So I did some more work on my paper dolls for the Remora video. Drew three out of five, still have to scan them in, color them, & cut them out & then find out if my camera can do what I want for the video.
So there’s this thing going on with Spotify where a bunch of metal labels (Metal Blade, Century Media, etc.) have pulled their content off the service. I find it interesting. Spotify has a business model that is somewhat unfair to the people who provide the content they make money off of, which I guess really is just saying it’s an internet based business. The reason that Spotify scares me is Silber’s digital sales have almost cut in half since they launched in the USA. Unfortunately this seems to be regardless of if the content is available on Spotify or not. It’s just a thing that inspires people to not pay for music.
I finally finished the rough draft of XO #10. Meanwhile I realize issue #8 isn’t even out yet.
I got an email from Kimberlee Traub & Worms #7 should be out in early 2012. Looking forward to it.
if it doesn’t cost the label/artist anything to be on it, i would see Spotify as free promo (i guess cdbaby puts you on there as part of their deal, not sure how working direct works out).
Although I imagine at a certain level the artist becomes promo for Spotify as opposed to the other way around.
also i gu ess i don’t know how spotify works either, is it just online radio like pandora? or do you get to download the songs for a subscription fee?
On Spotify you get to listen to any song you want with no subscription fee. I haven’t heard an explanation of why anyone would get their pay service & in most countries about 5% of people use the pay service.
As far as it being free promo, it would be free promo if people came to your music through it instead of going to it for your music.
well i imagine it’s supposed to work that way, like last fm or whatever. where hey i like Metallica so it’ll suggest i listen to Megadeth. So i’m sure people will go for metallica and megadeth and maybe hear some other horrible metal band from the midwest as a result potentially. so possibly promo if it works that way but from what i gather, it’s one of the weaker points of the app.
anyways, i was reading this article about this and it made a good point that the major labels have big shares in spotify so they don’t really care about the streaming revenue since they’re making profit from the ad & subscription revenue anyways. win win for them.
I hear there’s some kind of thing on it where you can check out what your friends are listening to that’s supposed to be “fun.” Yeah, the labels owning Spotify is probably the real reason Apple hasn’t bought it & closed it down yet.
It’s in their interest to make the company look successful even though it’s not so that their shares skyrocket. Explains why there’s been so much media support for it.
Yeah, it’s like Second Life. Why was that shit on the news all the time when even at my level of geekery I never met anyone that had an account they used more than the one time to find out the thing was kinda lame?