Developers have made $550 billion on Apple’s App Store since 2008

Apple says its services had a “record-breaking year,” as Apple TV, Apple Music, and Apple Pay also soared.

Spotify wants your friends to know exactly what you’re listening to

Spotify’s latest update adds real-time Listening Activity and new social tools that let you see what friends are playing, and jump in instantly.
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Spotify now lets you share what you’re streaming in real time with friends

You can tap a friend’s listening activity to play the track, save it, open the menu, or react with an emoji.

Spotify is finally bringing your friends’ Listening Activity to mobile
Spotify is finally bringing your friends’ Listening Activity to mobile

Since almost day one, Spotify has offered the ability to creep on your friends’ listening habits – but you could mostly only uncover those guilty pleasures on the desktop app. The company experimented with a community feature on the mobile app back in 2022, but it never officially launched. Now the company is finally bringing […]

Spotify lowers monetization threshold for video podcasts

Spotify is dropping the minimum episode requirement to three, minimum consumption hours to 2,000, and engaged audience member threshold to 1,000 over the last 30 days.

Don’t like Spotify Messages? These two big upgrades could soon change your mind

You can now see your friends’ listening activity in real time, and send Jam requests with Spotify Messages.

Pirate group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify

Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.

Pirate library rips 86 million of the most popular songs on Spotify
Pirate library rips 86 million of the most popular songs on Spotify

Spotify says it has launched new protections against “anti-copyright attacks” after the open-source library / pirate activist group Anna’s Archive announced it’s ripped 86 million songs from the platform that it plans to make available in torrents, as reported earlier by Billboard. According to the group, “We have archived around 86 million songs from Spotify, […]