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Spotify—one of Apple's main rivals in both the latter's services strategy and in antitrust investigations—has released a new version of its iPhone app that supports home screen widgets, one of the flagship features of iOS 14.
Last month's release of iOS 14 brought home screen widgets—previously only the domain of iPads and Android phones—to iPhones. As we noted in our iOS 14 review, the value of the feature depends entirely on strong adoption and clever uses by third-party app developers.
Releases of widget-supporting apps from developers have been slow. Part of that was because Apple launched iOS 14 with less notice to developers than usual, meaning many were racing to play catch-up. But even now, a month later, the roster of widget-supporting apps has only grown a little.Spotify is one of the most high-profile apps on the App Store, and it finally made the jump with version 8.5.80 of its iOS app. Unfortunately, the new widget isn't all that powerful or useful. It essentially does the exact same thing the Music widget does: it shows a list of recently played songs or playlists that you can tap into from the home screen.
Tapping an entry doesn't just take you to the song in the app—it starts playing it right away, saving you an extra tap. Many users will wish they could customize what appears in the list or that they could control playback, as they currently can in the Android widget. As the setup stands now, the widget offers no customization options at all.
Some app developers (like Spark) have found creative ways to use the somewhat limited iOS widgets API (WidgetKit) to offer multiple, flexible uses of that precious home screen real estate. But users have said a lot of widgets just aren't that useful at the moment.
Those same users might wonder why we're not seeing essentially fully working slices of apps appearing on the home screen. Apple is likely to expand what developers can do with WidgetKit in future software releases, but there will always be some big limitations because of an emphasis on maintaining battery life.
Lots of interactivity and live data from multiple apps on the home screen could have a negative impact there—that's probably why Apple and many devs have generally been conservative in terms of making widgets ultra-powerful.
By contrast, the Android Spotify widget offers playback control. But Spotify actually removed that comparatively powerful widget in August of last year, only to reintroduce an improved version of it shortly afterward when users complained. The brief removal led to a plethora of user-made widgets to replace the lost functionality.
But at least Spotify is supporting widgets on iPhones at all—that wasn't a foregone conclusion.
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Spotify has reported a 27% year-on-year growth in premium subscribers during Q3. The streaming giant now has 144m paying customers.
The increase in subscribers was at the top end of its guidance range. Growth was strong across all regions, with the added benefit of new launches including in Russia, which is the most successful new market launch to date.
Spotify said it also had a strong performance from the global rollout of the Duo subscription offer. The Google Nest mini promotion in the quarter exceeded forecasts in the UK and Canada.
Total monthly average users (MAUs) grew by 29% year-on-year to 320 million, which was above the top end of the guidance range. There was a strong performance in India and Russia.
“We are particularly encouraged by our MAU strength this quarter, as it supports the long-term health of our customer acquisition funnel and gives us confidence as we continue to expand into new markets,” said Spotify in a statement.
'The size of our total catalogue increased significantly, and our advertising business returned to growth,' said CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek during the earnings call. 'We also beat expectations in our newest markets where we are seeing growth continue to accelerate. This affirms our belief that there is significant pent up demand for Spotify around the world - even in places where our service has yet to launch.
'These results illustrate the power of our business despite Covid and other related challenges ?across the globe. As a result of our performance this quarter, we have updated our Q4 guidance ranges to reflect increased optimism on where we expect to end the year.'
Covid-19 continued to impact Spotify, as the streaming giant suggested that summer demand was pulled forward in March and April during the lockdown period.
Global consumption hours surpassed pre-Covid levels during the quarter, and all regions have fully recovered. Consumption trends by platform have returned to normal useage, including in-car listening hours which are now above the pre-Covid peak. However, major territories including Germany and France and now re-introducing lockdown measures.
These results illustrate the power of our business despite Covid and other related challenges ?across the globe
Daniel Ek
Spotify said that useage on connected devices inside the home, which saw a spike during lockdown, remain above pre-Covid levels.
Total revenue of €1.975 billion (£1.79bn) grew 14% year-on-year in Q3 or 19% on a constant currency basis. Reported revenue was at the midpoint of the guidance range. Spotify made an operating loss of €224m (£202.6m).
Premium revenue grew 15% year-on-year to €1.79bn (£1.62bn), or 20% in constant currency terms, while ad-supported revenue rebounded, growing 9% year-on-year (or 15% in constant currency terms).
Within premium, average revenue per user (ARPU) of €4.19 in Q3 was down 10% year-on-year (or down 6% in constant currency terms). Product mix accounted for the majority of the ARPU decline, followed by geographic mix. In October, Spotify raised the price of the Family Plan in seven markets (Australia, Belgium, Switzerland, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia) alongside Duo in Colombia.
Daniel Ek addressed the price increases during the earnings call.
'While our primary focus remains user growth, based on our maturity in certain markets and the increasing value we provide to our subscribers - including enhanced content - we’ve seen engagement and more specifically value per hour grow substantially over the past few years,' he said. 'I believe an increase in value per hour is the most reliable signal we have in determining when we are able to use price as a lever to grow our business.
'And while it is still early, initial results indicate that in markets where we’ve tested increased prices, our users believe that Spotify remains an exceptional value and they have shown a willingness to pay more for our service. So as a result, you will see us further expand price increases, especially in places where we’re well-positioned against the competition and our value per hour is high. I would, however, throw in one big caveat, we will continue to tread carefully in these Covid times to ensure we don’t get ahead of the market.'
Ad-Supported revenue of €185m (£167.3m) outperformed the forecast, exhibiting a return to growth following the impact of the global pandemic in Q2.
As of Q3, Spotify had 1.9m podcasts on the platform (up from more than 1.5 million podcasts in Q2). During Q3, 22% of total MAUs engaged with podcast content (up from 21% of MAUs in Q2 2020).
Spotify’s guidance for Q4 is for 150-154m premium subscribers and 340-345m MAUs.
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