Spotify Newsletter #56
Your Weekly Dose of Spotify News
Hello and welcome to issue #56 of the Spotify Newsletter! The news just keeps rolling in from the audio giant. Not sure how that ‘Daniel Ek-wants-to-buy-Arsenal’ plan is going to shake out, but we’ll keep our fingers crossed.
In the meantime, there’s plenty of streaming, podcasting and playlist news to sift through from the week that was in Spotify.
★In the SPOTlight★
⭐️ Locker Room will relaunch as Spotify Greenroom
With seemingly every tech company moving into the live audio space, Ek also spoke to exactly why that's happening. "Just like Stories with video where every major platform has them as one way for its audience to communicate with each other, I see live audio.
⭐️ Would Daniel Ek buying Arsenal be a gamechanger for European tech?
One reason for Ek being taken seriously with such an announcement is the nature of the business he founded — music streaming platform Spotify — which has become a household name in every European country. Most Europeans, even if they haven’t heard of Daniel Ek the person, know about Spotify, and this kind of brand recognition correlates well with wanting to own a European football club as iconic as Arsenal.
⭐️ He's shaping the future of Spotify, one moonshot idea at a time
The company hired Máuhan "M" Zonoozy as its first and only head of innovation earlier this year. "What's happening now is you're collapsing the concept of linear radio into digital," Zonoozy said. "It's becoming multidimensional and becoming more interactive. I'm a believer that technology opens doors to creativity."
⭐️ Musicians ask Spotify to publicly abandon controversial speech recognition patent
At the start of the year, Spotify secured a patent for a voice recognition system that could detect the “emotional state,” age and gender of a person and use that information to make personalized listening recommendations.