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Spotify now has 100M paid subscribers, double Apple Music’s last reported number
Spotify paid subscribers have now reached 100M, double the last number Apple Music reported back in January. Spotify announced the number in its latest earnings report, for the first quarter of the year … Almost half of the company’s users are now paid subscribers.
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EU to launch formal competition inquiry into Apple over Spotify’s complaints
In March, we covered Spotify’s It’s time to play fair campaign where the company laid out reasons it felt Apple wasn’t playing fair. Like most services, Apple obligates Spotify to pay a 30% cut in order to use in-app purchases when signing up new subscribers (it drops to 15% in year two of the subscription). Ultimately, Spotify wanted the EU to probe built-in Apple Music in relation to how Apple treats its competitors vs its own businesses.
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Spotify mimics the radio with a news and music playlist for drivers
All it’s missing is weather and traffic
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If you see strange charges from Spotify on your bank account, you aren't alone
Several Canadians are in the process of retrieving money removed from their bank accounts this past weekend by Spotify, a music streaming service to which they did not subscribe.
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Spotify wants to know where you live and will be checking in
If you're using Spotify's Premium Family plan, the music service will need your address.
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Spotify Saved the Music Industry. Now What?
Profits are hard to come by—and Apple and Amazon aren't going away.
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Spotify is profitable once again as it cuts costs and adds cheaper plans
Spotify announced today that it beat expectations for third-quarter revenue and posted an operating profit of €54 million (about $60 million). This marks the third time in its history that the company has turned a profit, but one of those profits was the result of a tax windfall in 2018 that pushed it into the black.
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#000 - The Patient Will See You Now
Hi!My name is Robert, and I'm a Junior Doctor currently in Scotland. I am starting a podcast that I hope will be interesting and educational for everyone that's interested in medicine and people's personal lives. In this podcast, I hope to explain a certain disease in a way that's easy to understand for everyone, and then I interview people who have that specific disease.
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Spotify is pausing political ads in 2020
The move follows stricter bans by other platforms like Twitter and Google
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Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
Today I’m going to write about podcasting, with some observations on how a media market that is far healthier than online publishing functions. But first, a quick update on the Democratic Party cartel . Most people saw the fiasco of the Iowa caucuses as a political story, which it obviously is. But it’s also a monopoly story.
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Spotify lets you edit your profile from the mobile app
Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming services, and with good reason. It has the best algorithms for guessing what new music you'll like from its vast catalog. Another great feature that Spotify has to offer is its social integration. If you want, your friends will be able to see what you're listening to so that they can check it out. Until now, you've only been able to change your profile picture and username on the website, but as of this week, you can edit your profile from the mobile app too.
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Spotify now lets Premium users hide songs they don’t want to hear from playlists
Skip before you ever reach the track.
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How to hide songs on other people's Spotify playlists
Spotify today rolled out a small update for its Premium users. Now you can hide songs you don’t like that are in playlists you didn’t create, effectively letting you customize the playlists to your liking.
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New Podcast Explores Whether the Scorpions Hit 'Wind of Change' Was Written by the CIA
Eight-episode documentary series from journalist Patrick Radden Keefe to premiere on Spotify
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Pandora shows Spotify how to make a proper Apple Watch app
Pandora is out with an update today that brings Siri support to its Apple Watch app as well as improving Siri support on iOS. The underdog music service that is Pandora continues to show Spotify how third-party music services should work on the Apple Watch. Pandora now supports two key features that are must-haves on watchOS…
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Switching from Spotify to YouTube Music: My experience after one month
I've been using Spotify for as far as I can remember, and decided to subscribe to Premium in 2014. I've been able to cast music to my speakers, download...
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‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to become a Spotify exclusive, leaving Apple Podcasts - 9to5Mac
Joe Rogan has announced today that his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience will become a Spotify exclusive starting later this year. The show is currently available on a variety of platforms, with full video versions posted to YouTube. As of today, it sits in second place on the Apple Podcasts charts.
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Spotify podcast deal could make Joe Rogan world's highest paid broadcaster
Streaming service must convince podcast listeners to switch from their favourite app
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Spotify is getting rid of its ridiculous 10,000 song library cap
Probably the biggest drawback to Spotify as a heavy user has been the arbitrarily low music library cap the company imposed.
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Spotify catches up with Apple Music with new lyric song search feature
Spotify has rolled out a useful new feature today for iOS and Android that allows users to search for songs by its lyrics, something that Apple Music users have enjoyed for a couple of years.
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