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Spotify extends AI lead over Apple Music with AI playlists feature

Spotify is rolling out a new chatbot-based AI playlists option in the UK and Australia.

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Spotify is reportedly hiking prices again in the UK for the second time in a year

Subscribers may have to pay an extra £19 a year as Spotify looks to claw back its audiobooks investment

Evening Standard

Joni Mitchell's Music Returns To Spotify After Two-Year Absence

Joni Mitchell's music makes a comeback on Spotify after a protest, along with Neil Young's return.

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Finding new artists on Spotify just got harder after layoffs put an end to useful music encyclopedia, and I’m tired of it

Spotify's cost-cutting drive means one of the best third party Spotify sites has lost all access to the service.

TechRadar

Meghan Markle Has Signed a New Podcast Deal 8 Months After Spotify Canceled Their Partnership

And 'Archetypes' is coming back!

Marie Claire

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek thinks his staff are just salaried algorithms

If you’re worried about losing your job to AI, act fast to show you deliver more value than ChatGPT.

Evening Standard

Apple's new policy is a step in the wrong direction" — Microsoft's Xbox chief slams new App Store changes coming to the EU

Microsoft's Xbox president is not happy with the changes coming to Apple's App Store in the EU.

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'Apple's new policy is a step in the wrong direction.' Microsoft, Spotify, decry Apple's 'compliance' with new European app store rules

Apple's malicious compliance with new the EU's Digital Markets Act isn't sitting well with Epic Games, Spotify, or Microsoft. Here's what the companies had to say.

Windows Central

Frustration mounts as Roblox investors await returns on Gen Z metaverse sensation

Even as the platform registers surging growth in users and engagement, CEO David Baszucki has been advised to take a page from Spotify peer Daniel Ek and cut costs.

Fortune

What the sudden exit of Spotify’s CFO says about the skills companies want in 2024

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek seeks a finance chief with experience to support the company's "new phase."

Fortune

Spotify CFO cashed in $9M worth of stock after mass layoffs

The CFO reshuffle comes after boss Daniel Ek announced the company’s biggest-ever layoffs to return to its roots as a lean and scrappy underdog.

Fortune

Spotify announces CFO to leave, days after he cashed in $9.3m in shares

Paul Vogel moved to sell stock as shares soared after it was revealed 1,500 jobs would be cut

The Guardian - UK

Spotify faces the music after Daniel Ek wields the layoff axe—but is it smart cost-cutting or the beginning of a spiral?

Tight margins, fights with Big Tech, and an uncertain business model likely won’t be solved by the group’s cull of 1,500 workers.

Fortune

Spotify Streamlines Operations: Cuts Nearly 1,600 Jobs Amid Escalating Costs

This is the third and most substantial round of layoffs for Spotify this year, a move attributed to pressure from an activist investor.

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Spotify cuts 1,500 jobs in another round of layoffs

Spotify is not yet done laying off its employees, with another round of layoffs that cut 1,500 jobs.

Broadcasting & Cable

Happy Holidays? Spotify Conducts TMT's Biggest Layoff of 2023 Despite 11% Q3 Revenue Grow

Ho, ho ho, the stock is at a 12-month high, and the music streaming service just added 23 million subscribers, but 17% of the its workforce, over 1,500 employees, just lost their jobs anyway

International Business Times

Spotify Cuts Around 1,500 Jobs As Growth Slows

Music streaming giant Spotify said Monday it would reduce its number of employees by around 17 percent in a bid to cut costs amid "dramatically" slower economic growth.

WEKU

Spotify to cut 17% of staff in the latest round of tech layoffs

In a memo addressed to staff, CEO Daniel Ek said it was necessary for the company to "rightsize" after hiring too many people during 2020 and 2021. Roughly 1,500 workers are likely to be let go.

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Fortune

Spotify to slash headcount after CEO blasts staff for doing 'work around the work'

The founder is billing the company's biggest ever headcount reduction as a strategic return to the resourcefulness that marked its early days as a startup.

The Independent UK

Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year

Spotify says it’s axing 17% of its global workforce in the music streaming service’s third round of layoffs this year

The Guardian - UK

Spotify cuts more than 1,500 jobs amid rising costs

Music streaming service axes 17% of workforce in latest round of redundancies at big tech companies

MusicRadar

Spotify's decision to stop paying royalties on less popular tracks is "discriminatory and exploitative", says competition law expert

Others have suggested that the move indicates Spotify may eventually begin charging artists to host their music on the platform

Fortune

Spotify CEO says platform wouldn't exist today because of Apple

Ek was lambasting Apple and Google's 30% fees on their App stores as a new competition bill goes through UK parliament.

Fortune

Airbnb boss called his CEO network asking if they could hire any of the 1,900 staff he laid off

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky also discussed his friendship with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek.

The Independent UK

Spotify CEO alludes to reason why Duchess of Sussex’s podcast was cancelled

Spotify ended its reported $20m partnership with Duke and Duchess of Sussex in June

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