Spotify In The News

YouTube generated nearly $20bn from ads last year – more than $54m per day

Annual figure was up by over $4.6bn year-on-year

Spotify lost the equivalent of $2.2m every day in 2020… as it spent over $1bn on sales and marketing in the year

MBW shines the spotlight on SPOT's 2020 fiscal results – on the black ink... and the red ink

Spotify subscriptions grew to 155m in 2020, Monthly Active Users topped 345m

Spotify published its financial results today

After leaving Spotify last year, Joe Budden takes podcast to Patreon, joins firm as Head of Creator Equity

First exclusive episode of The Joe Budden Podcast to launch on February 8

Why Soundcharts, used by all three major record companies, is ‘not your typical music data aggregator’

Soundcharts CEO, David Weiszfeld, on the music industry's future evolution – and his company's role in it

Round Hill IPO fund starts buying, spending $282m on hits recorded by The Beatles, Marvin Gaye and more

Next up will be the purchase of a 29% stake in 100,000 copyrights once owned by Carlin

Spotify finally launches in South Korea, but with no Free tier

Streaming service is now active in 93 markets

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