Comment on "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?
UnD3Rgr0uNDCL0wN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Its annoying for artists too. They pay a great deal to get on these services and then get told they need to pay for promotion for listeners like yourself to discover their work. Spotify at this stage is just a way to siphon money out of people. Nobody wins.
Nexpo and Barely Sociable from Youtube were talking about this on socials a while back. Dont be angry with the artists, be angry with models like spotify who then pay £10 for a million plays.
Pontishmonti@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s an odd take. You are conflating completely different things. It costs close to nothing for artists to get their music on Spotify ($25 a year for several releases if I remember correctly). There is no promise from Spotify that they will guarantee discoverability. Tens of millions of releases are uploaded to Spotify annually, how do you surface that to users? Paying for promotions is ads. Artists (or their labels) are fully responsible for buying ads. They are advertisers. They spend money because they want to become more popular. Users, on the other hand, buy a paid product. When they become the product it’s not by choice and it’s not because that improves user’s experience.