The glory days of media companies are over. Record labels aren't needed to distribute music. Cable companies aren't needed to distribute shows. I have Spotify

The glory days of media companies are over. Record labels aren't needed to distribute music. Cable companies aren't needed to distribute shows. I have Spotify and Netflix subscriptions and that's about it. It's certainly annoying that some artists aren't on Spotify but I feel like that's not a winning strategy for them in the long term. I'm not going to have replaced cable and CDs and bootleg mp3s with juggling subscriptions to 10 different services. I'm going to be content with the content that is available. I'm totally fine not hearing the new Kanye album. I can listen to his old albums or one of the infinitely other great rap or hip hop albums on Spotify. And if I'm not listening to the new album, I'm not DJing from it, falling in love with it, and buying tickets to the world tour. I doubt he'll have any trouble selling tickets though. Netflix has it tougher with video. They don't have nearly the breadth of content to keep everyone happy in the first place, and re-watching the classics isn't as satisfying for video. So their strategy of producing originals is brilliant. I expect and hope Spotify does the same. They already have killer live Spotify sessions. And they are doing more and more to promote new artists through discovery tools. A Spotify record label could be rad. If artists don't want to play, they don't have to.