Paul Vogel

Spotify scales back ticketing ambitions after job cuts (Report)

The music streaming giant may turn to M&A to achieve its goal of owning a ticketing business, a news report says.

From Spotify’s 1,500+ layoffs and CFO exit to Enrique Iglesias’ nine-figure deal… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place

After calling Universal ‘music’s most innovative company’, now Spotify says UMG is ‘willing to lean in more aggressively’ than its rivals to SPOT’s marketing tools

"Our hope and expectation will be that other labels, both the big ones [and] small ones will lean in more aggressively over time."

Spotify execs praise TikTok owner’s new Spotify rival… while trashing Apple and Amazon Music’s reach

Does Spotify really have three times the amount of listening of Amazon Music?

Apple wanted to improve songwriter pay to $0.00091 per stream. Spotify and Google weren’t keen.

Historical filings show why Spotify believes "lower royalty rates are critical" to the service's future