• @General_Effort
    link
    English
    510 months ago

    That figure is potentially misleading. You want to know how much of your subscription or ad revenue is paid out. The per stream royalty is diluted by non-paying users, or by users paying lower rates (in poorer countries, etc). If you move your subscription to a service that pays out a lower share, then you pay musicians less, even if the average payout per stream is higher.

    • @KoalaUnknown
      link
      English
      210 months ago

      If ads don’t make enough money to pay artists, then Spotify shouldn’t offer a free tier. Don’t support a company that is hurting artists.

      • @General_Effort
        link
        English
        110 months ago

        This is the kind of thinking that usually gets mocked on lemmy.