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by saaaaaam 9y ago
Interesting. Where do you live? Here in London they are really commonplace - you see them on people on the tube all the time and I notice them being used fairly regularly by all ages and sexes for contactless payments, running, etc. In fact
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by saaaaaam 9y ago
Famous artists can yes. If you are a semi-known band with four people playing a twenty date tour playing 400 capacity venues with two local support acts you're probably not making so much. That's 8,000 people who care enough to co
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by saaaaaam 9y ago
Very minor correction - 70% goes to rights holders, 30% goes to Spotify. A rights holder may or may not be an artist - quite often, the rights holder for the recording royalty is a record label, and the artist is getting a percentage of wha
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by saaaaaam 9y ago
Pulling numbers out of thin air: Let's assume that Justin Bieber gets 100m streams this month, and that's 5% of all streams on Spotify. That means there are 2bn streams across all artists. If your 10 favourite bands between them g
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by saaaaaam 9y ago
Deezer is apparently beginning to address this.
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by saaaaaam 9y ago
Yes and no. 30 years ago the supply chain for recorded music went something like this: Songwriter - publisher - recording artist - record label - wholesale distribution - retailer - audience. Someone would write a song. Ideally they would h
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by saaaaaam 9y ago
The revenues from live when you write or co-write for a globally recognised artist who tours will always be more lucrative for songwriters than the revenues from recordings. This is because (generally speaking) the revenues for live for son
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by saaaaaam 9y ago
I imagine the problem is that a lot of people who define themselves as "growth hackers" are (a) only interested in promoting whatever it is they are promoting, and (b) like to think they keep a competitive edge by keeping their kn
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by saaaaaam 9y ago
If there is a vey obvious link that immediately unsubscribes me then I will use it. By immediately I mean "when I click this link I am removed from all future mailings without having to do anything else and without a delay". If it
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by saaaaaam 9y ago
Often this is because they are unofficial remixes or otherwise "grey area" content where the licensing isn't in place to be able to commercially release. If you make a track using element from a well known artist, often that
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by saaaaaam 9y ago
I think Beatport does a lot of what you're talking about - it's the go-to store for DJs and there are DJ charts that are pretty robust and well respected. https://www.beatport.com/charts Regarding the early "
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by saaaaaam 9y ago
The reason that they couldn't do this faster is that until recently they were not in a legal position to ask for payment because they hadn't negotiated a deal with the organisations who collect royalties on behalf of songwriters -
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by saaaaaam 9y ago
Delivering music online is hard. Not technically hard but legally hard. The reason for that is that there are two copyrights in a recorded song: the recording itself and then the song which is contained within that recording - the actual wr
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by saaaaaam 10y ago
"I forgot to pay a bill basically because I forgot to check it was set on auto renew. It was for the landlord of my office space. She emailed me but I forgot to give her my up to date email address a while back - I never hear from her
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by saaaaaam 10y ago
Interesting piece of commentary about this by Alistair Sloan here: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/10/uk-choice-h...
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by saaaaaam 10y ago
Linkfire
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by saaaaaam 10y ago
I pay £20 for 20GB of 4G data in the UK (plus unlimited minutes + texts - which I barely use). This includes Spotify Premium (which I would otherwise pay £9.99 for - and was, prior to my network introducing this), so in reality I'm pay
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by saaaaaam 11y ago
This product area is something that I had reason to purchase recently; the whole space is a bit of a mess, and data.com (owned by salesforce) is the market leader. So great idea and interesting approach, but I think your pricing is rather h
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by saaaaaam 12y ago
I don't know the etiquette of posting here, but I just wrote quite a long response to a comment by JumpCrisscross who says that the meat of the deal is the headphones business rather than the streaming business. I don't know if th
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by saaaaaam 12y ago
Wow. Hold on. The meat of this deal is absolutely the streaming service. Apple NEEDS streaming. I buy an iPhone: I pay $100 to have ALL THE MUSIC ALL THE TIME with that phone, for the lifetime of the device. Awesome! It's like Amazon P
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by saaaaaam 12y ago
This will be interesting if it happens. The big issue with SoundCloud is that, so long as they have been a gutsy startup acting as a promotional platform for music, rights-holders have stood back and let them exist. I would imagine that an
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by saaaaaam 13y ago
Heh, leashes - yes! And now give us the link to your ambitious sounding project.
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by saaaaaam 13y ago
It's a nice demo. I struggle to see why anyone beyond you, the artist, and a few hardcore fans would care though. Like I said above, streaming is boring, it's a commodity service. Recommendation and curation are part and parcel of
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by saaaaaam 13y ago
People halo around the most visible artists. The various services promote the most popular artists, because that's what their audience wants. As the model shifts from a lean forward (I buy music that I like, so that I can listen to it)
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by saaaaaam 13y ago
"We have a rolling one-year contract with you. It's just been renegotiated..."
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by saaaaaam 13y ago
http://www.patentgenius.com/assignee/TheEchoNestCorporation....
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by saaaaaam 13y ago
I think this is a disaster. It's an awful, hideous, stupid (stupid for the wider industry) defensive acquisition on Spotify's part, paid for, presumably largely, by stock - I doubt they really have the cash to buy companies of the
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by saaaaaam 13y ago
Sales people generate their own leads, from research, networking, recommendations, ploughing through conference line-ups, hitting the phones and asking who the right person to speak to is - and on and on. If you have to give them leads, the
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by saaaaaam 13y ago
Your first challenge is selling to the sales people. Not many people can sell effectively. You need to catch their attention with something more than "I have no product, but I'd like you to sell it - but I can only pay you when yo
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by saaaaaam 13y ago
It's not just news. It's a "world exclusive" apparently...

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