techcrunch.com — Big Music Doesn’t Like Streaming Music -- Online streaming music startups are in one very sorry place. On demand streaming rates range from .4 cents to 1 cent per stream - this is what the startups pay to the labels every time they play a song for a user...
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findetonMar 29, 2009
Nonsense? You are the one writting nonsense FelixDeluxe. So it costs more to come and play at a concert to 50,000 people than what they get from the concert? Let's see, $50 per person and 50,000 people makes 2.5million dollars. Let's assume they just get 10% of it: So you're telling me it costs more than 250,000 dollars to come to Spain and stay for a week? who's writting nonsense now?
jamesrivers11Mar 29, 2009
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rebelcontentMar 29, 2009
"streaming music startups don?t want more people using their service, because they lose money from every one of them..."And yet, they once focused on amassing users and just a year ago engaged in competitive boasting about who had 20, 25, 30 million. Notice that those tickers with user counts have been turned off or have disappeared. Ultimately the numbers were meaningless where they needed to count most-with advertisers. The model for advertising-based interactive streaming depends on an unrealistically high CPM that the market doesn't support. It's math. They should have done it before they launched products that they had to go back and make deals to support.I don't think the future of online streaming that effectively promotes music and artists is dead. Just these companies are. They'll be replaced with ones who figure out how to actually run a business that makes a profit.
Closed AccountMar 29, 2009
f**k the RIAA
arthursucksMar 29, 2009
Bandcamp.com whips iTunes ass.Artist gets paid directly, customer can stream the entire album before purchase, and no s**tty RIAA executives to get in the way.
writieMar 29, 2009
If the value isn't there, why would people stream it?
writieMar 29, 2009
Who said the indie labels want the deal either?
Closed AccountMar 30, 2009
A bit of a "whoosh" there, objektiv1.I also like how you say "started" to take money from gigs and merch. I loled.
findetonMar 30, 2009
FelixDeluxe Everyone starts from scrap. Everyone starts playing at clubs and pubs. The Beatles started that way, so did The Ramones, so did steve Ray Vaughan, so did The Clash, so did everyone. First you play for 10 people, then for 40, then for 100 then it's 1000 and so on.