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I actually kind of don't get it, MegaUpload made some pretty good money from showing ads, didn't it? This guy says he doesn't expect to make much from the ads.

• technoslut 15y ago
  He's attempting to understand who his audience is with this act. I don't read more into it than that. This isn't the same situation the recording industry is in. If they gave their music away for free they would be broke.
• Jimmie 15y ago
  Megaupload made the bulk of it's money from upselling customers into premium accounts. The only way to make good money from ads is if the ads are relevant for the people who come for the content. I can't imagine many relevant ads for people who are coming to a new record label's site for a particular band. They'd probably make more money selling band t-shirts.
  • notahacker 15y ago
    For a record label with a big catalogue of artists that don't attract many paid downloads, selling premium accounts probably isn't the worst revenue model, at least until it comes to deciding who deserves royalties...
    • Jimmie 15y ago
      Allow the customer to assign weighted values to who gets the money from their premium service. Or if it's a streaming service divide it among the artists that were actually listened to.