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Spotify launches playlists for dogs alone at home
Spotify has made playlists and a podcast for dogs to listen to in their owners’ absence, after finding that 74% of pet-owners play music for their animals. Read more…
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Spotify loses one of India’s oldest record labels
Music streaming service Spotify Technology SA said it will remove all songs belonging to one of India’s oldest record labels Read more…
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Spotify tries its hand in price conscious India
Spotify, the world’s most popular paid music streaming service, has launched in India, stepping into a price-sensitive market. Read more…
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Video ads and podcasts are paying off big for Spotify
COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) – Spotify is increasingly attracting viewers as well as listeners to its free music streaming service and is finding new ways to target adverts and podcasts at customers, its head of global Read more…
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Streaming is officially biggest revenue source for music biz: IFPI
LONDON (Reuters) – Online streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music have become the recording industry’s single biggest revenue source, overtaking physical sales of CDs and digital downloads for the first time, a trade group said Read more…
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Spotify takes on Pandora’s streaming stations with new app: report
(Reuters) – Music streaming service Spotify has been testing an app to rival Pandora Media’s streaming stations, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday. The new app, called “Stations by Spotify”, was visible on the Google Play Store Read more…
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Apple and Spotify just fortified their streaming duopoly
With a new alliance between Spotify and Tencent and the acquisition of Shazam by Apple, the big players are getting their ducks in a row to dominate the global streaming music industry. Following on from Read more…
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Spotify bags second major-label deal as Sony signs on
(Reuters) – Spotify has reached a licensing deal with a second major label, Sony Music Entertainment, according to media reports, setting the stage for a US stock market listing by the music streaming leader. Recently Read more…