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Spotify Turns A Corner With First Ever Profit

Spotify finished 2018 with 96M paying subscribers around the world, up by 25M year-on-year.

That wasn’t the biggest news in Spotify’s freshly announced financials for Q4 2018, though.

Spotify Turns A Corner With First Ever Profit

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Spotify finished 2018 with 96M paying subscribers around the world, up by 25M year-on-year.


That wasn’t the biggest news in Spotify’s freshly announced financials for Q4 2018, though.

The company posted its first ever quarterly operating profit (€94m) in the final three months of last year, driven by lower operating costs (-17% YoY). The firm, which posted a €442m net profit in the quarter – thanks to €387m of finance-related income – said that “movements in our share price in Q4 had a [positive] sizeable impact on our reported results” but that “the business would have been profitable regardless”.

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The Unison Fund Welcomes New Chair and Additions to Board of Directors

The music charity welcomes Sarah Kilpatrick as the board's new chair, while Patrick Guay, Ali Slaight, Iain Taylor and Philip Vanden Brande all join as incoming directors, contributing to a vision that strives toward greater regional representation.

The Unison Fund has called on new names to begin its latest chapter.

The Toronto-based music charity announced its new board of directors for 2026 following its annual general meeting, welcoming a new chair on board, Sarah Kilpatrick, formerly the vice chair for five years and the vice president of corporate affairs at Music Canada. Additionally, the Unison Fund has welcomed Patrick Guay, Ali Slaight, Iain Taylor and Philip Vanden Brande as incoming directors on its board.

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