Universal Music Group: The Gatekeepers of Music
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Universal Music Group: The Gatekeepers of Music
Good insight in this @DKThomp episode: the old model of pay-per-album record meant that music companies made the most money from sophisticated superusers.
But streaming sites profit most from the apathetic casual user, and content follows and suffers.
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Arpit Guptax.comThere is an overload of music. 60,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify every day. Over 20% of those don’t get streamed even once. The ubiquitous access to almost every piece of recorded music in history has led to a paradox of choice, promoting passive and playlist-driven music consumption and creating winner-take-all effects for the biggest artists.
Yash Bagal • A New Funnel for Music
My observations about media since 2015:
- If you’re B2C, you’re in the hits business. If you’re in B2B, you’re in the insights business.
- Advertising is a bad business model unless you’re a platform. But it’s a necessary business model to prevent information inequality.... See more
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