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Right now it seems Spotify can do no wrong; the streaming music platform is steadily growing numbers, more people are paying to stream music and somehow music industry distributors and artists are seeing it as the spot to be. This wave of good fortune has obviously given the founders and engineers some verve and given [...]
December 8th, 2012 by Anthony West
Anyone doubting the resurgence of online radio and streaming music in general need look no further than Pandora. Unlike its quasi-competitor, Spotify, the online radio company has been growing users steadily all the while keeping the balance sheet healthy. Latest earnings figures show that Pandora has been consistently out-performing the analysts and for Q3 2013, [...]
December 6th, 2012 by Anthony West
If there was any doubt that people are keen on Spotify then the company’s release of what’s been popular this year should put the whole debate to rest. Since launch in the U.S., Spotify has grown from strength to strength and now boats over 22 million monthly active users. 7.7 million of those users use [...]
November 30th, 2012 by Anthony West
MySpace may have given up trying to grab back its glory from Facebook but the former number one social network in the world hasn’t lost its desire to remain relevant. The outfit that was once the number one destination for social networkers in the world has been busy redefining itself among music lovers and rumour [...]
November 25th, 2012 by Anthony West
Music is big business these days and every tech company seems to want a piece of the action. The latest player to join the fray in a big way is Google, which according to reports has just signed a multi-million dollar deal with European music publishers. This is of course big news for the millions [...]
November 20th, 2012 by Anthony West
When Spotify announced its plans to bring its service stateside, a few analysts said flatly that “it wouldn’t fly.” For these analysts, the widespread availability of music downloads and the ever increasing indifference towards paid music subscription was too much of a hurdle to overcome. Spotify wasn’t going to be discouraged though and in July [...]
November 12th, 2012 by Anthony West
Online radio is sort of a big thing right now and the top players are having a field day. All that may change soon though and one of the companies that may be facing a lot of competitive heat is Pandora. A report coming out of Bloomberg is suggesting that Apple may be getting ready [...]
October 27th, 2012 by Anthony West
The latest set of data on how we access our music may not be good reading for record label executives. According to Lab42, more than 60% of people download free music. With 45% of people listening to 10 hours or more of music each week, this amounts to a massive chunk of lost revenue. The [...]
August 28th, 2012 by Anthony West
Streaming music provider is moving up in the world—fast! It is barley 12 months since the service launched in the US and already it is amassing a large pool of paying customers. The company is announcing 15 million active members with over 4 million of those members coughing up cash for its premium services. The [...]
August 20th, 2012 by Anthony West
Spotify has proven that people will pay for music and despite skepticism from many in the industry; the European-based company is doing quite well stateside. According to new data released by the company, the US side of the business is doing so much better than expected and US listeners streamed over 13 billion songs in [...]
August 8th, 2012 by Anthony West
Spotify looks set to become a $1 billion+ company a year in terms of revenue having just recorded $887 million in sales for the first quarter of 2012. The figure was divulged during a recent interview given by CEO, Daniel Ek and has set the tech space abuzz. No-one expected Spotify to make this much [...]
April 29th, 2012 by Anthony West
Barak Obama is one of those presidents that just ooze cool; not only is he good with a basketball, he’s also perhaps the most tech savvy leader the world has ever seen. Just in case his social media and tech credentials were ever in doubt, the President has set new standards again by signing up [...]
February 22nd, 2012 by Anthony West
The way things have been working out for Spotify sort of makes you wonder if record executives are working too hard to kill online freedom. Not only are people signing up the service like crazy, they are converting into paying customers at a rate of 20%. At that rate, Spotify is doing better than most [...]
February 3rd, 2012 by Anthony West
When the folks over at Spotify looks back at 2011, they’ll probably smile, and marvel at the tremendous success the year has brought them. Indeed, the streaming online music and media company had such a stellar year; it influenced the fortunes of even its competitors—Pandora.com being one of them. The past year saw Spotify launch [...]
January 6th, 2012 by Anthony West
Some people reading or seeing this article or other articles and advertisements about Spotify, may be asking, “What is Spotify?”. Well according to their web site, which one should check out if interested, one of their main slogans says “All music, all the time.” The web site also puts it quite simply by describing Spotify [...]
December 5th, 2011 by Daniel Renfro
It hasn’t been a full year since Spotify launched its streaming music service to US users but already Spotify is proving to be a hit—literally! The company is now reporting that a staggering 2.5 million people are signed up to its service (that is 2.5 million people willing to actually pay for music). This number [...]
November 28th, 2011 by Anthony West
It is starting to look like the prediction that music fans would never fork out money to pay for a streaming service has fallen flat on its face. News is emerging that since Spotify.com launched in the US, music fans have been tripping over each other to sign up for premium access. The latest figures [...]
October 20th, 2011 by Anthony West
Everybody has a favorite song, a favorite band or artist, or favorite genre in general that they like to keep up with. The only issue some people face is where to get the latest and greatest or to find the classics that they can’t get enough of. Spotify is a music downloading web site where [...]
October 4th, 2011 by Daniel Renfro
