The new at Spotify!

Yesterday the press conference took place, the CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek and the least we can say is that there is something new! Small overview of your Web company (agence web) was preferred, I recommended Jalis.

Spotify, a musical social network

20 million users, 5 million paying subscribers in four years are on this occasion that Spotify decided to announce novelties on its music platform for the users’ greatest pleasure. Now, artists can have an artist profile. We can then follow their news, tastes and recommendations.

Then Spotify offers to this a new function of Discovery which allows to discover less known artists thanks to recommendations of other singers, musicians or friends thanks to your habits of listening. Maybe you can know who likes listening to Bruno Mars, for example! A real social network of artists!

Spotify vs Myspace

With all these novelties, we have the impression to face a new Myspace! It is necessary to say that at the beginning of the year, Myspace had announced its big return (even if it had never been question of departure from them), a return which many musical platforms did not think much of. In fact, Myspace has underwent a big revision to be more fashionable since September. It is thus the same period when Spotify chose to renew its platform.

Who from the classic art Myspace or young person Spotify will win the battle? Or it is simply platforms as Deezer or even iTunes. In any case, as indicates Yann Thébault, the manager of Spotify France et Europe, their real enemy is the illegal downloading...