Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing

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40 Hadiths

#Mobile Apps #Religion #Web Search 1176 social mentions

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Privacy.com

I think https://privacy.com is close to that. You get a virtual credit card number for every single service that you sign up for, and you can simply disable them in a centralized place. It works on the web but it is still a hassle to use on mobile. I imagine Apple can potentially do this using Apple Card, but I don't think this is going to happen any time soon.

#Online Payments #Payment Platform #Recurring Billing 1010 social mentions

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Loud & Clear by Spotify

> This is where I shrug my shoulders and say "Why not [blame] both?" I've yet to see any of these discussions to blame both. And your own comment literally never mentions the Big Three. > can all be screwing over creators in conjunction with their publishers. I prefer not to wade in to conspiracy territory. Apple may have power over the industry, but they are an outlier. The rest do whatever the industry tels them to. Quote, [1]. Emphasis mine --- start quote --- Spotify primarily makes money for music from two sources — from Spotify Premium subscribers as well as from advertisers on Spotify’s free tier. <i>Roughly ⅔ of this money is paid out to music rights holders.</i> --- end quote --- Guess who are the rights holders. They get 60-65% percent of Spotify's <i>revenue</i> (not profit). Care to ask <i>them</i> where this money goes? No one ever dares to. > That said, not all musicians on Spotify go through publishers. It's either publishers or indie aggregators (two or three of them). Spotify doesn't pay artists directly. If it tried to do that, the big publishers would immediately pull their catalogs. And the vast majority of popular music on the platform is likely to come from big publishers, not from indie aggregators. [1] https://loudandclear.byspotify.com/?question=how-do-artists-get-paid.

#Music #Spotify #Video Streaming 21 social mentions