SoundCloud, with more than 200m tracks on its platform, saw annual revenues top $200m last year

Company gives update on 2019 as 2018 results are laid bare
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 War Is Over: Spotify and Warner Chappell sign global licensing agreement – including India

Landmark case ends in a fresh deal between Spotify and Warner Chappell
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Spotify’s Global Marketing Lead joins Twitch as Director of Marketing, EMEA

Exec exits as SPOT hires for Head of Global Marketing Strategy role in New York
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Spotify launches ‘Streaming Ad Insertion’ tool for podcast advertising

Spotify is getting serious about podcast advertising. Last July, we asked if podcasts can help the company to scale its ad business and if so, how? At the time, we forecast, based on a clue given to MBW in October 2018 by Brian Benedik, Spotify’s…

How podcasts are damaging the potential growth of the recorded music business

Music streaming services – particularly Spotify – are morphing into something else entirely
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Is it time for Spotify and other streaming services to increase their prices?

Survey finds that more than half of respondents would pay more than $9.99 for a subscription
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Spotify Marquee ads cost 55 cents per click; advises spend of at least $5k – report

Targeted pop-up visual ads were announced in October
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