People spend a lot of time in vehicles. As such, we tend to listen to a lot of music (and podcasts). Spotify wants to learn what it can about our time behind the wheel and what we listen to at the same time. As such, the company is testing an in-car device to do just […]
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Spotify The free tier of Spotify allows you to access a ton of music — but with some severe limitations, not to mention ad interruptions. Spotify Premium, however, gets you full, ad-free access to nearly everything the service offers. Right now, you can give Spotify Premium a shot for three months and pay only $0.99. […]
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Spotify finally launched its music streaming service in India in February 2019, after numerous stops and starts and despite a legal battle with Warner Music Group that rages on even today (more on this later). Indian audiences were certainly clamoring for the globally popular app, given that Spotify in India surpassed a million installs in […]
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The race to 100 million paid subscribers was won by Spotify not too long ago. And while Apple Music is reportedly leading the charge in the U.S., the last reported total was 50 million paid subs for Apple’s service. But what about Google, which, technically, has two different streaming music services? According to Bloomberg, Google […]
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In March, Spotify went all out against Apple with its Time to Play fair campaign. In a detailed writeup and website, Spotify highlighted how Apple used its dominant position in the App Store to promote Apple Music over the competition. The move seems to have paid off as the EU has launched a formal antitrust […]
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Advertisements can be annoying, and typically are. However, some companies out there are trying new ways to reduce that annoyance. Whether or not Spotify’s new interactive ads, which users can use their voice to interact with, falls in that category remains to be seen. TechCrunch has the report on Friday. Spotify is rolling out interactive […]
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Spotify today announced that it now has over 100 million paid Spotify Premium subscribers. This makes Spotify the first music streaming service to reach this mark. Spotify has 217 million monthly active users and achieved 100 million paid subscribers after an impressive 32 percent YoY growth. It also highlighted in its announcement that it has […]
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Amazon is reportedly in talks to license and offer a new premium music subscription service by the end of 2019 with high definition content. This could give Amazon’s music streaming service a major advantage over Apple Music and Spotify which have been gaining millions of subscribers every quarter. Amazon is talking to a number of […]
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