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Hope you find my Medium post thought provoking. Incentives in the music industry are setup such that any company offering promotional services to artists (ad
by pud 6y ago
Hope you find my Medium post thought provoking.
Incentives in the music industry are setup such that any company offering promotional services to artists (ad agency, PR firm, promoter, radio promo, marketing department, etc) can quietly go to fiverr.com, buy 100,000 bot streams for $20, then take credit for their client’s rise in popularity—-getting the artist to pay again.
Which, because of how streaming services pay, steals from artists who have real/organic streams.
- itronitron 6y agoAre there any music curating channels on YT or elsewhere that can filter through that mess? I guess the challenge there is keeping the curator honest and not 'sponsored'
- CodesInChaos 6y agoI'd like fixed price per play to get replaced by something closer to splitting a users subscription fees based on the time they spent listening to a particular song/artist.
- zapataband1 6y agothis 100%
- entropicdrifter 6y agoI might be wrong but I think Youtube Premium uses that pricing model. At least their FAQ seems to imply that's what's going on: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en
- slothtrop 6y agohttps://resonate.is/ https://resonate.is/ has a stream-to-own model
- snthd 6y agoExactly this - https://www.deezer.com/ucps https://www.deezer.com/ucps ("User-Centric Payment System"). To my knowledge Deezer hasn't (yet?) implemented this model.
- oh_sigh 6y agoIt's weird to me that a large share of my spotify monthly fees go to Ed Sheeran and Drake and Taylor Swift even though I literally have never streamed them, and almost none of my monthly fee goes towards the artist that I stream all the time.
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