News Spotify is developing a Stories feature for its Playlists – reportUnreleased Sigrid Playlist Story discovered
Analysis News What happened when Spotify raised its prices by 10% in Norway?Local market stats in Norway suggest risky move was a big success
News Official: Subscription streaming revenue growth is slowing down in the UKIs key global market showing very first signs of streaming saturation?
News Spotify upgrades Family Plan features: could it be priming for a price rise?Upgrade is available now in Ireland with other markets to follow later this year
News Daniel Ek rubbishes iHeart boss Pittman’s claim that ‘73% of Spotify’s listening comes from just 3% of their audience’iHeart now reaches 275 million Americans monthly – more than the top two closest broadcast radio competitors combined
News Spotify to raise family subscription price by 13% in Scandinavia – reportSpotify hiked prices by 10% in Norway last summer – and they haven't come back down
News Amazon Music’s subscriber base isn’t really growing faster than Spotify’sSpotify is increasing its subs base by over 20m people year-on-year – Amazon is dragging significantly behind
News Apple in talks with Spotify to enable music playback control via Siri – reportA report in the The Information cites "three people familiar with the discussions"
News Spotify for Podcasters comes out of betaDashboard displays data such as average listening times, episode streams, and total listeners
Music Business Jobs SPOTIFY Spotify – Senior Manager, Content Strategy & Operations (US)Strategic thinker and problem solver with the ability to transform goals into actionable plans soughtJob type: OperationsLocation: Los Angeles, United StatesApplication deadline: September 13, 2019
News Exec who launched Universal’s Digster and Spinnup in Sweden starts platform for fans to invest in artists ‘without a traditional label’Mattias Tengblad and Emil Angervall launch Corite out of Sweden with interesting fan-funding model
Analysis Spotify is still adding more users across Europe and North America than in Asia, the Middle East and Africa combinedSPOT is reaching less than 1.5% of its potential addressable market outside of Europe and the Americas
News Apple Music For Artists launches, rivalling Spotify’s analytics toolsUnsurprisingly, Apple is putting Shazam data front and center within its app
Analysis News The major labels are close to generating $1m from streaming every hour – but global growth is actually slowing downMBW analysis shows that global major label streaming revenue growth slowed by 19.1% YoY in the first six months of this year
Music Business Jobs SPOTIFY Spotify – Marketing Manager, Parcast (US)7+ years' direct experience in audio, digital, film and/or TV marketing requiredJob type: Marketing/Digital MarketingLocation: Los AngelesApplication deadline: September 5, 2019