As a senior writer at Billboard, Kristin covers music publishing and technology, with particular expertise in artificial intelligence. Recently, she launched the Billboard newsletter Machine Learnings, continuing her coverage of AI’s rapid impact on the music industry. In 2023, Kristin was named a finalist for the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award for her investigation of a $23 million YouTube royalty fraud case. In 2024, she was a finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club Sout...| Billboard
Spotify announced it will be adding an on-platform pre-save feature at its Stream On event Wednesday.| Billboard
Artists can now opt in to Discovery Mode through the Spotify for Artists tool, the platform announced during its Stream On event| Billboard
Spotify has launched an audiobook store that boasts more than 300,000 titles, including Delia Owens’ “Where the Crawdads Sing,” Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” and Colleen Hoover’s “It Ends With Us.”| Billboard