Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders.
Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders.
open.substack.com Why Spotify Struggles to Make Money from Music Streaming
Despite being the king of music streaming, Spotify is struggling financially, but why?
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Yeah it's all the fault of the rightsholders. Definitely not bad management.
Not that I'm a fan of rightsholders but this is more like shifting the blame.
400m subs x 100$ a year on avg = 40 billions in revenue. Even if only 25% e.g. 10 bil is retained by Spotify it's a lot of money to maintain infra and pay stuff.
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