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Now given that burgers cost us money to produce, wouldn’t you rather have a podcast?
Does this whole thing not seem insane to anyone else?
Now given that burgers cost us money to produce, wouldn’t you rather have a podcast?
Does this whole thing not seem insane to anyone else?
Serving music is unprofitable for Spotify. They collect your monthly subscription fee, then every additional song play makes Spotify lose money. They don't want to have zero song plays since then nobody would subscribe, but their goal is sell the profitable thing (subscriptions) while minimizing the unprofitable thing (song plays).
If that's the case, how do you explain those two features : - the repeat button - the "automatically play similar songs" option
In the first case, since I don't know how it works, maybe they have to pay only one time for a song per user listening to it during a period (say a month). But I doubt it. In the second case, it's Spotify explicitly saying : "here are songs you don't intended to play but that we picked automatically and are playing to you".
If you look at Netflix, sure they have the feature that automatically launch the next episode. Or they try weird stuff like live or play anything... But they also have the "Are you still watching ?" feature, to make sure that they don't display content to an empty room. Spotify doesn't have that, it can just play songs indefinitely without any human interaction.
So, I don't know.
The buffets may be the closest and they don’t really seem to care at all, because the price differential is so high.
So Spotify is likely undercharging by 50% or more.
To me, Spotify seems to be using podcasts in a similar way. I assume it's because the central business model is unsustainable when combined with investor pressure; they can't just focus on core product because they're burning too much of other people's money in an attempt to outcompete everyone else