Technologies covered by Spotify patent families worldwide July 2022
The Swedish streaming giant Spotify with its 158 million subscribers in over 178 countries is the market leader in the audio streaming business. To stay on top of the market, Spotify has been investing heavily in their research and development leading to 614 active patents established by the company since 2000. As of July 2022, Spotify accumulated 86 patent families in the technology area of media streaming followed by another 72 related to recommendation systems.