Music Business Worldwide

Barry McCarthy

What happened when Spotify raised its prices by 10% in Norway?

Local market stats in Norway suggest risky move was a big success

Netflix just raised its prices for the third time since Spotify launched in the USA

Netflix's premium tier is $4 per month more expensive than it was in 2015

Spotify: We don’t expect major labels to ‘hand us an additional pile of gross margin’

CFO Barry McCarthy speaks frankly on subject of re-negotiations with the labels

Spotify just turned the first net profit in its history (but it’s not particularly happy about it)

Company wanted to hire more R&D people... but couldn't get the staff

The exec who took Netflix public just gave a storming defence of Spotify’s future business plan

CFO Barry McCarthy explains why Daniel Ek's company believes it will beat its rivals "like a drum"

Spotify just hired the man who took Netflix onto the stock market

Barry McCarthy switches from board position to CFO