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Daniel Ek

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

So obviously on the one hand, if you deal with a lot of licensed content,

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

and um you know in this case from some major labels and obviously a lot of indies as well but still relatively supply constrained from from some big ones the natural tendencies for you to think well this is much better because all of a sudden you have this sort of much wider scope of different creators that matters it's great uh you can aggregate a fragmented market yeah you you can

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

do the aggregation theory.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

That's all good and great.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

We don't really contemplate all that much.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

It's obviously, there's other challenges for that business model.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

Moderation all of a sudden becomes a massive thing.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

You have to build an actual ad network that probably then scales.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

So in theory, yes, you're right.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

You may have an opportunity to gain revenue

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

more margin over time in this model.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

But fundamentally, you have to do many more steps along the way.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

We don't have to contemplate content moderation as much when it comes to music.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

We certainly don't have to have these very elaborate systematic processes about what constitutes speech and violence.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

And we knew that because I'd seen enough of these, obviously, platforms.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

But it is important because if you think about it from a P&L, so on the surface of this, these models are great, right?

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

Because very high gross margins and so on and so forth.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

Great at scale.