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Senra: Spotify added 2M subscribers during Joe Rogan controversy
“And then his subscriber count over the few weeks went up. He added two million new subscribers”
Bloom: Only 2% of Spotify artists earn over $1,000 annually
“Only two percent of Spotify artists are earning more than 1000 dollars a year, and one 10th of one percent.1%, are earning over a hundred K per year.”
Spotify indexes podcast episode descriptions, but Apple Podcasts only indexes titles
“Spotify will index your summary of your description of the episode, but Apple only indexes the title.”
Bloom: Spotify's per-stream artist payout is far lower than Tidal's
“When you look at Spotify relative to other music streaming platforms, they are way lower than others, way lower than Tidal and some of the other players in terms of the average payout per 1000 streams for the artists.”
Senra: AI translation platforms will automatically localize podcast audio by language
“If you look at what 11 Labs is doing, what Spotify is doing, what YouTube's doing, My calculation was way off because it's not just English speaking people at the platform level. They're going to, you're going to be in Brazil. You're going to love founders. It…”