Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?

Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by blazzy on Monday February 10, 2020 @12:26AM (#22286611)

That still sounds like a bad model for paying artists. If I sign up for Spotify and only listen to a few artists I'm fond of, those artists get next to nothing of my subscription fees. Instead I'm subsidizing the payouts to artists like Drake. Who I have nothing against, I'm just not listening to his work.

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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by nabnob on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:17AM (#22289777)

I'm pretty sure Spotify does pay artists a fraction of the subscription revenue, based on the number of listens relative to other artists.

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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by tartoran on Monday February 10, 2020 @08:07AM (#22288749)

That’s the problem. The subscription fees should go towards what one listens not average over all artists or some other kind of formula spotify came up with. This could be like micropayemnts and i think would change the dynamics quite a bit

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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by pgm8705 on Monday February 10, 2020 @09:37AM (#22289427)

I've always wondered why it isn't done like this. It doesn't seem like it would make a difference to Spotify. Is it the record label forcing the current model?

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