News Spotify launches Global Cultures Initiative to boost regional artists from around the world Spotfiy launches playlists featuring popular tracks from communities around the world
Analysis News Spotify is testing semi-personalized playlists. What might that mean for record labels? Streaming platform's new experiment hints at a very different future for playlisting
Analysis News Spotify’s direct distribution deals: What do artists get paid? MBW runs the numbers on Spotify's new offering to artists
Analysis Blog Spotify’s direct distribution deals are only a threat to those aggregators stuck in the past Ditto Music CEO Lee Parsons on the big news that Spotify is accepting directly-distributed music from artists
News Spotify opens the floodgates: artists can now upload tracks direct to the streaming platform for FREE Daniel Ek's company takes on SoundCloud, TuneCore, CD Baby and others with major move
News Spotify set to launch in the Middle East and North Africa in November Streaming company is currently seeking advertisers in fast-growing markets
News Spotify Chief Marketing Officer Seth Farbman leaving company this month Exec joined from Gap Inc in 2015
Analysis News Apple Music gains global streaming subscription market share – as Spotify holds firm Amazon Music Unlimited has just under 10m paying subs at the close of H1 2018
News Spotify partners with Nielsen to provide deeper ad analytics for brands Nielsen Brand Effect to be adopted across multiple locations
News Spotify and Apple both took billboards in Times Square promoting the same artist (and it wasn’t Drake) Nina Nesbitt, who releases independently via Cooking Vinyl, wins double promotional push
Analysis Blog Spotify profit payouts: What’s the fairest way to recompense artists? Annabella Coldrick of the Music Managers Forum dissects the main players to examine how they're distributing cash windfall
News Spotify sells Student Plan at $0.99 for 3 months because ‘students have plenty of other things they want to spend their money on’ Discounted offer available for new users in the United States
News Another senior Spotify exec out as Graham James exits Dustee Jenkins leads Spotify's global comms from New York
News After Spotify, Ticketmaster inks deal with Samsung for voice assistant Bixby Samsung Galaxy Note9 users in North America can now use voice to search for events
News Spotify is going big on podcasts to help fix its troubled finances Joe Budden Podcast comes exclusively to platform, as Ebb & Flow launches with vodka sponsor