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Spotify shares jumped more than 12% Wednesday morning on strong quarterly numbers that showed a shift in listening patterns fueled solid subscriber growth last quarter amidst a global pandemic. The Stockholm, Sweden-based music streaming giant said monthly average users jumped 31% to 286 million, including 130 million…

EXCLUSIVE: Did the CIA write Scorpions' hit song Wind of Change? This is the wild story of Spotify's latest original podcast documentary series. The audio platform has teamed up with New Yorker investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, Pod Save America producer Crooked Media and Missing Richard Simmons producer Pi…

Netflix secured 23% of new video on demand subscriptions in the three months up to October, 2019, closely followed by Hulu, with 20%, according to a new study by media research firm Kantar released Wednesday. The firm collected data from 20,000 streamers and non-streamers, including at least 2,500 new subscriber…

EXCLUSIVE: Spotify is in final negotiations with HBO Max to adapt hit family podcast The Two Princes into a 60-minute animated special for the upcoming streamer. This is following a competitive situation, I understand, with multiple parties bidding. The podcast stars Noah Galvin, Samira Wiley, Cynthia Erivo, Christine…

Spotify said it continues to see “exponential growth” in podcast streaming as it reported fourth-quarter results with a jump in monthly active users jumped but lighter-than-expected revenue. Shares in Spotify slumped on the revenue numbers in the early going, trading at about $148 a share, down 4%. Along with the…

Spotify is to acquire Bill Simmons' pop-culture and sports site and podcast company The Ringer. The music streaming service confirmed that it has entered a "definitive agreement" to buy the company, although terms of the transactions were not disclosed. It is the fourth podcast acquisition the company has done in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Spotify has struck a podcast deal with Audity, the audio division of Steve Michaels' Asylum Entertainment Group. This comes as the nascent company hires former Legendary Digital Networks exec Frank Hajdu to oversee its audio slate. The deal will see Audity, which launched last year, produces podcasts across…

Netflix will tell the origin story of Swedish music streaming service Spotify in a yet-to-be-titled series from Young Wallander producer Yellow Bird UK. The scripted series, which has echoes of Aaron Sorkin’s 2010 movie The Social Network, will be based on the book Spotify Untold, which was published this year by…

EXCLUSIVE: Sky has piloted a TV version of Spotify’s feisty, no filter podcast The Receipts as it experiments with bringing diverse new talent to the screen. Deadline has learned that the Comcast-owned British broadcaster worked with The Graham Norton Show producer So Television to record a loosely formatted episode…

The fall slate of new and returning fiction podcasts has been released by Gimlet, led by cyber-thriller Motherhacker, in which a single mother (Carrie Coon) journeys through the dark web. Starting in October, Gimlet will be releasing one fiction series a month through the end of the year, including its first scripted…

It’s a Taylor Swift world this week, as the superstar’s first major label album, Lover, is out. There’s a media blitz afoot for the new recording, but the most intriguing questions of that press tour center on Swift’s first five albums, owned by her arch-nemesis, Scooter Braun, via his Big Machine label purchase. It…

Streaming audio giant Spotify said it added 8 million subscribers in the quarter ending June 30, undershooting its estimate of 8.5 million additions. The company, which has been moving aggressively into podcasting under Chief Content Officer Dawn Ostroff, now has 108 million paying subscribers and 232 monthly active…