★ SPOTlight

⭐️ How Digital Platforms Like Spotify Turn Rivals into Allies

New research from Wharton assistant management professor Manav Raj suggests that on digital platforms like Spotify, positioning yourself near a competitor can often be more beneficial than harmful. And this doesn’t just apply to pop stars; Raj’s research suggests that businesses may benefit by positioning themselves alongside competitors who are already attracting high levels of demand on platforms like Amazon or GrubHub as well.

⭐️ Why Spotify is still all-in on remote work

Spotify HR chief Katarina Berg explained the company’s stance, saying that the company had no plans to move away from its “work from anywhere” policy, which was formalized in 2021. “You can’t spend a lot of time hiring grown-ups and then treat them like children,” she said. Companies that were requiring employees to return to the office were simply “going back to what they know,” she added.

⭐️ What will Spotify Wrapped 2024 look like? Here are my 3 predictions for this year's music roundup

Everyone's favorite yearly music roundup is on the way, and we're expecting Spotify Wrapped 2024 to drop some time between the end of November and beginning of December. Because Spotify continues to be vague about exactly when this year's roundup will drop, we're left guessing about what features it will include – but that doesn't mean we don't have some big ideas.

⭐️ Spotify hails 600% rise in streams for women artists in Poland

Barely a week goes by now without Spotify publishing some stats from a different part of its global business. Today it’s Poland’s turn, with an emphasis on women artists.

🗣 Podcasts

• Podcasts Are Booming in Spain—Here Are 5 Shows Driving the Surge

▶️ Playlists

• I Tried Spotify’s Cover Art Tool and My Playlists Have Never Looked So...Interesting

🎧 Streams

• Does Spotify still count for Wrapped in November?

• 3 Doors Down’s 'Kryptonite' Reaches One Billion Spotify Streams

🖌 Design

• Bridging Search and Recommendation with Generative Retrieval

🧐 Research

• Amplified Intelligence & Spotify Collaborate to Measure Consumer Attention Across Advertising

• Spotify research shows how advertisers can reach Gen Z through music

🎼 Spotify 4 Artists

• How to Stand Out on Spotify Wrapped 2024: A Musicians Guide

• Research shows that 8 in 10 tracks from DIY musicians exceed Spotify’s recommended loudness levels - and clipping was found in more than half

💡 Tips & Tricks

• Genius Saves Spotify Car Thing From Bricked Death and You Can Too

• Get the most out of Spotify with DistroKid

• Spotify Needs to Fix Its Confusing "Like" System

🔥 News

• After selling Anchor to Spotify, co-founders reunite to build AI educational startup Oboe

• Celebrating 10 Years of Spotify in the Philippines

• Spotify's Price Hike: A Double-Edged Sword for the Music Industry

• Music Videos in Beta Brings an Improved Viewing Experience to New Markets

🎵 New Adventures

I Feel It in My Heart - 2005 Remaster Talking Heads

Sad Day - Mono The Rolling Stones

Aftermath R.E.M.

Tiffany Queen The Byrds

Night in My Veins Pretenders

Tables Turned The Motels

RIP to Quincy Jones — an absolute legend.

Is It Love That We're Missin' Quincy Jones, The Brothers Johnson

One Hundred Ways Quincy Jones, James Ingram

Midnight Soul Patrol Quincy Jones

Soul Bossa Nova Quincy Jones

Air Mail Special - Live At Newport Jazz Festival / 1961 Quincy Jones

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⭐️ If you have a Spotify playlist you’d like spotlighted (Platform & Stream as well), let’s talk. Email: jeff.spotifynewsletter@gmail.com

📧 Get in touch

If you have a question, idea, request for sponsorship info, or simply a desire to chat about Spotify, please email me at jeff.spotifynewsletter@gmail.com.