Spotify
Address: Regeringsgatan 19, 111 53 Stockholm, Sweden
Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is one of the largest music streaming service providers, with over 602 million monthly active users, including 236 million paying subscribers, as of December 2023. 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
- Mar 26: Apple and Spotify measure listener retention differently, notes Pacific Content in a blog post.
- Mar 22: Joe Rogan has 14.5mn followers on Spotify, reveals Ashley Carman in Bloomberg; that’s smaller than his total subscriber number on YouTube of 16.4mn. Her compilation includes the top shows on the platform, taken from a new UX feature.
- Mar 20: Spotify has launched Podcast Streams, a tool to let creators of all sizes promote their shows to music listeners on Spotify. The tool includes a number of attribution measurement targets.
- Mar 19: Blubrry has launched Vid2Pod, a service to turn YouTube videos into open RSS audio podcasts. Post a new video on YouTube, and Vid2Pod automatically publishes an audio version for Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other services. (Here’s a demo video of the tool in action).
- Mar 15: Spotify and City, University of London announced a new bursary to join the UK's first dedicated MA in Podcasting. Spotify has provided funding for a student from a marginalised community to attend the course starting September 2024.
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