Spotify
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Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. As of December 2024, it is one of the largest providers of music streaming services, with over 678 million monthly active users comprising 268 million paying subscribers. Spotify is listed on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American depositary receipts. Wikipedia
Website: spotify.com
Symbol: NYSE:SPOT
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Latest news
- May 23: Embedding a podcast player in your website is a great way to get people to start listening. While your own podcast host will have one of these, here’s many more, from Apple and Spotify to others.
- May 21: Spotify’s share of downloads is down year-on-year in the UK, according to OP3 data. Our Editor, James Cridland, speaking this morning at The Podcast Show London, compared data from a typical week in April in 2024 and 2025. “It may be that this is the growth of Spotify video, which won’t be seen by third-party analytics services like this,” he said. Apple Podcasts increased its share by 4.3%. The data also doesn’t show YouTube, Global Player or BBC Sounds.
- May 20: Spotify has been criticised for listing spam podcasts that operate as links to websites for illegal drugs. Previous industries who have targeted free podcast hosts like Spotify also include book piracy and sex workers. Spotify say they’ve removed them.
- May 19: Podcasts work best when you can find them in every podcast directory, not just Apple and Spotify. Here’s a big list of all the podcast directories you should be in.
- May 16: Spotify announced a change in the way they will display play-counts for podcasts. "To help celebrate growth, plays will be presented as incremental milestones instead of precise figures, beginning once an episode hits 50K plays. Creators will still see their precise numbers in their private dashboards." There's more detail in the Spotify for Creators blog.
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