Will Page Will Page Will Page is the Director of Economics at Spotify, a Swedish based digital music service. To date, Spotify has launched in 57 countries around the world and recently announced that it has reached 40 million active users and over 10 million paying subscribers. For six years he was the Chief Economist at the PRS for Music, a non-profit collection society representing writers, composers and music publishers in the UK. Page graduated with an MSc in Economics at the University of Edinburgh in 2002. His Masters thesis ‘Germany's Mezzogiorno Revisited’ looked at the problems facing East Germany ten years
Deezer 21 December, Deezer announced a new service level offering two hours of free, ad-supported music streaming a month, available to users worldwide, the company's first free music streaming service outside France. CEO Dauchez said that Deezer was also looking for a partner to introduce service in the United States, who was "able to provide us with a significant volume of subscribers" to help offset what he called the "unbelievably high" costs of entering the US market. As of December 2012, Deezer had about three million users paying for subscriptions, out of a monthly active user base of about seven million,