Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
by bluetidepro on Monday February 10, 2020 @07:45AM
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> Spotify managed to make musicians abismimal returns
I think that's very subjective. Spotify pays musicians the equivalent of what a user would actually pay the musician, which is basically nothing. We are to blame. As OP said:
> Our unwillingness to support content creators is what ruins things and puts everything behind an explicit paywall.
That's 100% true with most users. It has to be a very small % of users that will actually go out and purchase music that doesn't exist on Spotify for free/apart of their subscription. At the end of the day, the users just don't want to support content creators. Spotify isn't to blame for that.
I think that's very subjective. Spotify pays musicians the equivalent of what a user would actually pay the musician, which is basically nothing. We are to blame. As OP said:
> Our unwillingness to support content creators is what ruins things and puts everything behind an explicit paywall.
That's 100% true with most users. It has to be a very small % of users that will actually go out and purchase music that doesn't exist on Spotify for free/apart of their subscription. At the end of the day, the users just don't want to support content creators. Spotify isn't to blame for that.