The music industry faced a significant decline in its revenue after the introduction of digital formats in the late 1990s and the increase in the sharing of illegal file. This case evaluates the business model of Spotify, which was set against the backdrop of that music industry.
Apple, Google, and Pandora has been the potential rivals for Spotify. This case poses the question that the model used by Spotify has the ability to compete for longer term, despite the revenue growth and increasing users in 2014.
The company has expanded in some of the market in which they recently entered, the case considers the reliability of the Spotify model to again increase the industry revenue, and global expansion.
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