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a) North America
b) Brazil
c) Sweden
d) Italy
e) France
THE COMPANY
• Provides unlimited acess to
25m songs
• Streaming service
c) Daniel Ek’s favourite color is green and this is the reason why Spotify’s logo is also
green
AFTER:
”A Goldman Sachs research note, Music in the Air, projects that streaming will help revenues
double to $104bn by 2030.”
PROFIT ?
REFLECTION AND OPINIONS
FACTS:
OPINION:
3) To acquire promising
companies
REFLECTION AND OPINIONS
The struggle goes beyond direct rivals:
REFLECTION AND OPINIONS
• Awareness
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QUESTIONS
1. Considering the challenges, what could you recommend as the Spotify’s next
step?
2. What do you expect for the next 10 years in the music industry? Growth?
Innovations? New plataforms? Describe a short scenario
Helmore, E. (2017) ’Spotify hopes going public will cement streaming as music’s future’, The Guardian,
May. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/27/spotify-ipo-stock-market-
daniel-ek (Accessed: 1 October 2017)
Nielsen (2014) ’Nielsen Entertainment & Billboard’s 2014 mid-year Music Industry Report’. Available at:
http://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en/public%20factsheets/Soundscan/nielsen-music-
2014-mid-year-us-release.pdf (Accessed: 2 October 2017)
Dredge, S. (2014) ’Spotify: five big challenges looming for the streaming music service’, The Guardian,
May. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/21/spotify-five-big-challenges-
streaming-music (Accessed: 3 October 2017)
Dean, J. (2013) ’Let a Billion Streams Bloom’, Fast Company, (November), pp. 104-127. Available at:
http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=3&sid=e561dceb-08b9-44dd-b70e-
9fe96d1411cd%40sessionmgr120 (Accessed: 4 October 2017)
Nicolaou, A. (2017) ’Spotify closer to IPO after Warner Music deal’, Financial Times, August. Available
at: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/24cc28ac-8913-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45787.html (Accessed: 4 October 2017)
REFERENCE LIST
Crunchbase (2017) Investors. Available at: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/daniel-ek (Accessed: 5
October 2017)