Profits, payments and podcasts: 5 takeaways from Spotify’s Q3 earnings call

Platform confirms it’s going to charge artists and labels for tools in the future
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Spotify subscriber growth slows as paying customer base hits 87m

Spotify has revealed its latest paying subscriber numbers as part of its Q3 2018 earnings announcement. The company ended September with a global subscriber base of 87m people, it has confirmed. That represented a climb of 4m on the 83m subscribers the…

What’s the value of a song when Artificial Intelligence is everywhere?

‘AI is merely forcing us to reckon even more explicitly with the tension between originality and value, collaboration and consumption.’
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What’s the value of a song when Artificial Intelligence is everywhere?

‘AI is merely forcing us to reckon even more explicitly with the tension between originality and value, collaboration and consumption.’
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Sony Music revenues up 5.8% so far this year, sales dipped slightly in last quarter

Streaming revenues shoot up 26% in the first nine months of 2018
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Spotify ‘doing a Netflix’: is Daniel Ek’s platform already too big for the labels to stop it?

Mark Mulligan on why the major rights-holders may be facing a ‘prisoner’s dilemma’
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A&R ‘Moneyball’ is hotter than ever. But will it actually improve the music business?

After Apple’s acqui-hire of Asaii, what’s next for AI-driven artist discovery?
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Fortnite is a video game phenomenon. The music business could learn a lot from its success.

Innovating pricing and content approaches are leading to massive revenues for Epic Games title
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