Spotify

Spotify

https://www.spotify.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/spotify/

Spotify, Publicly Owned, is headquartered in Sweden and the US. Founded in 2006, the company employs approximately 16,200 people and reported $18.7B in revenue as of 2025. The company specializes in media and TV services, providing audio streaming and media services that offer digital copyright restricted recorded music and podcasts, including content from record labels and media companies.

2025 Revenue

Founded

2006

Headcount

16,199

Headquarters

Sweden

Primary Segment

Media and TV services

Ownership

Publicly Owned

News Summary:

Spotify received a "buy" rating on March 13, despite facing significant competition in the music streaming space from services such as Apple Music and YouTube Music. On the same day, Justin Bieber continued his dominance on the platform in 2026, with his collection ‘The Best’ surpassing 19 billion streams as of March 13 and including a Post Malone collaboration. Earlier on March 13, Spotify began testing a new personalization feature for Premium users in New Zealand, allowing them to directly customize their Taste Profile. This followed insights shared by Morgan Stanley analysts, also on March 13, who highlighted Spotify Technology S.A. as a significant player in the subscription streaming market due to its strategic innovations in streaming and podcasting, following their recent Technology Media & Telecom conference in San Francisco.

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Spotify offers 2 products in the ad tech and services and media and telecoms services industries. Spotify's product portfolio comprises of ad measurement and verification and media and TV services.

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Spotify's revenues were $18.7B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Spotify's revenue into 2 different product categories, the largest of which is music streaming, which represents 100% of Spotify's revenue.

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Mar

19th

2026

18:08

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Sony Says It Has Removed 135,000+ Deepfakes

22 The Deepfake Music Flood: How AI Imitation is Reshaping the Industry Sony Music has recently removed over 135,000 AI-generated songs impersonating its artists from streaming platforms. This move highlights a rapidly escalating problem: the proliferation of “deepfake” music, and the challenges it poses to artists, labels, and the streaming ecosystem.

Mar

19th

2026

14:39

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Spotify Quietly Gets Serious About Desktop Hi-Fi with This Audiophile Feature

Spotify is the world’s largest music streaming service, yet it has infamously lagged behind the competition in audio quality. It only rolled out lossless audio tracks to subscribers this past September, years after its rivals such as Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon Music, Qobuz and Deezer.

Mar

19th

2026

14:30

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Spotify: New Feature Reveals if Friends Listened to Your Songs

8 Spotify’s New Social Layer: Is It the Future of Music Sharing? Spotify is edging closer to becoming a fully-fledged social network, and recent discoveries within its code hint at a significant shift in how we share and experience music.

Mar

19th

2026

13:55

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Spotify's new 'Exclusive Mode' delivers bit-perfect music on PCs, if you can lose a few features

Spotify has rolled out a new feature called Exclusive Mode for its Windows desktop app, giving Premium subscribers access to bit-perfect audio playback for the first time. The update, which went live on Tuesday, hands Spotify complete control over your PC's audio hardware—cutting out the Windows system mixer entirely so your music arrives exactly as it was mastered at 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC.

The Times of India

Mar

19th

2026

12:30

Spotify Fixes Premium Glitch That Played Ads for Paid Users

Music streaming giant Spotify has resolved a technical issue that disrupted the experience for several Premium subscribers, who unexpectedly encountered advertisements despite paying for an ad-free service. The glitch also caused some accounts to be incorrectly labelled as “Free,” leading to confusion among users.

Mar

19th

2026

09:14

Spotify Glitch Turns Paid Accounts Into Free Tier

Spotify users faced a frustrating outage on March 18, as many reported being suddenly kicked off their paid subscriptions. The issue left Premium and Family plan users unable to access features they were paying for. Reports started coming in just before noon PT, with users saying their accounts were unexpectedly downgraded.

Mar

19th

2026

09:04

Spotify Glitch: Premium Users Hit With Ads, Company Says Issue Resolved

Updated 19 March 2026 at 14:34 IST Spotify confirmed the bug was being addressed, and later announced the fix was complete. “We’re happy to say that this should now be fixed for everyone! If this continues to happen on your end, please make sure to log out and log in again, that should do the trick,” the company said in an update.

Mar

19th

2026

08:34

Spotify Preps Played Receipts For Shared Songs

Spotify is developing a new social cue for its in-app Messages feature that shows when a friend actually listened to what you sent. Code references in the latest Android build point to “Played Receipts” and “Saved Receipts,” signaling that the platform is preparing a music-centric twist on read receipts that could make sharing songs and podcasts feel more immediate—and more accountable.

Mar

19th

2026

05:35

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Spotify Power User Shares 8 Tricks To Avoid Bad Music

If you spend hours a day on Spotify, you already know the algorithm can be a blessing or a buzzkill. With more than 100 million tracks on tap, the difference between a perfect session and a playlist full of skips often comes down to how you steer the system.

Mar

18th

2026

19:12

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

What does Spotify exclusive mode do? New mode hits Windows PCs

Spotify has introduced a new feature titled “Exclusive Mode for Windows PCs.” The feature gives audiophiles the ability to achieve a bit-perfect playback by taking sole control of their computer’s audio device. Rolled out on March 18, the feature bypasses Windows’ system mixer, which typically resamples audio and mixes system sounds, to deliver music exactly as it was mastered.

Mar

18th

2026

18:30

Is the Music Industry's Growth Sustainable, or Just a Flash in the Pan

Key Takeaways Global recorded music revenues hit a record $31.7 billion in 2025, marking 11 consecutive years of growth, primarily fueled by paid streaming. Paid subscription streaming now accounts for 52.4% of global revenues, with 837 million users worldwide, indicating strong monetization potential.

Mar

18th

2026

14:49

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Spotify's New Exclusive Mode Lets PC Users Bypass System Audio Processing

Spotify has officially rolled out its Exclusive mode, which bypasses system audio processing to deliver original sound to Windows PCs. It is designed primarily for Premium subscribers and allows users to experience music in its purest form.

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