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Re:Spotify Adds Led Zeppelin as It Focuses on Mobile Business by viraptor on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @12:15PM (#6888891)
I think that given enough providers it could be stable. Right now we've got just few big players. Spotify, google, itunes, deezer in some places. Some are much bigger than others. Losing 0.5 potential listeners of not that much. But if we had 20+ providers, who would ever accept an exclusive deal? I.e. which artist would go for a "95% of listeners will not be able to access your music, but that's OK, you'll be exclusive and well promoted on our service" (+the deal signing bonus of course)
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Re:Spotify Adds Led Zeppelin as It Focuses on Mobile Business by chaz on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @12:52PM (#6889226)
Exclusivities don't need to last forever. An exclusive of a few months may be enough to acquire additional subscribers while keeping the cost low enough to be justified as an acquisition cost.

Personally, I think exclusives will always be around.

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