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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- Jun 3: “If we don’t nail this, we’ll be essentially telling podcasters that their only real options for podcast video are YouTube and Spotify.” The Podcast Standards Project has published its thinking behind HLS delivery of video podcasting via open RSS. Benefits include one RSS feed that can contain both audio and video; and adaptive quality for all consumers, as well as potentially producing consumption analytics, and lowering bandwidth bills. HLS streams can still be downloadable if required.
- Jun 2: Buzzsprout’s monthly platform stats for May show an increase in market share for Spotify of more than 3%. Total downloads of Buzzsprout shows were down 5% in the month.
- May 30: Spotify launched enhanced podcast discovery tools to its app, including recommendations on the home screen “for users who love podcasts”. It’s unclear how the recommendations are chosen. The company has also added a threaded view to its proprietary comments, and a new “following” view within the app.
- May 28: The latest episode of People In Podcasting features our Editor, James Cridland. The show is also available on YouTube and Spotify in video.
- May 26: Tom Raffe is now Head of Commercial at VoiceMap, a company that creates audio tours. He joins from Amazon Music and Wondery; and also worked at Spotify.
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