Spotify Now Has Half a Billion Monthly Active Listeners

Spotify mentioned on Wednesday it will roll out new options like sensible shuffle and previews of podcasts and music playlists on its audio streaming platform, because it crossed 500 million in month-to-month energetic listeners.

The Swedish firm, which has invested closely in build up its podcast and audiobooks enterprise lately in a bid to draw customers and advertisers, introduced the “new re-imagined person interface” at its Stream On occasion.

Spotify additionally shared an replace to its annual music royalties report, noting that the variety of artists making over $1 million (roughly Rs. 8 crore) in addition to these producing over $10,000 (roughly Rs. 818,500) had greater than doubled up to now 5 years.

Earlier this yr, Spotify mentioned it will tighten spending and work to change into environment friendly given the robust macroeconomic backdrop and projected the variety of listeners would attain 500 million within the present quarter.

Options like autoplay for podcasts, personalised visible and audio previews of podcast episodes and audiobooks or music playlists, and new feeds for discovery shall be rolled out in waves beginning Wednesday, Spotify mentioned.

Again in January, Spotify said it will minimize 6 % of its workforce and would take a associated cost of as much as almost $50 million (roughly Rs. 408 crore), including to the huge layoffs within the know-how sector in preparation for a doable recession.

The tech business is dealing with a requirement downturn after two years of pandemic-powered development throughout which it had employed aggressively. That has led corporations from Meta to Microsoft to shed hundreds of jobs.

“Over the previous few months we have made a substantial effort to rein in prices, however it merely hasn’t been sufficient,” Chief Govt Daniel Elk mentioned in a weblog publish asserting the roughly 600 job cuts.

© Thomson Reuters 2023