Jarvey of The Ankler published a leaked Spotify deck; and one slide shows an incentive of $5,000 of free ad credits within Spotify Ads Manager to help eligible new video creators to promote their shows. Spotify often highlights that many creators see a growth in consumption after adding video: but it hasn’t mentioned that it gives $5,000 of free ads to drive that consumption increase.
- Jun 25: A number of podcasters were at VidCon last week, thanks to Spotify.
- Jun 24: In Australia, Network 10’s forthcoming 10 NEWS+ tv program will be available on Spotify. It’s the first commercial free-to-air news program to launch as “a video podcast” (their words) on Spotify.
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