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 675 million monthly active users comprising 263 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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- Mar 25: Semafor suggest that Spotify offers this product. It doesn’t; videos on Spotify do not have dynamic ad insertion, and uploading a video episode replaces any audio episode.
- Mar 24: What counts as a “play” in the analytics in Apple Podcasts Connect? According to podcast growth agency Bumper, it’s every time you hit the play button in Apple Podcasts. Pause a show to answer a call, then hit play again? That’s two plays. Take your AirPods out to ask for a coffee on your way to work, before putting them back in again? That’s two plays. No wonder a recent episode of our podcast shows 32 listeners but 232 plays! The detail appears in a piece from Bumper showing how to combine audio and video podcast data from different sources, which also reminds us that YouTube doesn’t actually tell us how it calculates a ‘play’ at all.
- Mar 19: Spotify 🎶 is rolling out an expanded set of emoji reactions 😀 to comments 😡 about your podcast 🎤. YouTube 📺 has comments ✍️ for everything (though in YouTube Music 🎸 you can only see 👀 them on mobile 📱 not desktop 🖥️) but in YouTube you can only thumbs up 👍 and thumbs down 👎. 💩
- Mar 14: Spotify has removed some podcast episodes by Andrew Tate from its platform. Spotify says the content was removed because it violated its policies, and his content has already been removed by YouTube and TikTok. Tate, a self-described misogynist, faces charges of human trafficking of minors, rape and money laundering - which he denies. He is a long-time friend of Donald Trump Jr, and was allowed to return to the US after the change in administration.
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