Amaya Toman In today's summary of the day, we will talk about two different records - one relates to Spotify and the number of paying users of its music streaming service of the same name, the other record is related to Google and its earnings for the past quarter. The third news will not be so cheerful, because Nintendo has decided to put its game Dr. Mario World for mobile phones.
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Spotify has reached 165 million paying users
Streaming service Spotify officially boasted of reaching 165 million paying users and 365 million monthly active users this week. These figures were announced as part of the announcement of the company's financial results. In the case of the number of paying users, this is a year-on-year increase of 20%, in the case of the monthly number of active users, a year-on-year increase of 22%. Competing music streaming services in the form of Apple Music and Amazon Music do not officially release these numbers, according to data from Music Ally, Apple Music has an estimated 60 million paying users and Amazon Music has 55 million paying users.
Podcasts are also becoming more and more popular on Spotify, and Spotify is also developing this segment of its business accordingly, continuing with various acquisitions and investments. For example, Spotify recently bought the exclusive rights to the podcasts Call Her Daddy and Armchair Expert, and for some time now the Podz platform has also been under its umbrella. There are currently 2,9 million podcasts on the music streaming service Spotify.
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Pavel Jelic Record earnings for Google
Google achieved record earnings of $17,9 billion during the past quarter. Google's search segment turned out to be the most profitable, earning the company more than $14 billion. YouTube's ad revenue rose to $6,6 billion during the period, and according to Google, that figure could rise even further in the future thanks to the soaring popularity of Shorts. Google does not officially publish specific figures regarding revenue from the sale of individual hardware products, such as smartphones. This segment is included in the "Other" category, which generated a total of $XNUMX billion for Google during the period.
Google's second quarter revenue:
2021: $61.9 billion
2020: $38.3 billion
2019: $38.9 billion
2018: $32.7 billion
2017: $26.0 billion
2016: $21.5 billion
2015: $17.7 billion
2014: $15.9 billion
2013: $13.1 billion
2012: $11.8 billion
2011: $9.0 billion
2010: $6.8 billion— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) July 27, 2021
Goodbye, Dr. Mario World
Nintendo announced earlier this week that it plans to "decommission" its mobile game called Dr. Mario World. The final putting of this game to the ice should happen on the first of November this year. Game Dr. Mario World was introduced about two years ago, and it is also the first game from Nintendo's studio to suffer this fate. According to data from Sensor Tower, the game Dr. Mario World the least successful title among all Nintendo smartphone games. According to Sensor Tower, another Nintendo game called Super Mario Run doesn't fare too well in this regard either. The highest-grossing mobile game from Nintendo's studio is Fire Emblem Heroes, which brings in more revenue for the company than all other game titles combined. However, smartphone games only make up a negligible portion of Nintendo's revenue - just 3,24% of total revenue last year.
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