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Spotify upgrades Premium deal for US students

02/09/2018

Spotify has upgraded its Premium deal for US students by offering unrestricted and on-demand access to all its music and podcasts for $4.99/month, as well as a subscription to Hulu’s streaming library of current and fan-favourite TV and movie hits. And if that wasn’t a must have deal the streamer has added SHOWTIME to the plan. SHOWTIME’s premium entertainment content includes Emmy® nominated Shameless, seven-season strong Homeland, Sacha Baron-Cohen’s Who Is America, Lena Waithe’s much […]

Who is winning the Spotify v Apple Music wars?

28/08/2018

When Apple launched Apple Music in June 2015, many people confidently predicted that the David and Goliath struggle between Apple and Spotify would favour Apple with its colossal financial and marketing power combined with an installed base of hundreds of millions of iOS devices. Against all expectations Spotify has not only managed to keep ahead of Apple Music but the gap between the two streaming services has gradually widened from 20 million when Apple Music […]

Desert Island Discs and other BBC podcasts now on Spotify

15/08/2018

Spotify has added hundreds of BBC podcasts to its UK streaming service. Archives containing decades’ worth of Desert Island Discs episodes have been uploaded together with Josie Long’s Short Cuts and Brian Cox and Robin Ince’s Infinite Monkey Cage. The BBC was one of the first podcast creators in the world when it made Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’ downloadable online in 2004. Today, the BBC podcast library boasts hundreds of programmes across thousands of episodes and caters […]

11 Dance Sub Genres from Spotify to enjoy

12/08/2018

To celebrate the recent Tomorrowland festival in Belgium, Spotify’s Dance editor Austin Kramer has posted a blog showing the diversity of dance music that the platform has to offer. ‘The electronic music genre umbrella has to be the largest musical classification. It’s crazy how so many descriptors were accepted throughout its evolution,’ says Kramer. ‘House, rave, club, EDM, dance, electronic are all part of the culture. The semantics all dissolve to one thing: how it […]

Spotify and Samsung form new partnership

11/08/2018

Spotify and Samsung form new partnership to give Samsung users a seamless listening experience between devices. Spotify has been named as Samsung’s new go-to music service provider offering the only full integration to Samsung devices which includes Bixby – Samsung’s premier voice solution. In a blog posting, Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek explained the reasons behind the Spotify and Samsung integration saying, ‘We’ve studied how people use Spotify. We know that listeners stream different kinds of […]

Spotify grows users, revenues and losses

02/08/2018

Despite record growth Spotify continues to lose money and is forecast to continue on a losing streak for the next two quarters according to its latest (Q2 2018) financial reports. Spotify grew its user base finishing the quarter with 180 million Monthly Active Users (MAU) and 83 million Premium Subscribers, up 30% and 40% respectively year on year. Revenue for the quarter was €1,273 million, up 26% and 34% year on year for the two […]

Spotify releases new music for playlist consideration feature

20/07/2018

Spotify releases new music for playlist consideration feature to give artists, labels and teams an easy way to submit unreleased music directly to Spotify’s editorial team for playlist consideration. Released in beta, the feature is part of Spotify for Artists and Spotify Analytics designed to make it easier for artists and labels to share unreleased music with Spotify’s editors so they can create better playlists and artists have a better shot at landing on one. […]