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What got you here won’t get you there: how Spotify built a new business

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Mark Mulligan
Business Strategy
Spotify
Streaming
Since its inception, Spotify has been, and continues to be, the streaming music market’s lightning rod. This is due to its continued ability to maintain leading market share and the fact it is the only leading global DSP that is independent and therefore has to focus place more focus on commercial sustainability than peers owned by global tech superpowers.
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Why HBO Max being back on Amazon Prime highlights the growing risk of piracy

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Hanna Kahlert
piracy
P2P download
Streaming
Warner Bros. Discovery and Amazon have announced that HBO Max will become available on Prime Video channels in the US, with users able to subscribe through the Amazon platform. HBO Max was previously withdrawn from Amazon Channels in 2021 due to a dispute over data sharing (Amazon Channels provides less user data than an equivalent Fire TV app would do for Warner Bros.
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