Music Streaming

topic on 3 shows · 5 statements across 3 episodes

Acquired WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 20VC

5 statements about Music Streaming, every show

WTF Disclosure
Sarandos: Netflix will not enter the music streaming business
“There's plenty of music out there. It's, you know, and it's kind of, I think it's a very different business model.”
Ted Sarandos Jun 7, 2025 ▶ 57:58 Nikhil Kamath x Netflix Co-CEO, Ted Sarandos | People by WTF | Ep. 10 · Nikhil Kamath
20VC Insight
Shulman: Integrating AI Music Creation with Streaming Creates a Larger Market
“That just shows you that there is a lot of friction, and if there were two worlds of music, I think that would A, be friction for the average consumer, but I actually hope it's much more than just consumption. I hope that, like, there shouldn't be, like, a set…”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 25:35 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ACQUIRED Assertion Supported
Taylor Swift Earned Only $2.4 Million From Streaming in 2017
“Taylor Swift, twenty-seventeen, right before their Reputation tour, we're flashing forward a little bit so like, she's Taylor freaking Swift at this point. Only 2.4 million dollars of her total income from everything she does comes from streaming”
Ben Gilbert Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 1:16:28 Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
ACQUIRED Assertion Supported
U2 Earned Only $600,000 From Streaming Out of $54 Million in 2017
“U-two that same year made fifty four million dollars total, and only 600,000 of it came from streaming.”
Ben Gilbert Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 1:16:52 Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
ACQUIRED Assertion Supported
Streaming Increased Average Music Customer Spend From $45 to $84
“At the peak, in 1999, an average CD buyer spent about 45 dollars per year on CDs. Today, with streaming averaging seven dollars a month, that average spend per customer has gone up to 84 dollars.”
Ben Gilbert Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 2:22:01 Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired

← every entity, every show

Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, thousands of episodes across every show transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.