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Spotify May Already Be Too Big for the Labels to Stop it Competing With Them

Mark Mulligan

26 Oct 2018

Spotify’s Daniel Ek is betting big on developing a ‘two sided marketplace’ for music . With the company’s market cap on a downward trend despite strong growth metrics , Ek might find himself having to play up the disruption narrative more boldly and more quickly than he’d planned.

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Spotify, DistroKid and the Two Sided Marketplace

Mark Mulligan

17 Oct 2018

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Spotify has taken a minority stake in DistroKid . In itself, it may be a slightly left field but relatively insignificant move, except that it is in fact one small but important step on a much bigger journey.

Spotify’s New Rules of Engagement

Mark Mulligan

12 Jun 2018

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It is easy to feel that the pervasive obsession with Spotify overplays its importance to the recorded music industry. On the one hand it may only represent 27% of global recorded music revenues, but this compares to a peak of around 10% that Apple enjoyed at the peak of the iTunes Music Store.

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Spotify and the Music Industry: Who Needs Who More?

Zach Fuller

6 Apr 2018

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Following Spotify’s DPO earlier this week, much of the financial commentary around the listing emphasised the company’s loss-making status. Those familiar with Spotify’s business model know this is attributable to the sizeable fees the company pays out to rights holders—the gatekeepers to th...

This Is What Post-IPO Life Will Look Like For Spotify

Mark Mulligan

17 Nov 2017

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With a fair wind, Spotify’s long-anticipated public offering should happen before the end of Q2 2018 (and yes, probably a direct listing rather than an IPO but 'IPO' worked better in the title!) . The music industry will be watching with keen interest as it is going to be the bellwether for the st...

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