Sam Duboff

Well, I appreciate that. The music industry is so confusing. I worked at Spotify a little over six years and I learned something new every day. Yeah. It's like... famously opaque industry. So we're trying to play our part in being as transparent as we can. And it's hard being an artist.

Well, I appreciate that. The music industry is so confusing. I worked at Spotify a little over six years and I learned something new every day. Yeah. It's like... famously opaque industry. So we're trying to play our part in being as transparent as we can. And it's hard being an artist.

Yeah. So my team's working on building all the products and features for the music industry. So Spotify for Artists is, you know, your listeners probably use Spotify as a consumer. The other side of the coin is Spotify for Artists, which pretty much every artist manager or person who works at a label uses over a million people use it every month.

Yeah. So my team's working on building all the products and features for the music industry. So Spotify for Artists is, you know, your listeners probably use Spotify as a consumer. The other side of the coin is Spotify for Artists, which pretty much every artist manager or person who works at a label uses over a million people use it every month.

And it's the way artists can access how their music appears on Spotify. So my team's working on building all those products, you know, video features, promotional features, analytics, as well as all the education for artists in the industry. We publish a lot of uh, videos, blogs, uh, you know, live streams, trying to explain how Spotify works, how the music industry works.

And it's the way artists can access how their music appears on Spotify. So my team's working on building all those products, you know, video features, promotional features, analytics, as well as all the education for artists in the industry. We publish a lot of uh, videos, blogs, uh, you know, live streams, trying to explain how Spotify works, how the music industry works.

My team's living and breathing, uh, everything artists are asking us about, um, through our help center on social 24 seven. We try to put together, you know, materials to help them understand it better.

My team's living and breathing, uh, everything artists are asking us about, um, through our help center on social 24 seven. We try to put together, you know, materials to help them understand it better.

That's right.

That's right.

Yeah. What I'll add for Spotify is for us, because of some of those rules, we don't let you upgrade to premium through the app. Yeah. So it's a missed revenue opportunity. Right. The more people we get to sign up for premium, the more money that's going to music rights holders, the more we're growing the music industry for us, because, you know, two of our.

Yeah. What I'll add for Spotify is for us, because of some of those rules, we don't let you upgrade to premium through the app. Yeah. So it's a missed revenue opportunity. Right. The more people we get to sign up for premium, the more money that's going to music rights holders, the more we're growing the music industry for us, because, you know, two of our.

three biggest competitors also have an app store, have a phone ecosystem. For them, they can upsell in all different ways they want to get people to sign up for the service. For us, since we don't have our own phone hardware, we can't promote upgrading to premium in a bunch of different ways in the app and in ways that would help

three biggest competitors also have an app store, have a phone ecosystem. For them, they can upsell in all different ways they want to get people to sign up for the service. For us, since we don't have our own phone hardware, we can't promote upgrading to premium in a bunch of different ways in the app and in ways that would help

People upgrade to subscribe, more money for the music industry, for artists, for songwriters, growing it all around. And so, yeah, for us, it's really that missed opportunity. It's not that any of your Spotify premium money is going to the app store. It's that we're missing out on people that we could kind of help to upgrade because of those rules.

People upgrade to subscribe, more money for the music industry, for artists, for songwriters, growing it all around. And so, yeah, for us, it's really that missed opportunity. It's not that any of your Spotify premium money is going to the app store. It's that we're missing out on people that we could kind of help to upgrade because of those rules.

And our competitors are able to put as much upsell as they want.

And our competitors are able to put as much upsell as they want.

Yeah, yeah. I think there's all these, you know, phones and the App Store and this whole app economy developed so fast that a lot of the rules and regulations haven't kept up. And, you know, for something like the 30% App Store tax, that's leading to higher prices to consumers because the app developers have to raise prices to accommodate it.

Yeah, yeah. I think there's all these, you know, phones and the App Store and this whole app economy developed so fast that a lot of the rules and regulations haven't kept up. And, you know, for something like the 30% App Store tax, that's leading to higher prices to consumers because the app developers have to raise prices to accommodate it.