music industry
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 8, 2021 by Benedict Evans · across every show →
Everything said about music industry, oldest first
Nov 8, 2021 neutral
Evans: The entire global recorded music industry is a tech rounding error
“The entire global recorded music industry is what, 16, seventeen billion dollars. Global online advertising is three hundred billion dollars. You know, Apple has, what, a hundred and fifty billion dollars of cash? Like, music is just a rounding error for the t…”
Feb 16, 2024 neutral
Evans: Flat-rate subscriptions cap high-spending whales, failing in books
“With all of these subscription models, you're capping your whales. So with music, you had a small number of people who were paying a hundred dollars a month or more, whatever it was, and now they can only, for CDs, now they can get everything for 10 dollars a …”