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Small apps unite to take on Apple, Google over unfair trade practices

On Thursday, the smaller companies said they had formed the Coalition for App Fairness, a nonprofit group that plans to push for changes in the app stores and "protect the app economy"

Spotify's paid subscribers hit 138 mn as music streaming demand rebounds

Analysts on average were expecting the company to have 136.4 million paid subscribers

Spotify brings real-time lyrics support to 26 countries, including India

With this new feature, Spotify will become similar to Prime Music and Apple Music which already offered real-time lyrics in India

Now Indian users can enjoy Spotify with Amazon Alexa on Echo devices

Spotify free is an ad-supported service in India and gives users access to over 50 million songs

Spotify now lets you save unlimited songs, albums, podcasts in user library

The Swedish music streaming service has removed the 10000 songs limit on the user library

The show must go on: Performance artists struggle as gigs go online

Due to the lockdown, artists are turning to online shows but the concept of online concerts are still at a nascent stage making survival difficult for many

Statutory licensing for online streaming: A case of legislative inaction

India possesses no guidelines to regulate the manner in which licences are to be obtained by online streaming services

Spotify's 'year in review': Check your song history for the year and decade

Users can also see their own summary of 2019 and the last decade by heading to the Spotify Wrapped website or through the main app

Singer Arijit Singh most-streamed Indian artist in 2019, says Spotify

Tanishk Bagchi, Dhvani Bhanushali and Asees Kaur occupied the top three positions for India's top breakout artists

Spotify turns the spotlight on storytellers with 3 original podcast series

The platform looks to break away from the popular song-and-dance routine, with original podcasts made for an Indian audience

Apple Music takes on Spotify with 'Replay' feature to revisit old songs

The feature is available from the official app across platforms.

Spotify announces Premium Family plan in India at Rs 179 per month

The plan gives family members living under one roof more choices to customise music streaming and podcasts, with ad-free, on-demand music listening experience

Spotify buys SoundBetter, will make it part of its Artists feature

SoundBetter's platform allows hiring of musicians, audio engineers, producers and songwriters

From Spotify to YouTube Music, audio OTT brands look to perfect the pitch

Small sachets, daily subscriptions and bundled offers, Spotify, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Gaana are going all out to woo mass audiences

Spotify extends Premium free trial to three months worldwide

Earlier this month, the company announced it has hit 232 million monthly active users globally, which is a 29 per cent increase year-on-year

Spotify, Apple may join hands to let iPhone users to play songs using Siri

According to a report in The Information on Wednesday, the talks come amid a growing anti-trust battle between the two companies

Spotify launches lighter Android app for those with limited data, storage

Spotify Lite app takes 10 MB of space, allows users to set a data limit, and notifies them when the limit is reached; users can also control their song cache to free up storage

Digital entertainers battle experience challenge as viewership figures rise

As data costs reduce, and content availability increases, the report expects the Indian consumer to spend up to 3.5 times more time watching content on digital platforms

Spotify tunes into Bollywood pitch, ropes in Anil Kapoor for TV campaign

The global music streaming app is doing what a number of global brands navigating their way through the country's complex consumer landscape have done but at the risk of losing its unique identity

Apple says Spotify wants all the benefits of a free app without being free

Spotify, which launched a year after the 2007 launch of the iPhone, said on Wednesday Apple unfairly limits rivals to its own Apple Music streaming service