Daniel Ek In The News

Now YouTube Music has raised its monthly price in the US. Is Spotify next?

YouTube Music has risen by one dollar to $10.99 per month

Spotify to launch more expensive ‘Supremium’ tier that includes HiFi audio (report)

Daniel Ek's company is reportedly readying an entirely new, higher-priced subscription tier

Spotify fined $5.4m by Swedish privacy regulator

The case stems from a complaint filed in January 2019

Spotify cuts 200 jobs as it restructures its podcast division

Layoffs represent about 2% of the company’s total workforce

Rob Stringer says music streaming fraud ‘is a problem that must be eliminated’, calls for better payouts from short-form video platforms

Sony Music Group Chairman covers various key industry topics in presentation to Sony Corp investors

Warner CFO Eric Levin: music streaming business is ready for recurring price increases

Exec discussed streaming prices during a Q&A session at JPMorgan’s Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference on May 22

Who owns Spotify today?

MBW digs through SEC filings to discover who ultimately controls music subscription streaming's dominant player

‘An Ed Sheeran stream is not worth the same as a stream of rain falling on a roof’: Robert Kyncl says music streaming payout and pricing models must, and will, change

Warner Music Group boss presses his message, says WMG's licensing agreements with Spotify et al will not be the same in future