Rise of Music Streaming Service - Spotify2957911
Over the previous decade we have seen music streaming services in the industry rise tremendously. The idea of music streaming services is to bring you millions of songs, of all genres, for what ever situation you land yourself in. Streaming services have forced big players like iTunes to follow in their path or sadly get left behind. Streaming web sites argue they are contributing positively to the industry with the underlying fact that music appears to be expanding again. But like anything else in this world exactly where there is ups, unfortunately, there must be downs and for streaming websites this has certainly been the case, especially over the last couple of year.
Music streaming websites in general all operate in similar methods. The majority allows customers to use their service for free, with the downside of getting to listen to advertising in in between songs, but also have a paid version of the service, where you pay a set price per month or year, and draw in small to no interruption. Streaming services, in brief, have banks of music from a wide range of artists and genres where customers are usually permitted to customize their personal profiles with any music they choose, produce playlists of their own and use the services radio setting where they curate songs for you. Before music streaming services began booming, paying a set cost for a single song on iTunes and uploading it on your device seemed to be the most traveled path. In today's age it is clear that streaming services are taking over, from movies to music, streaming appears to be the most efficient way of operating. There are many streaming services to choose from in our day and age, such as, Pandora, Google Music, Amazon Prime Music, Apple Music, etc. But I want to focus on the player that has impacted the business the most, or so it appears, Spotify.
Spotify, founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, launched in 2008 in hopes of altering the way we listen to music forever. Along with most streaming services, Spotify enables you to search any artist, track, album, genre or playlist to find exactly what you are looking for. Spotify also enables you to "adhere to" your buddies and artists in the industry to see what they are listening to. Spotify partnered up with Facebook where customers with Spotify accounts could choose an option exactly where the current songs they listened to would pop up on their Facebook profile. In my opinion this was Spotify's very best decision as far as expanding their service. Today, Spotify has 1,500 workers, 75+ millions users, music available in 50+ languages and is accessible in an application type on almost every platform.
