Spotify
Ed Couchman currently serves as the Head of Advertising Sales for Spotify in the UK and Northern Europe since January 2023. In addition, Ed has been a member of the Board of Trustees for Media Trust since May 2017. Prior to this, notable roles include Regional General Manager at Snap Inc. covering DACH, Netherlands, Nordics, and the UK until January 2023, and Director of Agency Partnerships at Facebook UK from February 2012 to May 2018. Ed's experience also encompasses positions at Channel 4, Associated Northcliffe Digital, and ad2-one, with a foundational role in new business development at Reed Business Information. Ed holds a BA Hons in Politics from the University of South Wales, earned between 1994 and 1997.
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Spotify
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Spotify is an audio and media streaming service that hosts music, podcasts and tv shows. Founded in 2008, Spotify has grown to one of the largest streaming platforms in the world, offering over 70 million tracks to its 360+ million users across 170+ markets. They are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with offices in over a dozen countries. Spotify’s mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify helps users to discover, manage, and share music on their phone, computer or tablet by browsing through the collections of friends, artists, and celebrities, by creating a radio station, or by curating their own playlists. A leader in revenue generation for the music industry, over 1,000 artists generated over $1 million on Spotify in 2021, 450 generations more than $2 million, and 130 generated over $5 million. Spotify also paid out over $1 billion dollars to publishing rights holders (songwriters and producers) in 2021.