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Business Model Leverage
This behaviour has been greatly exacerbated by the advent of a new and even more disruptive digital music technology: on-demand streaming. While iTunes was technically innovative, its business model was not.
Matthew Ball • How Technology Shapes Content and Business Models (Or Audio’s Opportunity and Who Will Capture It) — MatthewBall.co
Phil Carter on LinkedIn: One challenge every consumer subscription business faces is the difficulty…
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All of this is critical context for understanding Spotify’s strong interest in the podcasting space. Spotify needs (1) a way to differentiate its service from Apple Music in particular, and (2) content that it does not have to pay for on a marginal cost basis.
Ben Thompson • Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play
He understood that physical distribution was going away, that digital license strategies needed to change. He shared his view back then that Pandora should be incentivized to build a subscription business, Spotify to enter the radio space, new entrants to have an advantage in the beginning, and much more international access to digital content. The... See more