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Spotify Earnings Growth Still Comes At A Cost

Mark Mulligan
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Spotify’s 2016 accounts reveal strong growth in both revenue and user, as well as improved conversion to paid. But they also show growing losses (both in absolute and relative terms) for streaming music’s leading player. The health of Spotify is a bellwether for the health of the streaming music market and its current prognosis is that it is fit and healthy now, but that will end sometime unless it improves its lifestyle. 

Companies and brands mentioned in this report: Amazon, AOL, Alibaba, Merlin, Polygram, Spotify, Tencent, Universal Music, Vivendi