The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2022

This week, Neil Young published an open letter demanding Spotify remove his music because he didn’t want to share the platform with podcaster Joe Rogan. It appears Young is getting his wish, as Spotify is now removing his music, according to The Wall Street Journal. “I Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images.

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As we approach the end of 2023, it’s time to uncover the musical gems that defined your year with Spotify Fanalytics. While we eagerly await Spotify’s Wrapped feature, a third-party tool called Spotify Fanalytics is here to give you a sneak peek into your music preferences. What is Spotify Fanalytics?

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Spotify is the latest brand to contend with cancel culture.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

But the biggest subscription music service of all, Spotify, seems likely to miss its original target for launching a higher-quality streaming plan. Spotify HiFi, first announced all the way back in February , has yet to roll out despite the company’s early estimate that it would debut “later this year.” Spotify HiFi could be near.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you want to know how to make a playlist in a bottle on Spotify, you are at the right place. Have you stumbled upon Spotify’s latest feature and found yourself wondering about the ins and outs of making a playlist in a bottle? Here is how to make a playlist in a bottle on Spotify! Here are all the details about it!

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2022

Spotify’s name will be featured on FC Barcelona’s jerseys for the next four seasons. Image by FC Barcelona/Spotify. Spotify’s name will also appear on the jerseys of both the men’s and women’s teams for the next four seasons starting in the 2022/23 season. Spotify wants to bring “the worlds of music and football together”.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

If you can’t connect to Spotify or Discord, then no, it’s not just you or your internet connection. The Spotify Status account tweeted that “we’re looking into it,” but didn’t offer any other details about what’s going on. Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) March 8, 2022. Alex Castro / The Verge. Thanks for your reports!

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TechSpot

JULY 27, 2022

Spotify started testing a voice-controlled device for cars back in 2019. Dubbed Car Thing, it was initially only available to a small group of invited Spotify Premium members in the US. The device represented Spotify's first foray into hardware although the company insisted it was more about learning how people.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Spotify says it’s retiring its Car View feature, which was introduced at the beginning of 2019 as a way to make the app less distracting and easier to control while driving ( via 9to5Google ). This however doesn’t mean we don’t want to improve on how our users listen to Spotify while driving. For example: “play Adele on Spotify.”

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

Spotify now supports video podcasts, starting with a handful of shows that can be viewed by most free and premium users. For now, though, only certain podcasts are able to post video to Spotify; most podcasters won’t be able to upload their own video footage. This feature sets Spotify up to compete with YouTube on podcasting.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Spotify released its quarterly earnings today during a particularly fraught time for the company. Its star podcaster, Joe Rogan, spurred multiple musicians to pull their discographies from the platform over his show’s spreading of misinformation; Spotify-employed podcasters themselves spoke out , and even the White House responded.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2022

Barack and Michelle Obama won’t be signing a new podcast deal with Spotify, Bloomberg reports , marking a major departure for the Obamas’ production company, Higher Ground Productions. Higher Ground had talked to Spotify as well, but it “declined to make an offer,” Bloomberg says. Spotify spokesperson Grey Munford declined to comment.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MARCH 4, 2024

In response to the decision, Apple fired back at the EU and Spotify , saying the move “just cements the dominant position of a successful European company that is the digital music market’s runaway leader.” The European Commission on Monday slammed Apple with a huge $1.95 Apple will appeal.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Spotify has unveiled Voice Translation for podcasts, a new pilot service that utilizes AI to translate audio shows into various languages. Through the application of machine learning techniques, podcasts can maintain the original podcaster's voice, resulting in a more natural sound. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Joe Rogan, comedian and host of one of the most popular podcasts in the world, is taking his show to Spotify. The Joe Rogan Experience will soon become a Spotify exclusive , meaning episodes’ full audio and video will only be available through the platform starting later this year. The show comes to Spotify on September 1st.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Spotify was down for nearly an hour today, after a widespread outage affected users in countries across Europe and beyond. The music streaming service stopped working for many at around 4:15AM ET, and Spotify rectified the issues after nearly an hour. Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) November 27, 2020. Need more help?

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

If you got in your car and suddenly found that Spotify’s Car View feature had mysteriously disappeared, I’m sorry to say that no, it’s not a bug. Spotify actually announced—although “whispered” would be more accurate—that it was killing Car View more than a month ago, but it looks like it hadn’t gotten to actually… Read more.

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The Verge

MARCH 25, 2022

Spotify is the latest company to suspend its services there. Spotify is suspending its services in Russia as the country’s invasion of Ukraine continues into its second month. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. The company expects for service to be fully suspended by early April, the spokesperson said.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2021

Microsoft is planning to integrate Spotify into a new Windows 11 feature. Focus Sessions includes Spotify integration, allowing you to create a focus timer to work through tasks while listening to playlist of music from Spotify. Microsoft’s Spotify integration could be the company’s way of standing out from the crowd.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Around 70 episodes of Joe Rogan’s podcast mysteriously disappeared from Spotify on Friday, as spotted by JREMissing.com , a web tool that tracks missing episodes. Spotify has deleted two of my @joerogan appearances pic.twitter.com/ZjKu8TUgcO — Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) February 4, 2022. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2021

A Verge investigation shows how going exclusive stunted Rogan’s power When Spotify decided to try to become the biggest podcasting platform in the world, it knew it needed a nuclear weapon: Joe Rogan. The company confirmed that he quickly became the platform’s biggest podcaster after jumping to Spotify.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 19, 2024

Have you heard about Spotify’s new feature, the Daylist? Today, we will show you how to find Spotify Daylist Everyone’s talking about how to find it. Are you curious about how to find your Daylist on Spotify? Whether you’re a long-time Spotify fan or just getting started, this guide will show you how to do it.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Third wave of Spotify layoffs in 2023… CEO Daniel Ek revealed this decision on Monday, indicating a “significant” strategic redirection for the music-streaming giant. Spotify is not an exception to these realities,” Ek expressed in a staff letter posted on the company’s website.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Spotify has introduced an innovative feature harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI). Spotify touts this feature as a game-changer for podcast enthusiasts, offering “a more authentic listening experience that sounds more personal and natural than traditional dubbing.” Your multilingual podcast journey awaits!

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2022

Spotify is disbanding its founding podcast studio and laying off some of the team. An affected employee tells The Verge that Studio 4, or Spotify Studios as it’s been referenced externally, consisted of 10 to 15 employees and produced shows like Dissect and Chapo: Kingpin on Trial. Spotify declined to comment.

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TechSpot

JUNE 20, 2023

Spotify's audiobook business is separate from its streaming music effort, meaning books are sold a la carte and are not part of a subscription model. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Spotify writes that it partnered with Musixmatch, which already powers the service’s lyrics search, to integrate live lyrics into the “majority” of Spotify tracks. Both premium and free users will have access to the feature, available across the desktop app, iOS and Android devices, TV, and consoles. The company has.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2022

You’ve probably seen this by now, but to catch you up if not: On Monday, Neil Young issued an ultimatum to Spotify: keep Joe Rogan or me. I sincerely hope that other artists and record companies will move off the Spotify platform and stop supporting Spotify’s deadly misinformation about COVID,” he says. Buy some CDs?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Spotify’s Christmas Hits playlists was one of the ones to get an accompanying story. Screenshot: Spotify. Spotify is testing a new Snapchat-style Stories feature alongside some of its playlists. Spotify has stories now. S P O T I F Y This has got to stop pic.twitter.com/xsurbrJblx — TmarTn (@TmarTn) November 27, 2020.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Spotify reportedly paid Joe Rogan at least $200 million to commit to podcasting on the platform exclusively for three and a half years, according to a New York Times report. Rogan later apologized for using the slur and also making a racist joke, but Spotify never commented publicly. Photo by Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Image: Spotify. And now, Spotify is joining in. Similar to Apple’s own widgets for Apple Music, Spotify’s serve as a means of quickly getting back to something you were recently listening to. You can pick between small and medium sizes, but Spotify doesn’t yet offer a large-sized iOS 14 widget.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 31, 2023

Spotify noted continued strength in multi-user premium plans. Monthly active users (which combine both premium and ad supported users) reached 489 million, a quarter over quarter increase of seven percent compared to last quarter's 456 million monthly active users.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The yearly Spotify Wrapped is a rather upbeat affair, which doesn’t doesn’t quite match everyone’s mood this year. If you want to be judged, you open a page titled “How Bad is Your Spotify” and you log in with your Spotify account. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. And you know what? It’s right.

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The Verge

JANUARY 29, 2022

Joni Mitchell has decided to remove all of her music from Spotify, joining Neil Young in protest of Joe Rogan’s podcast that Young says spreads misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines (via The Wall Street Journal ). “I I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify,” The Canadian singer-songwriter writes in a post on her website.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Spotify quietly updated its autoplay feature with a seriously frustrating quirk. When you play music on your Spotify Connect devices, autoplay is now enabled by default and there’s no way to turn it off. Users have voiced their complaints in the Spotify Community forum for weeks, filling an ongoing thread with their grievances.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Klio, a platform open-sourced by Spotify, enables media file processing for the purposes of AI and machine learning research. Read More.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2020

Spotify listening hours have returned to the same level they was at prior to the pandemic, the company announced today in its latest earnings release. Spotify also said that overall podcast consumption has more than doubled. Spotify also said that overall podcast consumption has more than doubled.

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