Type of business | Public |
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Traded as | NYSE: SPOT |
Founded | 23 April 2006; 13 years ago |
Headquarters | Luxembourg City[1] (legal domicile) Stockholm, Sweden (administrative headquarters) |
Country of origin | Sweden |
No. of locations |
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Founder(s) | Daniel Ek, Martin Lorentzon |
CEO | Daniel Ek |
Industry | Streaming on-demand media |
Revenue | US$5.98 billion (FY 2018)[3] |
Net income | US$88.65 million (FY 2018)[3] |
Employees | 4,165+[4] |
Website | www.spotify.com |
Alexa rank | 106 (February 2019)[5] |
Registration | Required |
Users | 217 million (100 million paying) |
Launched | 7 October 2008; 10 years ago |
Type | Free of ads | Mobile listening | Enhanced sound quality (up to 320kbit/s bitrate) | Listen offline | Spotify Connect |
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Spotify Free | No | Limited (shuffle-only mode) | No | No | Limited (Spotify Connect speaker with new SDK) |
Spotify Premium & Spotify for family | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
'Clearest Blue' by CHVRCHES being played in the Spotify for iOS app. | |||||||||||||
Developer(s) | Spotify AB | ||||||||||||
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Initial release | 7 October 2008 | ||||||||||||
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Written in | Primarily Python, with some Java, C, and C++ components[166] | ||||||||||||
Operating system | Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux | ||||||||||||
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Type | Music streaming | ||||||||||||
License | Proprietary | ||||||||||||
Website | www.spotify.com |
Audio format[224] | ||||
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Desktop | Android | iPhone, iPad | Web player | Chromecast |
24 kbit/s HE-AACv2 | 24 kbit/s Ogg Vorbis | |||
96kbit/s Ogg Vorbis | ||||
128kbit/s AAC | ||||
160kbit/s Ogg Vorbis | ||||
256kbit/s AAC (premium) | ||||
320kbit/s Ogg Vorbis (premium) | 320kbit/s Ogg Vorbis |
History of expansion | ||
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Date | Countries/Regions | Reference(s) |
October 2008 |
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10 February 2009 |
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18 May 2010 |
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14 July 2011 |
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12 October 2011 |
| [236][237] |
15 November 2011 |
| [238] |
16 November 2011 |
| [239] |
13 March 2012 |
| [240] |
22 May 2012 |
| [241][242] |
13 November 2012 |
| [243][244][245] |
12 February 2013 |
| [246] |
16 April 2013 |
| [247][248] |
24 September 2013 |
| [249][250] |
12 December 2013 |
| [251][252] |
8 April 2014 |
| [253] |
28 May 2014 |
| [254] |
30 September 2014 |
| [255] |
30 March 2016 |
| [256] |
29 September 2016 |
| [257] |
22 August 2017 |
| [258][259] |
13 March 2018 |
| [260] |
13 November 2018 |
| [261] |
26 February 2019 |
| [262] |
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