Spotify debuts granular charts
Spotify is providing a lot of detailed charts on how music on the platform is performing all around the world.
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Spotify’s next frontier: video… and more advertising
Spotify is transitioning its business from a music streamer to a creator-focused platform that provides support for any audio and video content.
Power of Music tunes up a meet cute
A new dating app called Power of Music matches people based on their tastes in music, leveraging either a user’s Spotify or Apple Music accounts to find compatible partners.
Spotify advertises itself
Spotify is rolling out a new ad campaign, “All Ears on You,” in order to woo more advertisers to its platform.
Joe Rogan gets locked in Spotify’s walled garden
Joe Rogan seems to be slipping from the zeitgeist.
Spotify programs the new radio
Spotify’s radio-like “Music + Talk” format is expanding globally.
In the era of streaming and short attention spans, albums better start with the hits
As streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music unwittingly normalize a culture of just listening to singles or the first few songs on albums, artists are trying to find a way to avoid the dreaded “skip rate.”
When it comes to podcasts, are all subscription tools created equal?
Spotify and Apple are locked in a heated battle for the podcast-subscription throne.
Spotify’s Mixed Bag of Censorship
Last year the #metoo campaign swept the film industry. Finally, after decades of terror, predator after predator was held accountable. Last week Spotify brought the fight to the music industry with its new “Hate Content and Hateful Conduct Policy.” Banning hateful content is nothing new, but what’s new is punishing creators for ‘Hateful Conduct.’ To christen this precarious decision, Spotify removed R Kelly and XXXTentacion from it’s playlists with a few strokes of their corporate keys.
Fashion Chooses Diversity To Influence Pop Culture (And Profits)
In the 1990s and 2000s luxury brands like Louis Vuitton and Gucci enjoyed their presence on the public pedestal as the status symbols of fashion couture. Yet the luxury brands of years past were unable to connect with the rebellious millennial spirit influenced heavily by hip hop culture. Recently Louis Vuitton hired Ghanaian-American fashion designer and Kanye west muse, Virgil Abloh to be the Director of Men’s Wear and their cultural savant. This is Louis Vuitton’s first African American artistic director, but not a shocking move when looking at the industry at large. The trend began its upswing when classic French fashion house Balmain had a bright idea: hire a brilliant young black man to guide them into the future.