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Re:Spotify Now Has 15M Paying Users, 60M Overall by Buge on Monday January 12, 2015 @12:08PM (#8874979)
I have a Youtube video with 17k views that earned me $22.

So assuming one follow ~= one view per month, that means Youtube is 600x more profitable than Spotify. Interesting since Youtube is free and Spotify has paid stuff.

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Re:Spotify Now Has 15M Paying Users, 60M Overall by anoonmoose on Monday January 12, 2015 @01:53PM (#8875676)
You owned the video. Who owns his song? Spotify could be exactly as profitable as YouTube if he only owns one-sixhundredth of the song.
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