News Spotify buys popular music trivia game Heardle Spotify says that Heardle is 'more than a trivia game', and that it's 'also a tool for musical discovery'
News Ex-Spotify Head of Music Business Development Karibi Dagogo-Jack named Head of Music Partnerships at Roblox Exec's appointment forms part of a wider expansion of Roblox's global partnerships team
News Deezer goes public: Spotify rival makes stock market debut on Euronext Paris Deezer CEO Jeronimo Folgueira rings opening bell
News Songwriters, rejoice: Spotify appeal FAILS to stop composers getting improved 15.1% streaming royalty rate in the US Bottom line: The streaming services are going to have to fork over a pile of cash to publishers and songwriters
News After signalling audiobooks push at its Investor Day, Spotify closes acquisition of Findaway SPOT entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the company in November.
News Spotify to acquire AI voice platform Sonantic Firm built the AI voice model for actor Val Kilmer used in Top Gun: Maverick
Analysis News From Spotify’s 1bn user target to TuneCore’s pricing overhaul: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
Analysis News Music’s biggest companies are waiting for a Spotify price rise. For now, Spotify isn’t budging. Daniel Ek is wondering if Netflix "didn't get ahead of itself" with its streaming price rises...
Analysis News Spotify says it can hit 1bn users globally by 2030. But its MAU growth is slowing in Latin America. MBW analysis shows that Spotify's LatAm MAU growth was smaller in 2021 than it was in 2020
News Spotify launches music career advice platform it says is ‘like an artist manager in your pocket’ New interactive career advice portal is called 'In Focus'
News TIYA, a social audio platform and Clubhouse rival with 20m downloads, integrates Spotify into its app 'Our users now have another tool to socialize and share their lifestyles and interests,' said James Lin, CEO of TIYA
Analysis Tencent Music and NetEase Cloud Music both added more paying music users than Spotify in Q1 NetEase Cloud Music added 7.8 million paying users in Q1; Tencent Music added 4.0 million
Analysis News Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber currently have the most monthly listeners of all artists on Spotify With just over 84 million monthly listeners, Ed Sheeran remains comfortably in the lead, despite having not released a new studio album since October 2021
Analysis Streaming’s surprise growth in Sweden suggests that, for Spotify, the time for price rises is now MBW turns a magnifying glass to Sweden and Brazil, and discovers some startling statistics about Daniel Ek's successes
News YouTube’s Q1 ad revenue was more than double what Spotify made across its entire business in Q1 YouTube's advertising revenues reached $6.87 billion in Q1 2022