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Spotify said it has rebounded from the slump it suffered at the height of the coronavirus pandemic as it continued to add subscribers.The Swedish streaming giant’s chief executive Daniel Ek
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Spotify is digging deeper into podcasting in a new partnership Riot Games, maker of the battle royale video game “League of Legends.” The deal will include an original podcast series for “League of Legends,” as well as playlists inspired by the gaming community. It also will give users a look at the creation of the …
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Michelle Obama’s first guest on her new Spotify podcast was husband Barack Obama. She revealed, “One of the reasons I fell in love with you is because you are guided by the principle that we are each other’s brothers’ and sisters’ keepers.” The former president shot back, “It wasn’t just my looks … that’s OK.” …
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Music streaming giant Spotify deepened its loss in the second quarter, even as its total pool of monthly active users neared the 300 million mark. The Stockholm-based company said its net loss swelled to $418 million from a loss of $76 million a year earlier because of dried-up advertising and higher-than-expected payroll taxes linked to …
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Taylor Swift’s latest album “Folklore” is breaking the Internet. Since dropping last Thursday at midnight, “Folklore” was streamed 80.6 million times on Spotify, breaking the Swedish company’s record for first-day album streams by a female artist, it said. “Folklore” is also the most-streamed pop album on Apple Music in 24 hours with 35.5 million streams, …
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Universal Music Group and music streaming giant Spotify inked a multiyear global licensing pact on Wednesday. The deal will allow Universal — the world’s largest record label which reps the likes of Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Drake and Kanye West — to promote its artists on Spotify’s platform and be an early adapter of the …
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Spotify, Pinterest and Tinder crashed Friday morning — and Facebook is the suspected culprit. Users are reporting that dozens of iPhone and iPad apps went down, according to DownDetector.com, and initial investigations point to Facebook’s software development kit (SDK) as the probable cause. Many of the broken apps rely on SDK to manage user logins, …
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Stassi Schroeder’s podcast, “Straight Up With Stassi,” has been dropped by all major platforms after she was fired from “Vanderpump Rules” after making a false police report on her former castmate Faith Stowers. Radio.com released a statement Wednesday saying, “We recently learned of racially charged and inappropriate actions by Stassi Schroeder during one of her …
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Spotify’s blockbuster deal to acquire Joe Rogan’s popular podcast reportedly has a price tag larger than $100 million — one of the most lucrative ever in the industry. The staggering amount is the likely value of the streaming service’s multiyear licensing agreement for “The Joe Rogan Experience” based on performance metrics and milestones, The Wall …
Spotify said it has rebounded from the slump it suffered at the height of the coronavirus pandemic as it continued to add subscribers.The Swedish streaming giant’s chief executive Daniel Ek
