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Spotify User Profile An Increasingly Mainstream Yet Digitally Sophisticated Audience

Report by Mark Mulligan

17 Nov 2016

The 20,000 Foot View: Spotify is the poster child of streaming music, having done more than any other company to grow the segment and to prove the freemium business model at scale. It has built an active user base that outshines any other freemium music service, and through tactics such as telco bundles and pricing discounts continues to squeeze every last drop of opportunity out of the XXX subscription model. Spotify has successfully diversified its user base beyond its initial early adopter base and now has a broad mix of users in which females are as well represented as males – no small feat for the traditionally male dominated streaming music market.

Key XXX of consumers use Spotify weekly, rising to XXX in its homeland Sweden, and falling to XXX in France, homeland of competitor Deezer

Spotify users are evenly distributed age-wise, with a slight bias towards under XXX of Spotify users are under XXX while XXX are under XXX core age group is XXX year olds XXX of the total)

Spotify’s peak penetration is among XXX year old females XXX users are sophisticated digital consumers, markedly over-indexing for most digital activities

There are XXX million Spotify Monthly Active Users (MAUs)

Spotify users are much more likely than overall consumers to watch YouTube (overall and for music videos)

They are much more likely to have music and video subscriptions and to pay for apps

Spotify users are on average twice as likely to be high spenders in music, online video and mobile XXX are messaging app users and XXX are mobile ad blocking users

Companies mentioned in this report: Apple Music, Deezer, Napster, Netflix, SoundCloud, Spotify, Telia, Tidal, Vevo, YouTube

Spotify User Profile An Increasingly Mainstream Yet Digitally Sophisticated Audience

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