Spotify, the popular music streaming platform with over 500 million monthly active users, has rolled out the Daylist feature globally, and it’s now available in all markets worldwide. According to reports, Daylist is a personalized playlist that adapts to your listening habits throughout the day, updating multiple times with new tracks and titles that reflect…
Taylor Swift: 300 Million Spotify Streams
Taylor Swift, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, recently released Tortured Poets Department, her 11th studio album. According to Spotify, the audio streaming giant, Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets album has become the first in Spotify’s history to have more than 300 million streams in a single day. Also, “Fortnight” (feat. Post Malone), a song from the album,…
Spotify to Layoff 1,500
Spotify has announced a 17% workforce reduction to focus the company’s resources on delivering real impact to its customers. CEO Daniel, mentioned that impacted employees will be contacted by Human Resources (HR) for a one on one conversation. Daniel urged the rest of the team to embrace this leaner structure as it enables the company…
Spotify: New Podcast Translation Feature
In a pilot experiment, Spotify has announced a voice translation feature for podcasts hosted on the proprietary audio streaming platform. This new feature will translate podcasts into various languages using the publishers voice, leveraging OpenAI’s voice generation artificial intelligence (AI) technology. According to the initial report, podcast episodes recorded in English can now be available…
Spotify Price Hike
Spotify is one of the largest audio streaming service providers, with over 500 million monthly active users, including 210 million paying subscribers, as of March 2023. The popular streaming service has announced that it will be hiking prices which will take effect on Monday July 24 for new subscribers, and current customers would have 1…
Spotify: 200 Job Cuts Across Podcast Vertical
Spotify revealed plans for a strategic realignment within its podcasting division. This move comes as part of the company’s efforts to grow its partnership initiatives with leading podcasters worldwide and provide personalized support throughout the division. To implement this shift, Spotify is reducing the global podcast department and others, resulting in approximately 200 employees being…
Spotify Hits 515 Million Monthly Active Users
Spotify is a Swedish-based provider of proprietary audio streaming and media services. Spotify offers a vast digital library of copyright-restricted audio content, comprising more than 100 million songs and five million podcasts sourced from record labels and media companies. While basic features are free and come with advertisements and limited control, additional features such as…