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For anyone who is confused about what the difference is (like I was initially), consider the most extreme case for the "user-centric" model: suppose I subscribe
by rcthompson 8y ago
For anyone who is confused about what the difference is (like I was initially), consider the most extreme case for the "user-centric" model: suppose I subscribe to a streaming service, paying $10 a month. If I only listen to a single artist for that entire month, then my entire $10 (minus the service's own cut) goes to that artist, regardless of that artist's fraction of the total songs streamed that month by all users.
- trophycase 8y agoInteresting idea, and not that it doesn't happen now, but I can just see streaming services making deals with major record labels to do stuff like autoplay, and pushing major label songs very very hard.
- MapleWalnut 8y agoI think Youtube Red does something like this.
- Technetium_Hat 8y agoYouTube red distributes money according to watch time per month.
- cbcoutinho 8y agoI use music streaming services mostly for their shuffle features, not for playing music I select. I'm not a fan of this idea, because then those services would be able to pick winners and losers (the artists) based on a shuffling algorithm I don't have control over. This creates a perverse incentive where labels could try to influence the frequency of their artists in those shuffled playlists over smaller labels and independent artists.