audiobooks
also referred to as: audio books
3 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 18, 2023 by Daniel Ek · across every show →
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May 18, 2023 neutral
Ek: German music labels uploaded audiobooks onto Spotify using catalog rights
“For instance, in Germany, unbeknownst to us, but one of the sort of crazy things that ended up happening was just people started uploading audio books because it turns out that these music labels actually own a bunch of audio book rights.”
May 18, 2023
May 18, 2023 bullish
Ek: Global audiobook listenership will expand to hundreds of millions
“Our view is we eventually think audiobooks should be much, much larger than what it is today. Hundreds of millions of people who are actually listening to audiobooks because the content is great, rather than today what's tens of millions of people.”