Spotify Premium users in US get Audiobook access
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Spotify Premium users in US get Audiobook access

Spotify Premium users in US are to get Audiobook access for up to 15 hours per month as part of their subscription plan. They now join those in the UK and Australia who received this upgrade in October 2023. At launch there were 150,000 audiobooks available in this plan upgrade but this has now been increased to over 200.000. Fifteen hours should get you around two average audiobooks per month, but if you do hit the limit, […]

Spotify’s Gen Z users streamed 560 Bn songs in first half of 2023
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Spotify’s Gen Z users streamed 560 Bn songs in first half of 2023

Spotify’s Gen Z users streamed 560 Bn songs in first half of 2023 according to Spotify’s annual Gen Z trend report – Culture Next Volume 05. The report based on an international survey of Gen Z (15-24) Spotify users as well as their Millennial (25-40) counterparts in June 2023. In the first half of 2023, Gen Z listened to over 560 Bn songs and more than 3 Bn podcast episodes — a 76% increase over […]

Half of Gen Z think that AI is unlikely to replace artists
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Half of Gen Z think that AI is unlikely to replace artists

Half of Gen Z think that AI is unlikely to replace artists according to a recent survey by FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. The study conducted in association with the Municipality of Naples and the Giffoni Innovation Hub were presented at the Giffoni Film Festival at the end of July 2023. The investigation was launched at the Digital Music Forum in Naples on the 20th June this year and set out to explore […]

Gen Z Americans discover podcasts through social media
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Gen Z Americans discover podcasts through social media

Gen Z Americans discover podcasts through social media with 24 million regular monthly listeners according to a recent report from Edison Research in partnership with  SXM Media. The Gen Z Podcast Listener Report is based on a survey of 1003 US individuals aged between 13 and 24 during April 2023 plus a number of in-depth interviews. Key findings from the report 47% of the Gen Z (age 13-24) online population in the US are monthly podcast listeners, […]

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Gen Z consumers plan to stream more music in 2022

Gen Z consumers plan to stream more music in 2022 according to YouGov’s recently released Global Media Outlook Report 2022. Across the 17 international markets surveyed, a higher proportion of consumers plan to stream more music in the next 12 months (22%) compared to listening to more radio (17%) and more podcasts (16%). Younger generations are set to boost the popularity of streaming music as well as podcasts. About two in five (38%) Gen Z […]