Spotify says Apple is “forcing developers to stay with the status quo” and calls on the EU to “reject this blatant disregard” of the EU's established principles
Apple is trying to frame it as dangerous. — Sadly it will only possible to run those browsers in the EU and browser makers need then to provide different browsers in the EU and outside. … Frank Reif...
CEO Daniel Ek: Spotify plans to use the freemium model for audiobooks; the DOJ is reviewing Spotify's yet-to-close acquisition of audiobook distributor Findaway
Ariel Shapiro / The Verge :
CEO Daniel Ek: Spotify plans to use the freemium model for audiobooks; the DOJ is reviewing Spotify's yet-to-close acquisition of audiobook distributor Findaway
This article first ran in Hot Pod Insider, The Verge's audio industry newsletter. — Spotify wants to make audiobooks the next pillar of its business.
Spotify reports Q4 revenue of €2.69B, up 24% YoY, 406M MAUs, up 18% YoY, and ad-supported revenue of €394M, up 40% YoY and a record 15% of total revenue
he's the #1 podcast in more than 90 markets — he also has to abide by those [content] policies.” —Spotify CEO Daniel Ek (@eldsjal). By my count, first time he has used the name Joe Rogan this week. Lu...
Audio: Daniel Ek says Spotify needs exclusives for leverage to land deals with Amazon, Google, and others, and he finds many things Rogan says “very offensive”
He says Spotify is a platform, not a publisher — Spotify CEO Daniel Ek addressed employees about the Joe Rogan controversy …
Joe Rogan posts a video to Instagram defending booking contentious guests, apologizes to Spotify for the backlash, and says he may book more “experts”
Lots of audio platform-related news over the past week. Shruti Shekar / Android Central : Spotify's ‘misinformation honeymoon’ is over, the whip has been cracked Tweets: Joe Rogan / @joerogan : My tho...
Sources: at an all-hands, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek defended keeping Joe Rogan's transphobic podcasts available; Spotify passed on some other old Rogan episodes
Joseph Cox / VICE :
Spotify apologizes for confusion over privacy policy, clarifies that no information will be collected without explicit permission
Daniel Ek / Spotify Blog :