Analysis News Spotify is no longer earning any money from Russia, as it de-monetizes ads and subscriptions in market (update) Spotify Chief Financial Officer Paul Vogel reveals news on the platform's position in Russia
Analysis News Spotify just patented its own A&R technology to predict breaking artists. Should labels be concerned? Daniel Ek's company suggests it could ink "recording deals" with on-the-rise artists... and spot them sooner than record companies
News Ukraine: Major music companies donate to humanitarian orgs, as Spotify shuts Russia office All three majors have made donations to organizations focusing on the people of Ukraine
News Spotify’s Director, Global Head of International Licensing exits, joins YouTube Music as Managing Director, APAC Veteran music executive Paul Smith joins YouTube Music
News Spotify’s $90 Car Thing device now on sale publicly in the US Car Thing is only available for Spotify Premium users
News Dan Rutman joins Spotify as Head of Music Creator Partnerships Rutman was most recently Head of Business Development at TuneCore
News Spotify acquires two podcast firms, Podsights and Chartable Podsights is a podcast advertising measurement service, and Chartable is a podcast analytics platform
News Spotify and Amazon each considering takeover bids for UK podcast firm Audioboom (report) Audioboom's shows are downloaded more than 116m times each month
Analysis News Spotify’s valuation is half the size it was a year ago. Could a Big Tech titan make a shock acquisition bid? It couldn't really happen... could it?
Analysis Blog Artists should take a principled stance against Spotify for songwriters The following MBW Op/ed comes from David Israelite, the President and CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association
News Ex-Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy named new Peloton CEO, as firm cuts 2,800 jobs in ‘restructuring program’ Former Spotify CFO steps in as Peloton co-founder steps down
News Spotify says it can’t pay songwriters better royalty rates. It’s also spending $320 million on a Barcelona sponsorship deal. Agreement with Spanish soccer giants expected to be announced this week
News Warner Chappell: Spotify, Google and Amazon are paying songwriters an ‘appallingly low’ rate in the US Warner Chappell's co-chairs slam streaming pay rate for songwriters
Analysis News From Warner and Universal scrapping unrecouped balances to Spotify’s 180m subs: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
News Spotify rival Anghami gets approval to list on NASDAQ Anghami has more than 75 million registered users