Every now and then, Spotify throws open the door into its vault of fascinating data about its listeners. Today, its numbers have turned the most benign small talk topic into something fascinating. Continue Reading
Apple Music has hired Steve Savoca, a former Spotify exec. Savoca was the vice president of content at Spotify and his responsibilities centered on label relations. He’ll be performing the same label-focused duties at Apple Music. Continue Reading
The timeline for Spotify’s long-anticipated IPO launch may have encountered another setback. Sources have told TechCrunch that the streaming company could push the IPO back to 2018. The unnamed sources said waiting yet another year would give Spotify time to have a stronger balance sheet and revamp its label licensing deals. Continue Reading
Spotify has a colorful new marketing campaign underway in New York City that could be good news for Prince fans. Purple banners with just the Spotify logo are now on display in the Union Square subway station, leading to speculation that the streaming service will soon have access to Prince’s music. Continue Reading
Mobile analytics specialist App Annie has published its 2016 Retrospective. The report tracked another year of growth for the app industry, growth in worldwide downloads and time spent in app. Many other reports last year pointed to mobile as a key source of listeners for streaming music services, but this retrospective revealed that it can also be a big revenue driver. Continue Reading
MusicWatch sent RAIN News a pre-release note with results of its 2016 ‘Music Streaming Wars’ study, and found that Pandora was had the largest share of weekly music listening at 28%. YouTube took second place with a 27% share. Both of those figures include the audio companies’ free and paid tiers. Continue Reading
Spotify has a new job listing posted, but the position seems rather tailored for a specific applicant who is soon to be unemployed. The role is President of Playlists at the company. Federal-level playlist construction is a critical job requirement. Continue Reading
Spotify and GroupM, which struck an alliance in November, have executed a study (Streaming State of Mind) into streaming media consumption, listener demographics, mobile listening, and ad spend. Part of Spotify’s effort to evangelize streaming audio to advertisers, this deep and expansive survey delivers interesting insights. Continue Reading
As 2016 crawls to a close and 2017 emerges on the horizon, it’s time for that most time-honored of traditions: the year in review. Music companies of all stripes have released their assessments of top performers from the past twelve months. Here’s a collection of the high points from 2016. Continue Reading
Spotify is expanding its arrangement with the Rubicon Project to bring its programmatic advertising to the Asia Pacific market. This opens up Spotify’s programmatic campaigns to Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Continue Reading
If you follow pop or rap music news, then you know Drake has been one of the most dominant artists of this year. He’s closing out 2016 with yet another feather in his cap: his track “One Dance” is the first on Spotify to accumulate more than 1 billion plays on Spotify. Continue Reading
Spotify is running a holiday event that will see artists’ top fans getting fun and festive gifts. The 2016 Wrapped campaign will highlight some of the top performers on the streaming service. Superfans of those artists have a chance to receive themed presents. Continue Reading