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Maybe a stupid question. Why isn’t there any gatekeeper from the EU region? They are quite industrialized and have a strong economy.

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Shouldn’t Spotify at least be a gatekeeper? Can I publish a song on Spotify and ask listeners to donate to me directly or have a link to buy my merchandise?

Yes, actually you can. As an artist on Spotify you can add a PayPal donation link directly in your artist profile, and you can integrate Shopify merch directly as well.

https://spotify.link/kfll23o7LHb

Even linking specific products with specific releases. I only wish they supported more vendors than Shopify. But they state the feature is currently in beta.

Thanks. So there’s a different set of market behavior the US market and customers are not used to.

I am not seeing any of those links. Admittedly, they can at least have external links to their social media sites where they can establish a direct relationship with their listeners.

From details elsewhere [0], Dutch company booking.com could be added.

There are probably more that did not make the first round:

Spotify - Sweden

OLX - Netherlands

Ryanair - Ireland

Are some possibilities for the next round.

[0] https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/the-digital-markets-act-i...

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