Spotify Wrapped 2024 has landed, and it’s that time of the year again when the streaming platform summarises your music experience for the year. This year’s Wrapped adds new features, including an AI-generated podcast that discusses your music habits for the year. Like in previous …
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Spotify Announces New Payout Model to Reward Creators
Spotify is aiming to give YouTube a run for its money with its new “Partner Program.” The new program will launch on January 2, 2025, offering both “audience-driven payouts” from Spotify’s premium video and “an ads component” so creators can earn from their viral audio …
You Can Now Add a Song to Your Spotify Library Directly from Instagram
Instagram and Spotify have announced a new integration that will let users add songs directly from Instagram posts or stories to their Spotify library, 9to5Mac reported. When users tap on a song that appears on an Instagram post or Story, they will see a new …
You Can Now Watch Music Videos on Spotify
Spotify is rolling out music videos in beta to premium subscribers. The streaming giant announced on Wednesday, but the feature is only available to users in 11 selected markets for now. Currently, there is a limited catalogue of music videos from fan favourites such as …
Spotify Now Has 236 Million Paid Subscribers
Spotify recorded one of the best fourth-quarter performances in its history despite laying off 17 per cent of its workforce and a price hike last year. The company’s premium subscriber count grew 15 percent year over year bringing its total paid subscribers to 236 million. …
Spotify Increases the Price of Its Premium Plans
Spotify has announced a price increase to its Premium plans. The Premium Single price is going up by a Dollar from $9.99 to $10.99 for subscribers in the US. The price hike is Spotify’s first since the company launched its Premium tier over a decade …
Spotify Surges Past 500 Million Monthly Active Users
Spotify recorded its strongest first-quarter results since going public in 2018 in Q1 2023. As of March 31st, the streaming giant announced that its monthly active users grew to 515 million, a 22 per cent increase year-over-year. The company’s user base grew by 26 million, …
Spotify Replaces Heart Icon with ‘New and Improved’ Plus Button
Spotify is retiring the heart icon that lets you save songs and add them to your playlist. In a blog post on Monday, the music streaming giant announced that it is “consolidating the heart icon and the Add to playlist” into one symbol – the …
Spotify Surges Past 200M Paid Subscribers Despite Mounting Losses
Spotify announced its Q4 2022 earnings today, revealing that it now has 205 million paid subscribers, which is a 14 per cent increase year-on-year. The audio streaming company now has 489 million monthly active users (MAUs), representing a 20 per cent increase year-on-year. Despite the …
Spotify Updates Blend with Up to 10 People and Artists
Spotify’s blended playlist is now better than ever. Last year, the audio streaming giant introduced Blend, a feature that automatically creates a shared playlist of two friends or family members into a single playlist based on the platform’s personalization capabilities. A blended playlist can now …
Spotify Launches Clubhouse-like app, Greenroom
The success of Clubhouse meant it was only a matter of time before we started seeing rival apps. Twitter and Facebook have already come up with their own similar live-audio social network, today Spotify has announced the launch of its own similar service called Greenroom. …
Spotify Adds Offline Music Downloads on Apple Watch
Spotify announced on Friday it was rolling out the ability for Premium users to download playlists, albums and podcasts on Apple Watch. Users with Apple Watch Series 3 or later, or with watchOS 6.0+ (7.1+ recommended) will be able to enjoy this feature. “We’re rolling …
Spotify Officially Launches in Nigeria on Google Play and Apple App Store
Yesterday, Spotify announced it is expanding into more than 80 new markets spread across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America. The audio streaming app officially made its debut today on the Nigerian Google Play and Apple App Stores. Android users can download it …
Spotify Expanding to 85 New Markets Including Nigeria and Ghana
Spotify’s quest for world domination gathered momentum today as the audio streaming giant announced what will be its biggest market expansion to date. Spotify is launching in more than 80 new countries around the world which means its audio streaming service will be reaching an …
Spotify Now Has 155 Million Premium Subscribers
Music streaming giant, Spotify blazed past 150 million premium subscribers in its Q4 2020 earnings report. The company now has 155 million subscribers and 345 million monthly active users, a 24 per cent and 27 per cent increase respectively year-over-year. Last quarter, the company reported …
Spotify to Acquire Podcast Hosting and Ad Company Megaphone for $235M
Spotify today announced it is acquiring podcast hosting and ad company, Megaphone in a deal reported to be worth $235M. The deal is targeted at the company’s ad services since Spotify already had an existing partnership in place with Megaphone which included making use of …










