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podcasts.apple.comAnd so what you've ended up with, not surprisingly, is a few key players that happen to own the majority of the IP that is kind of a must have in this industry to have a product offering and a handful of distributors that have gotten scale on distribution of great user experiences like a Spotify, Amazon, a YouTube, whoever you might want to think a... See more
Colossus • Universal Music Group: The Gatekeepers of Music
While musicians faced an existential crisis during a pandemic, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek’s ownership stake in Spotify climbed to be worth over $4 billion. In order to earn $4 billion, a musician earning the median wage of $25,000 would have to work for 160,000 years – in other words, they’d have to have started working before human history began.
Austin Robey • Ways to improve the ownership economy — Mirror
Netflix and the Conservation of Attractive Profits - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
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Our backlist brings in about a third of our annual revenues, so $300 million a year roughly, a little less.
— Michael Pietsch, CEO, Hachette
Elle Griffin • No One Buys Books
We all know about Netflix, we all know about Spotify and other media categories, and we also know what it has done to some industries... The music industry has lost, in the digital transformation, approximately 50 percent of its overall revenue pool.
— Markus Dohle, CEO, Penguin Publishing House
Elle Griffin • No One Buys Books
Sony avoids F2P as its live service model takes shape | Opinion
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