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★In the SPOTlight★
⭐️ ‘Hey Spotify’ is another hands-free way to control your music, rolling out now
Not as convenient as native voice assistants, but Spotify hardware is on the way.
⭐️ Promo Cards Get an Update: Follower and Chart Milestones, New Playlists, and More
We’ve added some new features to our Promo Cards experience, which lets artists create personalized assets for use on social media and other promotional channels.
⭐️ Spotify’s six-point strategy for cracking India
That India is an extremely significant market for Spotify is evident in not only how much it fought to get there but also how often its performance in the country is mentioned during earnings calls.
⭐️ Spotify opens personalized ‘On Repeat’ playlist to brand sponsorship
Having first allowed brands to sponsor the personalised Discover Weekly playlist in January 2019, brands will now be able to serve display, audio, and video ads to Spotify Free users via On Repeat, which features tracks users have streamed most frequently over the past 30 days.
⭐️ Spotify leaks another look at the Car Thing, this time from within in its own app
The new renders match previous photos submitted to the FCC.
⭐️ Gimlet Media and The Ringer Unions Ratify First Labor Contracts With Spotify
The contracts guarantee higher minimum base pay, diversity provisions, more.