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THIS LOOKS FINE ON THE SURFACE But the reaction tells you something is off. Spotify beats EPS.Revenue lands exactly in line.Users are still growing. And yet the market is not impressed. So what is actually going on here? Start with the obvious question most people skip:If everything is “solid,” why …
Reddit threads like r/stopsmoking and r/IsraelCrimes are now blocked in the UK. Spotify, dating apps, even Discord face sweeping age checks. “The rollout of the Online Safety Act has shown just how disastrous this type of regulation can be,” said Mike Stabile of the Free Speech Coalition. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/porn-censorship-is-going-to-destroy-the-entire-internet/ar-AA1KJLaS In the …
Michelle Obama’s new podcast suffers dismal ratings ranking at number 34 in the Spotify podcast charts, just weeks after launch. Episodes on YouTube have received drastically low viewing numbers with one rapid receiving just over 60,000 views. pic.twitter.com/48xAW0Sexu — Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 9, 2025
Canada has ordered large online streaming services to pay 5 percent of their Canadian revenue to the government in a program expected to raise $200 million per year to support local news and other home-grown content. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced its decision yesterday after a public …
Rapper Kanye West got a bit of victory this week over Taylor Swift, the megastar with whom he’s had a longrunning feud of sorts. On Sunday, “VULTURES,” the album by West and Ty Dolla $ign, had pushed West to the No. 1 spot on the Daily Top Artist Global chart …
Joe Rogan just signed a $250 million deal with Spotify. This deal allows him to repost content on YouTube and other podcast providers. The podcast is no longer exclusively on Spotify. Is this overall net positive and net negative for Spotify? Looks like it’s more of a revenue share deal. …
by The_Cowboy_Killer May 2013, Spotify acquired music discovery app Tunigo. March 2014, they acquired The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company. June 2015, Spotify announced they had acquired Seed Scientific, a data science consulting firm and analytics company. January 2016, they acquired social and messaging startups Cord Project and Soundwave. …
Meghan Markle’s Spotify podcast Archetypes will not be renewed for a second season, as the audio company begins to make changes and revamp its output, it has been confirmed. The streaming giant and the Sussexes’s audio production company Archewell Audio released a joint statement on Thursday night saying they have …
