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-Ownership and portability of data: Next-generation platforms have already begun shifting to more data-portable models. Substack, for example, gives writers total ownership over their audiences and allows them to take their email list of subscribers with them if they ever decide to leave the platform; furthermore, writers use their own Stripe accou... See more
Katie Parrott • Legitimacy Lost
Merry Xmas Everybody is Noddy Holder’s pension fund, earning him an estimated £500,000 a year in royalties. Half a million a year every year for five decades based on one night’s work writing a three and a half minute tune, and a day pretending it’s December in a sweaty New York studio in the height of summer.
John Lamerton • Evergreen Assets: The "Do The Work Once, Reap the Rewards Again and Again (and Again!)" Content Marketing Ecosystem
A Substack newsletter is both a product and a portfolio: a way to make money, but also a venue for displaying personality, intelligence, and taste.
Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
TikTok and other social platforms are acting as potent top-of-funnel discovery channels for emerging music creators. ConvertKit’s acquisition of Fanbridge could help these newly discovered music creators re-engage fans. And recent developments around NFTs powered by platforms like Audius and Ditto Music could offer substantial and reliable monetiza... See more
Yash Bagal • A New Funnel for Music
Journalism, Subscriptions, and Podcasting with Li Jin and Nathan Baschez
podcasts.apple.comSpotify: "A first mover in streaming, therefore a first mover in gathering data -- something you can't replicate. It can also scale across the Android population, which in the U.S. is twice the size of iOS."
Sam Blake • Spotify Earnings: The Music Streaming War Is Heating Up
That’s why I loved her decision to pull out of Spotify. Taylor Swift is not some sort of Luddite futilely standing against the forces of modernity; rather, she is a highly differentiated content creator capturing the immense value she is creating instead of ceding it to an aggregator that treats every piece of content the same.
Ben Thompson • Differentiation and Value Capture in the Internet Age
