Ch. 1: Overview of Marketing (Brief History and Mission Statement)

Spotify was founded in Stockholm in 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon and although the company's head office is now in London, much of its research and development remains in Stockholm. The streaming service launched on October 7, 2008 and the company initially limited the sign-up for free services by making it invite-only. Paid-for subscriptions were made available immediately but despite this, Spotify reported a $4.4 million loss in 2008.
By 2012, the company had launched its service on Android smartphones.
In 2015, the company updated and rebranded itself, adding music videos and clips to the service. By that point, the service had over 25 billion hours of songs available.
Spotify’s mission statement is “to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by these creators.” The mission statement sheds more light on the goals of the company and how it wants these goals to become a reality

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Ch.10 - Product Concepts

Since its introduction to the American market in 2011, Spotify has made efforts to adapt in order to look more attractive to their target market, which are millennials. In 2015 Spotify changed the design of their brand, this included, the user interface, the logo, the ads they attempted to create a new brand identity to show that Spotify was as rich and lively as the music culture, rather than simply a technology service that served up songs.

Final exam-Current Situation

According to a research conducted by the Global Web Index in March of this year that surveyed almost 4000 internet users, media consumption has grown exponentially, video and music streaming for the most part. Music streaming services use has increased among Spotify's target demographic 28% by Gen Z and 35% by Millennials. The pandemic has affected most streaming and social media positively, having a vast percentage of the target demographic at home means that all this services can be accompanying users for most of their day therefore providing companies with even more data to recommend content targeted to each user. Spotify's also implemented a featured for artist to fund-raise directly from fans through the artist's profile page.

Ch. 18 Social media and Marketing

Being a 21st century brand, Spotify takes full advantage of the most used social media platforms, having a dedicated interface when sharing a playlist or song on Twitter(600 million users) or Facebook(1.6 billion users) tells us how important is for them to provide an engaging way for listeners to share their favorite music. But Spotify can be considered a social media platform in development that could evolve into something bigger, with more social sharing features, and it also it's being used as a marketing medium just like Facebook, with targeted video, audio and visual ads.

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