Strategic shift beyond
music content helps streaming service to grow advertising income by 29% to €281m
Spotify recorded a doubling in podcast listening hours in the fourth quarter of 2020, as locked-down listeners hunting for entertainment tuned in to
Michelle Obama and the Duke and
Duchess of Sussex, driving a Wall Street-beating 24% year-on-year increase in paying subscribers.
The audio streaming company, which now has 155 million paying customers, saw its total monthly user base, including those on its free, advertising-supported tier, grow 27% year-on-year to 345 million.