Spotify Car Thing gets new features in an upgrade to its smart player that was officially released in February in the US. Car Thing makes it simpler to play exactly what you want, thanks to the intuitive product interface and the ease of using “Hey Spotify” to control what you want to listen to. With these updates, you’ll now be able to answer phone calls on Car Thing, queue songs and podcasts, and display and […]
Instagram is to rollout messages with music previews as part of a package of seven new messaging features announced this week. You can customize your messaging threads by using these new features: Play, pause, and re-play: Enabled by integrations with Apple Music, Amazon Music and Spotify coming soon, you can now share a 30-second preview of that song you just can’t get out of your head, and your friends can listen directly from the chat window. […]
Spotify updates its Blend feature allowing you to Blend with up to 10 people in a group whether it’s your running club, favourite co-workers, group chat, book club, or chosen family. You will also be able to Blend with some of your favourite artists. Last year, Spotify took group listening a step further and launched Blend, a shared playlist that combines the best of Spotify’s personalization capabilities and collaborative playlist functionality into a single shared playlist, […]
Spotify combines music and audiobooks to create Bookcasts which blend audio storytelling with original music and sound elements in an immersive listening experience. The song-writing prowess of country icon Dolly Parton has been combined with the skillful storytelling of best-selling author James Patterson to create a unique audio experience which Spotify has christened a ‘Bookcast’. The pair has joined forces to create the Run, Rose, Run Bookcast, which combines their co-authored fiction novel with an original […]
Spotify Car Thing officially launched and is only available in the US for $89.99 but will require you to have a Spotify Premium account to use it. Back in April 2021, Spotify announced its experiment with a smart player that could seamlessly fill your car with a world of music, news, entertainment, talk, and more. Then in October, it unveiled a limited release of Car Thing to Spotify Premium users. It is now fully available in the US and […]
Spotify celebrates one year in South Korea and now delivers an average of over 7.97 Bn K-Pop streams globally per month, a 27% increase compared to the year before. Across Spotify’s 184 markets, the top 10 countries whose listeners had discovered Korean artists during the last year were the US, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Germany, UK, Philippines, Japan, and France. Listeners from these countries also went to the K-Pop hub in droves to discover new […]
Spotify subscribers hit 180 million in Q4 2021, a 16% increase year on year, according to its recently released Q4 2021 financial results. Monthly Active Users (MAU) increased 18% to 406 million. Revenue of €2,689 million was up 24% year on year in the quarter despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The streamer also showed strong growth in its advertising revenue of €394 million up 40% from a year before. The company posted a […]
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