Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome? — The New Yorker
The great process squeeze: How efficiency bias is choking the music industry
Devon Hansenparacosm.substack.com
Spotify’s main form of compensation is the promise of exposure. Put your music on Spotify and it’s instantly available to 138 million subscribers, a veritable nation-state of potential listeners. But with that promise comes the relinquishing of even more control. Reaching any of those listeners depends primarily on Spotify’s recommendation systems;... See more
Tim Maughan • Platforms, Creative Communities, and the Need for a Radical Reimagining - The Reboot
In other words, streaming is a lot more profitable for all the actual value creators after we bypass these technopolies.
Ted Gioia • If I Ran a Major Record Label...
