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Roku Makes First Major Hires Under New Ad Chief Jay Askinasi

Former Microsoft and Xandr exec Sarah Harms, and Sal Candela, formerly with Spotify, will assume VP-level roles at Roku

Broadcasting & Cable

Nigel Farage returns: how worried are the Tories? - The Standard podcast

Plus, the full automated transcript of today’s episode

Evening Standard

Spotify’s price hikes and lack of HiFi make me want to own music again

Spotify Premium now costs $11.99 per month, making it more expensive than Apple Music and Tidal, despite having less features.

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Spotify is raising prices for the second year running

Spotify is getting more expensive for the second year running, with monthly costs increasing by between $1 – $3.

What Hi-Fi?

"My original point was not to devalue the time, effort, or resources involved in creating meaningful works": Spotify CEO responds to backlash over comments on cost of making music

"It’s clear I was far too vague in the post, including with my clumsy definition of content. I understand how it came across as very reductive and that wasn’t my intent"

MusicRadar

Spotify Premium is now more expensive than Apple Music — But is it worth the extra?

Spotify raises its price again, making for the third price rise world wide for a 20% increase overall.

iMore

Spotify’s CEO got roasted by artists after he said the cost of creating content is ‘close to zero.’ Now he’s trying to walk back his ‘clumsy’ remark

In a clarifying post, Daniel Ek said his earlier definition of content was “very reductive.”

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Monica McNutt Leaves Stephen A. Smith Stunned With ‘First Take’ Criticism

Stephen A. Smith tried to take credit for First Take’s WNBA coverage, but Monica McNutt pushed back hard.

Sports Illustrated

Spotify announces price hike, right after CEO enrages music fans by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'

Just a day after Spotify's CEO claimed that the cost of creating "content" is "close to zero," the music streaming service is engaging US subscribers further with a price hike.

TechRadar

Spotify increases subscriber prices for the second time in a year—the latest service to jump on the price-hike bandwagon

The music streaming service sees costs increase.

Fortune

Spotify is increasing prices again — here's how much more you need to pay

Spotify is bumping up the price of its music streaming service again, and all plans are impacted.

Tom’s Guide

Nigel Farage shares his 'Brexit club classics' Spotify playlist

The playlist includes hits like ‘Out of touch’

Evening Standard

Musicians outraged as Spotify CEO claims the "cost of creating content" is "close to zero": "Our albums took hundreds of hours of human effort, hard work and creativity"

Daniel Ek's comments arrive as Spotify reports record profits of over €1bn in Q1 2024

MusicRadar

"Classic double cheeseburger rock'n'roll, its mission is to bring the party and it succeeds": Y&T sum up the early 80s rock sound on Black Tiger

After the all-important breakthrough with Earthshaker, Y&T's follow-up Black Tiger was a defining statement

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Metal Hammer

Spotify CEO sparks backlash after social media post that claimed the cost of making "content" is "close to zero"

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek touched the collective nerve of the music world by saying it costs almost nothing to make "content"

Salon

Idea of You's needle drops & St. Vincent

Frankie Pine, who also worked on "Daisy Jones & the Six," discusses crafting intergenerational character playlists

Android Central

Spotify is offering refunds for Car Thing before it stops working

Customers who bought Spotify's Car Thing device can get a refund before it stops working later this year.

The Guardian - UK

It’s the age of Swiftonomics – but will Taylor Swift’s phenomenal success trickle down?

Can one record-breaking megastar make a difference for struggling musicians and new artists?

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Tom’s Guide

Bose SoundLink Max review: A sleek Bluetooth speaker with plenty of boom and 20-hour playback

The new SoundLink Max offers expansive stereo sound and 20-hour playback in Bose's largest portable Bluetooth speaker so far, and it's shaking up the portable speaker category.

The Independent UK

J Balvin, Latin America’s biggest star: ‘In the super-macho-man reggaeton world, I looked weak’

He is one of the biggest artists on Spotify, with 57 million monthly listeners. Yet his career hasn’t been straightforward. As the Colombian star prepares to play the O2, he tells Annabel Nugent about learning from his mistakes and why his young son is the reason he keeps going

Tom’s Guide

Spotify is refunding Car Thing owners — how to get your money back before Spotify bricks it

Spotify is offering Car Thing owners refunds after abruptly announcing plans to discontinue support for the in-vehicle streaming device in December.

Salon

Darius Rucker: The Beatles for me are it

On "Everything Fab Four," the Grammy winner discusses Hootie & the Blowfish and his memoir "Life's Too Short"

Android Central

Spotify updated its app icon on Android after five years, but it’s not all roses

Spotify gave its Android icon a subtle facelift.

Latin Times

Judge ruling on reggaetón's iconic beat could put the Latin music industry at risk

In a landmark decision, a U.S. District Judge ruled that a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against numerous reggaetón artists and record labels can proceed

The Conversation

Drake’s beef with Kendrick Lamar isn’t nearly as important as his tiff with Tupac Shakur’s estate over using the dead rapper’s voice

In April 2023, a song titled “Heart on My Sleeve,” written and produced by a mysterious producer named Ghostwriter, went viral on TikTok and briefly became the most popular song on both YouTube and Spotify.

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