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Emerging Behaviour
Jul 28, 20221 min read
strange fruits founder talks
Interesting article on MBW, interviewing Strange Fruits founder Stef van Vugt who is has created a multi million dollar industry out of...

Emerging Behaviour
Jun 10, 20221 min read
streaming bandwidth
Despite the streaming market growing the hits are actually getting smaller due to the huge volume of releases pouring into the ecosystem,...

Emerging Behaviour
Apr 28, 20221 min read
Spotify has a blockbuster first quarter...
Adding over 2 million new subscribers (mainly on the free tier) despite cutting off Russian customers (1.5m), no problems like the...

Emerging Behaviour
Mar 29, 20221 min read
spotify's fake artists
Fascinating story on MBW diving into the murky world of fake artists / streams on Spotify, especially on chill / focus / concentration...
Emerging Behaviour
Feb 8, 20221 min read
11 million creators on spotify
More on Spotify, in last week's earning call Daniel Ek confirmed there was now 11 million creators on Spotify (thats people who upload...

Emerging Behaviour
Feb 1, 20221 min read
Neil young x daniel ek
As we've all probably read this week Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have taken Spotify to task over the Josh Rogan podcast which apparently...


Emerging Behaviour
Oct 17, 20211 min read
adele - the results are in!
Congratulations to Adele who lands the record for one day streams with "Easy on me" wracking up over 20million + sales in a single day....
Emerging Behaviour
Sep 16, 20211 min read
drakes huge first week
Drake nearly beat his one week streaming record for 'Scorpion' clocking in around 497m streams on Spotify and beating Kanye's record set...

Emerging Behaviour
May 1, 20211 min read
spotify pushes their prices up
Spotify has finally raised its prices in what many will see as much needed move to try and raise their ARPU (the amount people spend on a...

Emerging Behaviour
Mar 22, 20211 min read
Spotify seek transparency
As the debate continues about Spotify's fair payment (or not) to artists & writers etc, they're making an effort to come a little clearer...
Emerging Behaviour
Feb 25, 20211 min read
Music glut
Some interesting stats were thrown up at Monday's Spotify 'stream on' event with the platform explaining that 66,000 new tracks are...

Emerging Behaviour
Feb 15, 20211 min read
Spotify adopts a 'work from anywhere' policy
Its going to be interesting to see how the creative industries re-calibrate once things get back to normal, will the worker bees be...


Emerging Behaviour
Jan 5, 20211 min read
streaming just got bigger in the uk
Its been a tough year for many in the music industry this year but if you're one of the lucky ones who make money out of streaming its...
Emerging Behaviour
Nov 23, 20201 min read
70 millions plus tracks on spotify..where to go next
An interesting article on Rolling Stone about the dilemma facing Spotify and other DSPs with unending amount of tracks that are...


Emerging Behaviour
Nov 3, 20201 min read
payola or marketing
Spotify's latest foray into making labels pay for promoting their tracks is by giving them to chance to push tracks to new audiences via...

Emerging Behaviour
Oct 24, 20201 min read
spotify's new podcast format with music
Spotify's continued expansion into the world of podcast continues with the introduction of their new podcast creation tool Anchor that...

Emerging Behaviour
Oct 7, 20201 min read
spotify is watching you
A further addition to the flurry of patents that are being granted in the US to Spotify includes 'personality tracking technology' which...

Emerging Behaviour
Sep 3, 20201 min read
SPOTIFY Short form video patent
Everyone's in on the TikTok action with Spotify filings patent for a TikTok like short form user generated video tool, read it all about...

Emerging Behaviour
Jul 29, 20201 min read
Indie distributor NMF scorecard
Another bit of interesting playlisting info, Hypebot did a quick audit on a recent New Music Friday playlist on which independent...


Emerging Behaviour
Jul 29, 20201 min read
Spotify confirms you can't pay for playlists additions
With a myriad of services offering to get artist's tracks on Spotify playlists (mainly user generated) Spotify firmly shut down the...
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