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 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
- Nov 15: Spotify probably emailed you yesterday with details of its new video clips/thumbnails feature. Headliner has worked with Spotify to produce a guide on how to produce them.
- Nov 14: Spotify announced a set of new features for creators at its Now Playing event in Los Angeles, with Gustav Söderström announcing its podcast (and video) hosting platform has been renamed to Spotify for Creators. Eligible creators in the US, UK, Canada and Australia are able to join the brand new Spotify Partner Program, which earns money from podcast audio ads (both on and off the platform), and, from early next year, revenue based on how much your video podcast is streamed by Premium users. (The videos will appear uninterrupted and ad-free for those users).
- Nov 13: Expect a set of announcements later today by Spotify in an event in Los Angeles.
- Nov 12: Pocket Casts is getting ready to change “Subscribe” to “Follow” in its popular podcast app, according to change notes for the upcoming next version. The word “Follow” is used by both Apple and Spotify.
- Nov 11: The New York Times released its Q3/24 financials, too. Podcasting is only mentioned twice in the prepared remarks: “We also began experimenting to make audio a more direct driver of subscriptions with new paid offerings available through Spotify and Apple.”
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