Spotify really doesn’t want you to stop subscribing – and it’s handing out Google Home Minis to help ensure you don’t

Existing subscribers in the US can get $49 speaker for free
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FREE Google Home Mini Smart Speaker For All Current and New Spotify Premium, Family Subscribers

Spotify and Google are offering a free Google Home Mini smart speaker to every subscriber – bot current and new to a Spotify Premium Individual or Premium Family plan. The streamer says it is also planning new features with Google "that will make it even easier to discover and listen…

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Spotify’s New Replay Playlist: New Algorithms Create Benefits For Fans, Artists, Labels

In this piece, Kristen Westcott Grant explores the evolving role of data algorithms in the streaming industry, and how Spotify’s continued rollouts of new personalized playlists can help not just fans and the streaming service, but also artists and labels. ______________________________ By Kristen Westcott Grant of Wescot Multimedia from Forbes…

REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

In our flip back through a full week of music industry news, we look back at CD Baby and Dash Go’s expansion into India, Google’s new plan to being linking searches to key video moments, the slashing of music on public radio, and more. CD Baby, Dash Go Expand Into…

TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot

Some of the most popular and often read articles on Hypebot this week covered how money flows from music streams into the actual artist’s pocket, the top SEO Google ranking factors in 2020, what songwriters should be doing right now to prepare for the Music Modernization Act, and more. How…

Life At Spotify: A Curated Behind The Scenes Look

Spotify this week released a series of shoer videos dubbed "Life At Spotify" that offer a curated look inside the world’s top streaming service. While quite clearly a carefully scripted PR piece, collectively they offer a look at who and what makes Spotify tick. See the full Life At Spotify…

Copyright Infringement Liability In The Music Business

Living as we are in the digital age, any company which plays host to entertainment media on a large is at constant risk of copyright infringement. Whether it’s Spotify or YouTube, difficult challenges will inevitably arise over how to best monitor for and remove infringing content. Here we look at…

CD Baby, Dash Go Expand Into India

CD Baby has expanded into India, the world’s 15th largest recorded music market, according to the IFPI. The news arrives on the heels of recent expansion into China, Canada, Columbia, Southeast Asia, and the UK over the last 16 months. The indie music distributor also announced a notable Indian music…

Spotify users in Santiago, Chile are responsible for 400m reggaetón streams on the platform each month

Listeners in Santiago are responsible for 10% of the world’s reggaetón streams
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