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Spotify sees spike in traffic to cancellation page: 196% week-on-week

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Post by odshoifsdhfs »

barbazoo wrote: post #16

Unrelated to this (bad) story, I wish there was more competition in that field. AFAIK it's either Spotify, Google, Amazon or Apple. Am I missing any others?

Tidal at least (not supporting them and read they also have some 'shady' stuff going on, just adding another possibility, personally I stick with Apple)

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Post by [deleted] »

altdataseller wrote: post #11
jdkjs wrote: post #2

What is SimilarWeb and how do they know that? Because I have a hunch that they are pulling the numbers out of their asses just so they are mentioned in articles from shitty blogs like this one.

They have a bunch of Chrome extensions that spy on what users are visiting online, and use that data to sell their product to marketers. Personally think Google should get rid of them as they are a travesty to online privacy.

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Post by t-writescode »

barbazoo wrote: post #16

Unrelated to this (bad) story, I wish there was more competition in that field. AFAIK it's either Spotify, Google, Amazon or Apple. Am I missing any others?

Pandora, Tidal, Plex if you want to host your own? There's probably more still.

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Post by knute »

coolso wrote: post #14
Apocryphon wrote: post #8

Did not know there were that many Neil Young and Joni Mitchell fans. I wonder if there's any studies on the stickiness of cancellations. There were reoccurring pushes to delete Uber since 2017, but not sure how often people went back anyway.

I canceled my premium subscription because of all of the Joe Rogan episodes they deleted.

I cancelled mine in part because of the Joe Rogan kerfuffle but mostly because I made the realization that Spotify is investing more heavily in podcasts than music, but I already have a podcast player that I like and I should subscribe to a music service that cares about the music.

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Post by [deleted] »

coolso wrote: post #14
Apocryphon wrote: post #8

Did not know there were that many Neil Young and Joni Mitchell fans. I wonder if there's any studies on the stickiness of cancellations. There were reoccurring pushes to delete Uber since 2017, but not sure how often people went back anyway.

I canceled my premium subscription because of all of the Joe Rogan episodes they deleted.

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Post by jmhyer123 »

coolso wrote: post #14
Apocryphon wrote: post #8

Did not know there were that many Neil Young and Joni Mitchell fans. I wonder if there's any studies on the stickiness of cancellations. There were reoccurring pushes to delete Uber since 2017, but not sure how often people went back anyway.

I canceled my premium subscription because of all of the Joe Rogan episodes they deleted.

Was there a comment box to tell them why you cancelled? Just wondering if the cancellations are sending mixed signals between the "I'm mad you took down Joe Rogan episodes" camp and the "I'm mad you took down Neil Young or others" camp of users.

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Post by nomel »

vkou wrote: post #9
taf2 wrote: post #3

i just signed up. what's wrong with spotify?

It is keeping the most popular podcast in the world on its platform, despite the host breaking Spotify's TOS on the subject of COVID misinformation.

> host breaking Spotify's TOS

Do you have a reference for this? I've been following this very closely, and this is the first time I've heard he broke the TOS.

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Post by hellisothers »

taf2 wrote: post #3

i just signed up. what's wrong with spotify?

From a utils standpoint nothing, I think they’re the best music subscription service on the average. In theory Apple Music (and some others) have better audio quality but most people won’t notice this, I have fancy audio gear and listen to some music on Apple “just in case”.

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Post by trezemanero »

>Last week it was reported that Spotify's market value has plummeted by $2.1 billion in just one week amid controversy around the platform's continued support of podcaster Joe Rogan.

Let's ignore the already downward of the share and the tech market itself.

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