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A Bungling Bundle: Spotify Short-Changes Songwriters for Minimal Gain (Guest Column)
Spotify's audiobook bundling strategy cheats songwriters for little gain, explains Jordan Bromley and Trent Smith in a new guest column on the move.
You’ve most likely heard by now the news that Spotify, through a surprising bundling maneuver, has unilaterally decided to give songwriters a substantial pay cut. As part of our ongoing efforts to provide the songwriting community with data and details related to this incredibly important income stream — which at this point must feel like a continual moving target — we have reviewed and analyzed Spotify’s reporting for the first month where they instituted this change (March), and compared it with the month prior (February). This audiobook bundling maneuver, which affects 100% of all musical content on its service, reflects less than a 1% cost savings for the tech behemoth.
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