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Spotify announces acquisition of audiobook platform Findaway

Spotify Technology S.A., has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Findaway, a digital audiobook distribution platform. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. According to a statement, “Together, Spotify and Findaway will accelerate Spotify’s entry into the rapidly growing audiobooks industry, enabling faster innovation and bringing audiobooks to Spotify’s hundreds […]

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Spotify Accelerates Podcast Discovery With Acquisition of Podz

Spotify, an audio streaming platform, has announced the acquisition of the startup Podz to accelerate podcast discovery. The company said, “We plan to integrate Podz’ technology into the Spotify experience, and listeners should start seeing elements of that work before the end of the year.” “Powered by state-of-the-art machine learning technology, Podz generates high-quality clips […]

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Executive Movements

Taj Alavi joins Spotify as Global Head of Marketing

Spotify has appointed Taj Alavi as the Global Head of Marketing. Earlier, Alavi served Chime as Vice President – Marketing and Communications. According to her LinkedIn profile, Alavi started her career as an account executive with Edelman in 1998. She then went on to work with companies like Revlon and Johnson & Johnson in various other roles. […]

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Spotify to allow employees to work from anywhere

Spotify Technology SA said it will allow its employees to work from anywhere, the Swedish music streaming company said in the blog post. “Today, Spotify is proud to introduce Work From Anywhere (WFA), a new way of collaborating that allows Spotifiers to work from wherever they do their best thinking and creating. Through this distributed-first […]

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Spotify announces acquisition of podcast advertising platform Megaphone

Spotify Technology, the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Megaphone, one of the world’s most innovative podcast advertising and publishing platforms. Together, Spotify and Megaphone will help advertisers and podcast publishers realize the full potential of podcasts.  The two companies will achieve […]