Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Indie sales snafu • Who owns a voice? • FANS FIRST• Fair Use • FAVE’s Fan Finder & More
Episode 174 of the Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. Episode 174 Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart. Continue reading
Spotify CEO blames layoffs on fake work, pushes out CFO who just cashed in $9.4M in stock
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek seemed to blame workers and another executive for this week’s layoffs that saw 1500 or 17% of the streamer’s global workforce shown the door. In a. Continue reading
Sona adds musician-friendly streaming, marketplace with $6.8M funding
Sona has launched a new web3-based, no-subscription, ad-free streaming music platform and a marketplace where artists can auction off SONA, the “digital twins” of songs. The startup was co-founded by. Continue reading
Layoffs to cost Spotify $140M – $155M as stock rise tops 10% [NYSE: SPOT]
Spotify stock opened up again on Wednesday, trading at $200.39 after the stock bucked two down days on Wall Street to rise 2.65% on Tuesday and 7.46% on Monday. The. Continue reading
Read Spotify CEO Daniel Ek’s Layoff Letter To Staff [Full Text]
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek sent a letter to staff Monday announcing layoffs of 17% or about 17% of global staff. Over the day, Wall Street sent Spotify stock higher as. Continue reading
Spotify layoff details emerge as stock finished up sharply Monday [NYSE: SPOT]
UPDATED: Even while the overall stock markets declined on Monday, Spotify finished sharply up after news emerged that the streaming company was cutting almost 1,600 jobs or roughly 17% of. Continue reading
Spotify cuts 1500 jobs in third round of layoffs this year
UPDATE: Spotify has laid off 17% of its global workforce, or 1500 of its estimated 9000 employees, the streamer said in a memo to staff Monday. This round of layoffs. Continue reading
Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Wrapped arrives • AI raises the dead • Mechanical royalty increases • More
Episode 173 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. Episode 173 On this week’s YMC podcast, hosts. Continue reading
WEEKEND MUST READ: Ex-Spotify Economist Will Page pulls no punches
This Weekend’s Must Read is the transcript of an interview with music industry economist and truth-teller Will Page, who sat down for a bonus episode of the Your Morning Coffee. Continue reading
Weird Al’s Spotify Wrapped mocks payouts: ‘Thanks for the sandwich!’
Weird Al Yankovic has used his personalized Spotify Wrapped 2023 video to fans to take a swipe at the size of the checks he receives from Spotify. After thanking his. Continue reading
