Spotify Newsletter #223
Your Weekly Dose of Spotify News
Hello and happy Friday! As much as I love love love curating my New Adventures playlist (that’s all the way down at the bottom, in case you never make it that far!), I would equally love to spotlight other playlists out there in the universe. And… you’d be helping to support my newsletter publishing endeavors.
Besides my ‘All Things Spotify’ weekly digest, there’s also AI Music Newsletter and Platform & Stream. Ok, there’s also the Steely Dan Newsletter as well. It’s a network, Jerry, a network of music-related newsletters.
If you have a Spotify playlist you’d like spotlighted (here, and Platform as well), let’s talk. Email: jeff.spotifynewsletter@gmail.com
Thanks for reading today! Have a nice weekend!!
★ SPOTlight
⭐️ Spotify will start listing pricing and promo details in iOS app in Europe
The company says, “we will finally be able to offer something as obvious as it is overdue: iPhone consumers in the EU will now see pricing information for Spotify in the app and the fact that they can go to our website to purchase items directly.”
⭐️ Spotify Knows You So Well (And You, and You ... and You, Too!)
It’s official: Spotify knows you’re emo. The platform spotlights some of its 615 million monthly users in a big push that breaks today across OOH and digital in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other key markets.
⭐️ New Spotify Portal for Backstage Eases Platform Engineering
The path to creating Backstage involved respecting Spotify's culture of collaboration and developer autonomy. Its new portal aims to bring that ethos to all Backstage users.
⭐️ How a Spotify TV ad dominated Summer and showed Radio's weakness
Spotify is hoping to accelerate its in-car progress, not only pitching their product, but as importantly, the emotional, relatable way in which it’s used while people are behind the wheel.
🗣 Podcasts
Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Can't Get Over 'F------ Grifters' Label
Why comments on Spotify podcasts are more about YouTube than community
▶️ Playlists
My Spotify Daylist and Blend mixes are way better since I started using this little-known feature
Arijit Singh tied with Taylor Swift as Spotify’s most-followed artist
🎧 Streams
Chris Stapleton’s 'Tennessee Whiskey' Reaches One Billion Streams On Spotify
Lorde and Kimbra top Spotify’s first ever New Zealand Global Impact list
🖌 Design
🧐 Research
🎼 Spotify 4 Artists
💡 Tips & Tricks
🔥 News
Spotify Celebrates Cowgirls With Carly Pearce, Carter Faith & Brandi Cyrus
Mondelēz and Coca-Cola Collaboration Taps QR Codes and Spotify Personalization
Spotify Promotes Dinesh Kumar S To Marketing Regionalisation Lead Of SAMEA
🎵 New Adventures
Thinking of both Greg Kihn and Jack Russell today. Rest in peace to great artists - both a big part of my musical youth, helping craft my love of power pop and good time rock n’ roll.
📧 Get in touch
If you have a question, idea, request for sponsorship info, or simply a desire to chat about Spotify, please email me at jeff.spotifynewsletter@gmail.com.