Rise of Music Streaming Service - Spotify8734708
Over the previous decade we have seen music streaming services in the business 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 websites argue they are contributing positively to the industry with the underlying fact that music seems to be growing again. But like something else in this world where there is ups, sadly, there should be downs and for streaming websites this has definitely been the case, especially over the last couple of year.
Music streaming websites in general all operate in similar methods. The majority enables customers to use their service for free, with the downside of getting to listen to advertising 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 generally permitted to customize their own profiles with any music they choose, create playlists of their personal and use the services radio setting exactly 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, and so on. But I want to focus on the player that has impacted the industry the most, or so it seems, Spotify.
Spotify, founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, launched in 2008 in hopes of changing 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 precisely what you are looking for. Spotify also allows you to "follow" your buddies and artists in the business to see what they're listening to. Spotify partnered up with Facebook exactly where users with Spotify accounts could choose an option where the recent 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. These days, Spotify has 1,500 employees, 75+ millions customers, music accessible in 50+ languages and is accessible in an application type on almost every platform.
