{"id":987690,"date":"2026-01-26T09:20:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987690"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:49:27","slug":"spotifys-paradox-record-profits-713m-users-but-a-stock-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/spotifys-paradox-record-profits-713m-users-but-a-stock-in-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify\u2019s paradox: Record profits, 713M users, but a stock in limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company published its Q3 results back in November. The numbers were staggering. <\/p>\n<p>Over 700 million monthly active users. 281 million paying subscribers. Gross margin at 31.6%. \u20ac806 million in free cash flow in just one quarter. Nearly \u20ac3 billion over the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company published its Q3 results back in November. The numbers were staggering. Over 700 million monthly active users. 281 million paying subscribers. Gross margin at 31.6%. \u20ac806 million in free cash flow in just one quarter. Nearly \u20ac3 billion over the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}