{"id":86005,"date":"2016-03-02T19:32:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=86005"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:03:49","slug":"if-this-it-true-spotify-may-never-fear-rivalry-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/if-this-it-true-spotify-may-never-fear-rivalry-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"If this it true, Spotify may never fear rivalry again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spotify<\/strong> has recently announced that as of this week, the  majority of your data will be moved from the company\u2019s old servers to  those of <strong>Google<\/strong>. So far, the music streaming service was initially using Amazon\u2019s data storage facilities, but has now decided to go with <strong>Google<\/strong> for its <strong>data analysis requirements<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While <strong>Spotify <\/strong>says their decision was for <strong>practical purposes<\/strong>, the action has already generated speculation. <strong>What if Google were to buy Spotify?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, Google already has <strong>GooglePlay Music<\/strong>, but if they did join forces, the service could be a clear winner in the world of music streaming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spotify <\/strong>currently has <strong>20 million<\/strong> paying subscribers , and <strong>75 million<\/strong> active users,while Apple barely has <strong>10 million<\/strong> subscribers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google <\/strong>already tried to acquire <strong>Spotify<\/strong> back in <strong>2014,<\/strong> but to no avail, simply down to the fact they couldn\u2019t decide on a final price. Could <strong>2016 <\/strong>be the year we see them make a decision that will drastically affect the music industry for years to come?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify has recently announced that as of this week, the majority of your data will be moved from the company\u2019s old servers to those of Google. So far, the music streaming service was initially using Amazon\u2019s data storage facilities, but has now decided to go with Google for its data analysis requirements. While Spotify says &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/if-this-it-true-spotify-may-never-fear-rivalry-again-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If this it true, Spotify may never fear rivalry again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":86006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2381],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-86005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionspotify"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329262,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86005\/revisions\/329262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86005"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=86005"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=86005"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=86005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}