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You are helping them build their business by providing your content for free, as did contributors to Huffington Post. How do you feel the balance of compensati
by lancewiggs 10y ago
You are helping them build their business by providing your content for free, as did contributors to Huffington Post.
How do you feel the balance of compensation is, and how do you feel about your control - or lack of - of your own content?
- 6stringmerc 10y agoAs with Huffington Post, the hosting platform of Medium also sets an expectation floor for audiences / readers that the format will likely be to their preference. Thus the chicken-or-the-egg syndrome somewhat: Do they come to Medium for my Content, or did they discover my Content because it is on Medium? I think both avenues are realistic. Equal? I dunno, really I don't, and I think that's the secret sauce too a "community" of getting people to latch on and stay in it (e.g. Facebook). I think the balance of compensation is fine for my purposes. I don't recoup the $19.99 annual fee via DistroKid that gets me into iTunes, Spotify, etc, so I'm generally a skewed perspective. In practical terms though - and this I truly believe is important - I think less than 1% of the Content Creator Population in any given Commercial Art Enterprise in the United States earns a Middle-Class Living (Wage + Benefits). Basically I think it's unfair in Modern Times to think that Musicians and Writers really had a lot of opportunities to make a good living before technology came around. Of course I'd like that to change, and maybe Spotify and Medium can play a role in that, but breaking the grip of RIAA and AP/Reuters isn't exactly an overnight proposition.
- thoughtpalette 10y agoThanks for calling out DistroKid, that seems like a great service. Going to pass it along to some musical colleagues.