{"id":13966,"date":"2025-08-04T13:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=13966"},"modified":"2025-08-04T13:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:47:12","slug":"spotify-raises-subscription-prices-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=13966","title":{"rendered":"Spotify raises subscription prices | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spotify announced on Monday that its premium subscription prices will increase for users in multiple markets across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the next month, impacted subscribers will receive an email explaining that their monthly subscription cost will increase from 10,99 \u20ac\u00a0 to 11,99 \u20ac.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spotify made a similar change last year for users in the U.S., increasing prices from $10.99 to $11.99 \u2014 at the time, it marked the second instance when they had hiked prices over the last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These price hikes arrive after Spotify\u2019s rough earnings report last week, when the platform missed revenue expectations, causing its stock price to drop 11%. On the corresponding earnings call with investors, CEO Daniel Ek stated that he is \u201cunhappy with where [Spotify is] today,\u201d but remained \u201cconfident in the ambitions we laid out for this business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spotify\u2019s shares rose 5% in pre-market trading after announcing the price hikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify announced on Monday that its premium subscription prices will increase for users in multiple markets across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Over the next month, impacted subscribers will receive an email explaining that their monthly subscription cost will increase from 10,99 \u20ac\u00a0 to 11,99 \u20ac. Spotify made a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[269,4804,5647,1769,7629],"class_list":{"0":"post-13966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-prices","9":"tag-raises","10":"tag-spotify","11":"tag-subscription","12":"tag-techcrunch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}