An outage at Cloudflare led to several leading applications, such as Google Cloud, Discord, Spotify, Twitch, Firebase, Cursor ...

AI-generated songs have made their way onto streaming services and it’s not just ambient or electronic music: fake bands, be they rock, salsa, or jazz, are also abundant ...

Google platforms, Spotify and YouTube were down for tens of thousands of users worldwide. There were 13,000 reports of issues ...

Downdetector, which tracks outages based on user reports, recorded over 10,000 incidents related to Google Cloud and more ...

Here's how Spotify is taking on rival YouTube in video podcasting. Spotify is betting on video to take its podcasting business to the next level. The Swedish audio giant has been investing in ...

The rise of video podcasts has led to YouTube, not its audio competitors Spotify or Apple, becoming the top destination for American podcast listeners. YouTube pulls in 31% of weekly podcast ...

Cohen says that YouTube paid out at least $1.2 billion to rights-holders in the past year from ads on user-generated videos. Spotify’s entire ad-funded business (its “free tier”) generated $ ...

After several fits and starts, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek thinks the company is finally ready to rival YouTube as a destination for video podcasts. After several fits and starts, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek ...

The feature puts Spotify in more direct competition with YouTube as a place where creators can interact with their listeners. It also follows the company’s move into video podcasts, which began ...

Spotify also edges out YouTube Music in regard to audio quality by delivering a slightly richer listening experience, although neither have yet to offer their music streams in hi-resolution or ...

I’m not sure how this pans out! But I also read this news in a different way: these purchases set Spotify up to better compete with YouTube, specifically YouTube’s analytics. I’m thinking a ...