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Re:Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the com... by loandbehold on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:03AM (#38514804)
Joe Rogan brings in 10s millions of listeners. On the other hand it's not clear what value those employees who were let go brought. The software behind Spotify is pretty generic. Listening experience isn't much different between say Spotify,YouTube Music and Amazon Music. Software engineers might not want to hear it, but content is more important than software used to consume it. Book vs book's cover.
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Re:Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the com... by o-alex on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:15AM (#38514881)
A more suitable comparison would be between the book contents and the paper and fonts of the text. I don't know how much you would enjoy a book on bad paper and bad, barely legible text.
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Re:Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the com... by loandbehold on Monday December 04, 2023 @04:22AM (#38515268)
Yes, but printing book legibly is a solved problem. So all books in the bookstore are legible. Books are competing on content, not legibility.
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Re:Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the com... by mvdtnz on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:08AM (#38514830)
> Joe Rogan brings in 10s millions of listeners

Has this ever been confirmed by Spotify?

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Re:Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the com... by epistasis on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:14AM (#38514870)
What revenue do these listeners bring?
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Re:Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the com... by loandbehold on Monday December 04, 2023 @04:21AM (#38515257)
Spotify makes money through ads for non-paying users and subscription fees from paying users. For non-paying users, time listened translates into ad impressions. New content also brings in new paid subscribers, as it makes subscription more valuable to the user allowing listening without ads.
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Re:Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the com... by whiddershins on Monday December 04, 2023 @09:40AM (#38517830)
Also, even when you pay, Rogan still has ads.
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