News Spotify just invented AI technology that will police songwriter plagiarism Spotify's in-house AI expert, François Pachet, is a co-founder of the new technology, now being reviewed for a European patent
News After calling Universal ‘music’s most innovative company’, now Spotify says UMG is ‘willing to lean in more aggressively’ than its rivals to SPOT’s marketing tools "Our hope and expectation will be that other labels, both the big ones [and] small ones will lean in more aggressively over time."
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: Twitch, Round Hill, Primary Wave, Spotify, Shutterstock The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Spotify explores podcast-only $7.99-per-month subscription prospect in new survey Company also looking into $2.99-per-month and $4.99-per-month tiers
News Spotify to buy podcast ad platform Megaphone for $235m, bringing its total podcast acquisition spend to over $800m in the past 2 years Megaphone provides hosting and ad-insertion capabilities for podcast publishers
News 3 things to know about Spotify’s controversial new ‘pay for influence’ tool, Discovery Mode MBW sits down with Spotify to ask about its new tool, which some have accused of bearing the hallmarks of payola
News Spotify is letting record labels influence personalized recommendations… so long as they pay for it in royalties "As we learn from this experiment, we’ll carefully test expanding to other personalized areas of Spotify."
Analysis Spotify is testing price rises and paying labels billions – but, in alarming news for investors, it appears to have a subscriber problem in emerging markets (update) MBW digs into the numbers behind Spotify's newly-announced Q3 results – and discovers a surprising failure in the company's mission to grow everywhere
News Spotify subs grew by 6m in Q3, but Daniel Ek’s company has posted a net loss of over $500m so far this year ARPU down (again) but firm's total revenues jump above $2bn in the quarter
News Is Spotify in for a rough ride from UK politicians? New inquiry from British government to examine business models operated by streaming firms
News New Spotify format allows podcasters to place songs between talk segments in shows Premium listeners will hear full tracks as part of these shows and Free tier users will hear 30-second music previews
News Spotify increases price of Family Plan subscription in Australia Spotify Premium Family price increased for new users in Australia from October 1
News TuneCore partners with Spotify rival Gaana in India Gaana announced in August that it had surpassed 185m monthly active users
Analysis News Spotify has a patent for personality tracking technology – and it’s pretty creepy stuff "Future research could begin to link streaming behavior with brain scanning, genetic, and physiological data."
News Camille Hearst appointed Head of Spotify for Artists Exec joins from crowdfunding/membership platform Patreon