Pandora folks : do you think Spotify should adquire you at the current price tag ? 1.3B
What title says
I’m still curious if Spotify will actually thrive. Music loyalty is absurd
If they can get away without paying mechanical rights they will. http://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/spotify-questions-whether-mechanical-royalties-are-even-due-on-a-stream/
RIP
What would be the point? I guess one of users, data, or radio product? I’ve only used Spotify’s radio product a few times, do you think Pandora’s is better?
Probably not a good move, unfortunately we're in the same boat, music on its own is not a sustainable business
Does Spotify make money from free users? Why is it still losing hundreds of millions even though revenues are growing?
Of course - via the shitton of advertising
I don’t think they turn that to profit though. I’m sure their RPM are too low to cover the royalties for the content.
Profit is what’s important in the end for a business. Before going with direct deals and on demand product pandora was making enough money out of advertising to make profits. Spotify on the other hand seems to need people to subscribe. Their free tier is bleeding money.
I'd assume they'd be much more valuable to a company without a music streaming product (Microsoft? Snap?) than us.
It's still 70M MAU
70M MAU with a large overlap of Spotify's US MAU. It would be mainly a aquihire for Spotify with some upside in the tech and sales ad space. That's probably worth 100M max, especially Pacific time based