Spotify In The News

Spotify For Artists product lead, Tracy Chan, joins Twitch: ‘I believe there’s a massive opportunity to help artists connect with their fans through live streaming.’

"Tracy is joining our team at a critical moment as we continue to see growing interest from both new and established musical talent joining Twitch."

Inside the Defected Records ‘hype machine’

Defected Chief Business Officer James Kirkham on "the science" of how the company leverages social media, events, artists and fans to maximum effect

Songtradr offers artists free music distribution until September 30: ‘We’ve been doing what we can, but we need to do more.’

Songtradr previously sacrificed commission fees for sync to help artists hit by COVID-19

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Oana Ruxandra named Chief Digital Officer & EVP, Business Development at Warner Music Group

Exec oversees WMG's global digital strategy

Swedish audio tech firm Dirac raises $6m; appoints former Spotify exec Jonathan Forster to Board of Directors

Forster to 'help catalyze the company’s expansion into the streaming market'.

Positive signs: Music streaming spend is rising in the US, even amid Coronavirus lockdown

News is in contrast to report out of Spain earlier this month

Spotify enables more artists & businesses to run audio ads as self-serve ‘Ad Studio’ moves out of beta and expands into 18 new markets

'Ad Studio marks the start of a new chapter.'