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More than music: How Spotify, Apple & Amazon promote their streaming platforms with display ads

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:23:44 +0000

Remember the days when listening to your favorite artist meant buying a record or CD?

While vinyl album sales are on a strong upward trajectory, it’s fair to say we’re living in the digital music age. Streaming overtook physical sales and downloads for the first time in 2018, and it’s hard to see that trend reversing any time soon.

Which is music to the ears of the streaming industry, with 91 percent of US internet users listening via some kind of streaming service in 2023:

Inside Samsung’s $150M+ display ad strategy: Can it overtake Apple?

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:06:00 +0000

Founded in 1938, Samsung is a South Korean conglomerate with affiliates selling everything from life insurance to engineering services to oil tankers.

But, from a B2C perspective, the company is best known for appliances and other electronics products. It’s the world’s second-biggest smartphone manufacturer, with a market share of 16.3 percent as of Q4 2023…

…and it’s also a major player in countless other consumer electronics niches, including smart TVs, refrigerators, and laptops.