News Spotify is testing a Stories feature for influencer playlists YouTube star Summer Mckeen is the first influencer to test the feature
News Spotify in talks to acquire sports media outlet the Ringer (report) WSJ reports that 'discussions are early'
News Universal poaches Spotify’s head in Japan to run Digital Strategy in market Streaming now claims over 12% of Japan's recorded music market
News Even Justin Bieber’s Spotify-gaming fans can’t unseat Dance Monkey as the world’s favorite song Smash hit single is on course to top a billion Spotify streams in the next three weeks
News War Is Over: Spotify and Warner Chappell sign global licensing deal – including India Landmark case ends in a fresh deal between Spotify and Warner Chappell
News Spotify’s Global Marketing Lead joins Twitch as Director of Marketing, EMEA Exec exits as SPOT hires for Head of Global Marketing Strategy role in New York
News Justin Bieber in Spotify stream-gaming controversy as he directs fans to play new single on repeat Artist reposts (now-deleted) guide telling fans to "create a playlist with Yummy on repeat and stream it"
News Spotify launches ‘Streaming Ad Insertion’ tool for podcast advertising SAI 'leverages streaming to deliver Spotify’s full digital suite of planning, reporting, and measurement capabilities'
Blog Spotify end of year stats…there’s a lot to unwrap This MBW blog comes from Matt Brinkworth, who is an artist manager and Head of Digital at Omnian Music Group
News TikTok parent ByteDance is trialing a Spotify rival called Resso in Indonesia & India (report) App has seen 27,000 installs across iOS and Android so far
Analysis News Is it time for Spotify and other streaming services to increase their prices? Survey finds that more than half of respondents would pay more than $9.99 for a subscription
News Spotify recommends labels spend at least $5k on its new pop-up ads Targeted pop-up visual ads were announced in October
News Spotify now has an actual Head of Hits, as Ned Monahan joins from Interscope Monahan appears to be essentially succeeding Mike Biggane at streaming firm
News Are TikTok and Bytedance about to become a real problem for Spotify? Three reasons why Bytedance's new service may pose a real threat to the world's No.1 audio streaming platform