Spotify

  • SPOT have reported Q3 and there are lots of interesting points.
  • The latest initiative, Podcasts, is seeing exponential growth (+39% Q/Q)
  • They are also launching paid recommendations.
  • On competition – “We continue to feel very good about our competitive position in the market. Relative to Apple, the publicly available data shows that we are adding roughly twice as many subscribers per month as they are. Additionally, we believe that our monthly engagement is roughly 2x as high and our churn is at half the rate. Elsewhere, our estimates imply that we continue to add more users on an absolute basis than Amazon. Our data also suggests that Amazon’s user base skews significantly more to ‘Ad-Supported’ than ‘Premium’, and that average engagement on our platform is approximately 3x.
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