Spotify has launched Showcase, a new ad campaign tool designed to help artists and their teams run sponsored recommendation ads. These ads appear as mobile banners at the top of Spotify's home page, a highly frequented section of the platform.

Instagram has announced a new way for artists to reach their fans on Instagram with Instagram Stories integration for Canvas.

SoundCloud is expanding its SoundCloud Premier program by adding a new service that lets creators distribute their music to major streaming platforms such at Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music at no additional cost.

Spotify has launched a new podcast dedicated portal called Spotify for Podcasters that allows podcast creators that will give them access to valuable analytics such as episode performance, daily stats on listener demographics, location, engagement, and much more.

Spotify, the popular music streaming platform, has announced that is allowing independent artists to upload their music to Spotify for free without the need for a label or distributor.