Category archives: Barry McCarthy

Spotify execs praise TikTok owner’s new Spotify rival… while trashing Apple and Amazon Music’s reach

Does Spotify really have three times the amount of listening of Amazon Music?
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Apple wanted to improve songwriter pay to $0.00091 per stream. Spotify and Google weren’t keen.

Historical filings show why Spotify believes “lower royalty rates are critical” to the service’s future
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Netflix just raised its prices for the third time since Spotify launched in the USA

Netflix’s premium tier is $4 per month more expensive than it was in 2015
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Spotify: We don’t expect major labels to ‘hand us an additional pile of gross margin’

CFO Barry McCarthy speaks frankly on subject of re-negotiations with the labels
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Spotify just turned the first net profit in its history (but it’s not particularly happy about it)

Company wanted to hire more R&D people… but couldn’t get the staff
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The exec who took Netflix public just gave a storming defence of Spotify’s future business plan

CFO Barry McCarthy explains why Daniel Ek’s company believes it will beat its rivals “like a drum”
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