Spotify Looked to Ban White Noise Podcasts to Become More Profitable
www.bloomberg.com
An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform
  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    My understanding was Spotify pays by the stream. Not out of some pool that is distributed based off a percentage of time spent listening compared to everything they have.

    From the article…

    Universal Music Group’s CEO Lucian Grainge and Warner Music’s CEO Robert Kyncl have both voiced their displeasure at the fact that songs filled with noise are paid out of the same royalty pool shared by their superstars.

    • MyFairJulia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I wanna ask Spotify the same question i wanna ask media companies about region locking because of copyright shenanigans:

      Why do you make your system to my problem?