News Spotify fake stream site smashed by record industry injunction in Germany "This should be seen as a signal to other manipulation services that we are prepared to take action against them.”
News Glassnote hires Spotify’s Dexter Batson as UK Head of Promotion "Dexter's experience is perfect for how music gets exposed and grows in this exciting era.”
Analysis News Streaming is getting bigger in Japan, with the likes of Spotify generating over $380m in market last year Industry audio streaming revenues grew 33.8% in Japan last year, shows MBW analysis
News K-Pop has been streamed for more than 134bn minutes on Spotify since 2014 There have been more than 41bn K-Pop streams on the platform to date
News Spotify rebrands New Music Friday playlist, which has 8m followers globally The revamped playlist has 43 versions worldwide
News Spotify & Resident Advisor enter global partnership ‘to drive millions of music fans to local venues’ Localized Resident Advisor event listings to be promoted within the app
News A year after trying to cut songwriters’ pay, Spotify boosts writer visibility with launch of pages feature New feature wins praise from writers – but bad vibes still lurk in the background
Analysis Blog A Call to Arms: ‘Universal, Sony, Warner, Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube… dig deep and help us.’ Ministry Of Sound Chairman Lohan Presencer calls on music's biggest companies to stump up for small venues
News Spotify to pay $250m for the Ringer, bringing its total podcast acquisition spend to $650m in the past 12 months The Ringer is the SPOT's latest acquisition following Parcast, Anchor and Gimlet media in 2019
News Spotify’s standalone Kids app rolled out in the UK and Australia Standalone app will eventually expand to all markets that have Premium Family
News Tencent, set to control 10% of Universal, also owns 9.1% of Spotify – but Daniel Ek has the final say on firm’s stake Spotify's founder and CEO has control of voting shares linked to Tencent's stake in his company
Analysis Daniel Ek talks paid-for promotion, podcasts and Spotify’s mission to become ‘the world’s No.1 audio platform’ What does Spotify's CEO have to say on key issues facing the company in 2020?
News Spotify now has 124m Premium subscribers, growing by over 3m per month The average paying Spotify subscriber across the world (ARPU) in Q4 2019 paid €4.65 per month
News After suing Spotify for mistreatment, independent music company files 10 copyright infringement lawsuits against YouTube, Apple and others Apple, Google, YouTube, Amazon, SoundCloud, Pandora, Deezer, 7digital, iHeartradio and Rhapsody named as defendants