Quick Hits: Some Spotify stuff
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web. Over the past several days, Spotify was at the center of some announcements, updates, and rumors. Here’s the roundup. Continue Reading
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December streaming, and flashback 10 years of RAIN tracking of Triton Digital Webcast Metrics
RAIN has been tracking Triton Digital’s monthly Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker for more than 10 years, starting in September 2009. Looking back to that Ranker, we see a couple of interesting things — a trip down memory lane in the growth of streaming. Continue Reading
Spotify’s total price tag for The Ringer said to be $250 million
Spotify has leveraged acquisitions to build up its podcasting empire over the past several months. Some additional details have emerged about the company’s big deal from last week, its purchase of sports-centric media operation The Ringer. Continue Reading
Spotify Kids gets beta tests in UK and Australia
Spotify is giving a bigger global rollout to its standalone Kids app. The software is rolling out today as a beta for anyone with a Spotify Premium Family subscription in the UK and Australia. Continue Reading
Spotify acquires The Ringer, further expanding its podcast and digital media reach
Spotify had more than earnings results to share today. The company is continuing its march through podcasting with the acquisition of The Ringer, the sports-centric digital media business founded by Bill Simmons. Continue Reading
Spotify Q4 revenue keeps rising, as global subscriber base hits 124 million
Spotify posted several notable increases in its fourth-quarter earnings report. Revenue, subscribers, and podcast interest were all on the rise for the streaming service over the course of 2019. Continue Reading
PodcastOne to distribute all its shows to Spotify
PodcastOne is bringing its entire roster of more than 300 podcasts to Spotify. The deal will add some notable titles to Spotify’s growing library, such as The Adam Carolla Show. Continue Reading
Latest Spotify test is a Stories feature for influencers
Spotify usually has a slew of new features in testing at any given time. The latest to get a public appearance is called Stories, and it lets the user add some video recordings to their audio playlists. These can be a clip of the person or a snippet of the song with album art as the visual. Continue Reading
Apple and Spotify dominate podcast distro — new numbers from Chartable
James Cridland’s Podnews apparently inspired podcast analytics and attribution company Chartable to crunch some numbers defining the share of podcasting distribution among leaders in that space. The question derives from Spotify’s rapid growth in this field. Apple is still #1, but Spotify’s influence in this field is growing impressively. Continue Reading
Rumor Fact(ory) chapter 2: The Ringer wants $200m for acquisition
Yesterday we reported rumors that Spotify might acquire sports/pop podcast network The Ringer, founded by ex-ESPN Bill Simmons. Today a second swirl of rumors speculates that Simmons is asking $200-million for the deal. We scratch out some rough arithmetic. Continue Reading
Rumor Fact(ory): Spotify shopping for The Ringer podcast network
Spotify’s next podcast acquisition could be The Ringer, the network established by Bill Simmons in 2016. The Ringer is a sports and pop culture podcast publisher; Bill Simmons is ex-ESPN and helped start the 30 For 30 sports series. There is some fearful reaction on Twitter. Continue Reading
Perplexed by the Apple vs Spotify podcast race? They can both be winners.
With podcasts on track to be commanding a cool billion dollars in ad revenue, the fight to be the leading listening platform will only be getting more intense. This year kicked off with multiple reports from difference sources with their own datasets about which service is the biggest. James Cridland of Podnews gave his take on how to reconcile the different assessments Continue Reading