Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Tidal all offer the exact same product: A library of 100 million songs. As Jimmy [Iovine] points out in the podcast, this lack of differentiation turns music into a utility. Music is now indistinguishable from tap water or electricity. […] Iovine put it bluntly: “The streaming services have aweiterlesen

Spotify so: Since most users will never subscribe to more than one streaming service, he believes that limiting access to music only incentivizes fans to seek it out on pirate sites or YouTube, where it generates less revenue. „I was brought onboard to strengthen the bridge between Spotify and the music community,“ he says. Bloomberg so:weiterlesen

This afternoon, Apple submitted a preliminary proposal to the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board to simplify the way music-streaming companies pay songwriters and publishers — in a way that could make it more expensive for rivals like Spotify and YouTube to keep offering free streaming. Right now, streaming companies pay songwriters and publishers between 10.5 percent and 12weiterlesen

Rdio meldete am Montag Insolvenz an. Die jetzt veröffentlichten Details lesen sich…verheerend: The bulk of Rdio’s revenue came from its $9.99 per month subscriptions. The company took in $1.5 million per month there. Advertising only accounted for $100,000-$150,000 per month.That was dwarfed by the nearly $4 million in monthly operating expenses, including payroll for 140weiterlesen

Dave Pell schreibt die für mich beste Einschätzung über Jay-Zs Musikstreaming-Service Tidal. You just held a press conference with some of the biggest celebrities of our time. And the consumer buzz and press you got wasn’t even close to a Tim Cook Apple keynote. You’re in the technology business now. And we’re all in aweiterlesen