As businesses compete for subscribers’ long-term loyalty, key players are increasingly leveraging audiobooks to keep customers coming back. Take, for instance, Spotify, which announced last month the addition of more than 200,000 audiobooks for its Premium subscribers, with 15 hours of listening included in the...
Universal Music and streaming service Deezer have reportedly agreed to raise payouts to artists by 10%. The arrangement is the first major shift in the streaming music business model since Spotify came on the scene 15 years ago, the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (Sept. 6). “This is a massive change in...
The masters of entertainment are out in force and making moves. One look at the PYMNTS Provide Ranking of Streaming Apps reveals all one needs to know about the gyrations of the music and video apps we can’t get enough of. This latest monthly update shows a...
Another month has passed, so the streaming apps are ready for their close-up. As happens every 30 days or so, PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Streaming Apps puts the spotlight on these famous apps and gauges their star power based on such factors as channel coverage,...
December 22, 2023
Spotify has withdrawn its support from two music festivals in France in response to the country’s introduction of a new tax that is opposed by music-streaming platforms. The company’s managing director for the France and Benelux regions, Antoine Monin, expressed his dissatisfaction with the tax in a post on X, and the company called the […]
September 06, 2023
Universal Music and streaming service Deezer have reportedly agreed to raise payouts to artists by 10%. The arrangement is the first major shift in the streaming music business model since Spotify came on the scene 15 years...
April 18, 2022
Billionaire Francois Pinault and the other founders of Paris-based blank-check firm I2PO are buying music-streaming platform Deezer for €1.075 billion ($1.16 billion) and plan to take it public, according to...
