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Spotify Shutters Live Audio App
Spotify is shutting down its standalone live audio app, Spotify Live, at the end of this month as the audio giant turns away from live programming, a company spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday. As user interest in the live audio app Clubhouse gained momentum during the earlier months of the pandemic, Spotify sought […]
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Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery Among Top Hollywood Stock Gainers in First Quarter
Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global were among the hit Hollywood stocks of the first quarter of 2023, shaking off investor concerns about such industry challenges as record cord-cutting, getting streaming businesses to profitability and economic clouds darkening the advertising outlook, as well as recent stock market volatility due to the collapse of banks. […]
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Spotify Talent Emma Chamberlain, Bill Simmons Dissect the Art of the Podcast Interview
On Wednesday, Spotify hosted a cross-generational conversation between popular Gen Z content creator Emma Chamberlain and The Ringer founder and CEO Bill Simmons. Both have podcasts in common: Chamberlain’s Anything Goes podcast has been hosted by Spotify for only two weeks as part of an exclusive deal (and has already more than doubled in listenership, […]
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Spotify Unveils Major Redesign With Vertical Home Feed
The TikTokification of Spotify has begun. The audio giant is refreshing its home page with a vertical feed that is meant to better integrate Spotify’s offerings across music, podcasts, videos and audiobooks. Users will be given video previews of music and podcasts that they can scroll through, with recommendations powered by machine learning, on the […]
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Behind Spotify’s Growing DC Comics Audioverse
As James Gunn and Peter Safran reshape the DC universe at Warner Bros. Discovery, film and TV aren’t the only mediums where iconic characters like Batman, Harley Quinn and the Joker are taking on new lives. Thanks to an expansive, multiyear first-look deal with Spotify, DC has attracted new and returning fans to its rich IP […]
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Pivot to … Something? The Blurry Future of Podcasting
As top podcast executives and creators gathered at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn for the Hot Pod Summit on Feb. 23, a question seemed to underlie each conversation: As the industry seeks an injection of new energy amid an advertising market correction and creators experiment with formats like video, what really is a podcast these […]
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Trevor Noah, Jared Leto, Machine Gun Kelly and More Attend Spotify’s Best New Artist Party Ahead of 2023 Grammys
For the first time since 2020, Spotify’s Best New Artist party returned to celebrate the nominees for the big four Grammy Awards category. Hosted at West Hollywood’s Pacific Design Center, the star-studded event kicked off a busy weekend of celebrations, all leading up to the year’s biggest night in music. The party featured performances from […]
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Spotify Executive Compensation: Dawn Ostroff Exit Package Revealed
Dawn Ostroff, Spotify’s former chief content and advertising business officer who led the company’s podcast expansion, will be entitled to nine months of her $1 million base salary as part of her exit package with the audio giant, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. Ostroff’s departure was first revealed […]
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Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic’ Is Finally Streaming
Dr. Dre’s classic debut album, The Chronic, will finally be available on streaming services Wednesday. The album was released on Dec. 15, 1992 on Death Row and Interscope Records, and featured the hits “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang,” “Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody’s Celebratin’)” and “Let Me Ride,” which won the rapper-producer his first […]
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Spotify Hits 205M Paying Subs, Grows Ad Revenue, But Loss Widens Amid Higher Expenses
Audio streaming giant Spotify ended 2022 with better-than-expected user growth, but its latest quarterly loss widened amid investments in podcasting growth, among other factors. The company said on Tuesday that it ended the fourth quarter with 205 million premium, or paying, subscribers, up from 195 million as of the end of the third quarter and ahead of […]
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Spotify Launches ‘Women of Iran’ Playlist Amid Continued Women-Led Revolution in Iran
Spotify has launched a new playlist to amplify the voices of Iranian women, who have for the last four months have led the fight towards human rights in Iran. The playlist, titled “Women of Iran,” includes songs by iconic Iranian singers, including Googoosh, Mahasti and Hayedeh, alongside artists like Shervin Hajipour and Toomaj Salehi, who were both arrested and imprisoned after sharing […]
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As Dawn Ostroff Exits, Spotify Rethinks Rich Talent Deals
On Jan. 23, as Spotify staff learned of plans to lay off 6 percent of the company, or about 600 people, top podcast executives at the audio giant went into damage-control mode. Most notable among the departures was Dawn Ostroff, the chief content and advertising business officer who was hired in 2018 to build out Spotify’s podcasting […]
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