Although the idea was appealing, the business model was not designed to be sustainable from the onset. This leads me to still doubt the management's ability to turn it around in the long term, despite ...

The post Spotify’s New Royalty Model Will Focus on “Legitimate” Artists Who Meet Certain Thresholds appeared first on Consequence. Spotify has announced some big changes in their royalty payout model ...

Recently a client told me that they were adopting the Spotify Model. Which sounded great at first. Spotify has published some great articles and videos about how they have grown and transformed their ...

Spotify’s agile model has been very effective for Spotify; however, using it blindly for your own company may not be the best approach, unless you are a Swedish streaming company, founded in 2006.

After much speculation on what Spotify’s updated payment model would actually look like, the streaming giant finally released a comprehensive breakdown in a blog post late last month. Although the ...

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Spotify has both free and paid subscription plans, so the invite-only model will not be the standard for long. Yet, this approach will likely build more word-of-mouth publicity and add to Spotify's ...

Spotify is haemorrhaging artists. In the last few months alone, a handful of indie bands have exited the streaming platform.

Spotify might be making a major change to how it makes money. Until now the music platform has relied on an ad-based freemium model to deliver the best features of Pandora and Apple's ...