Glad to see a fellow Tidal user! Tidal has the cheapest student plan of any app at the moment, and here in the UK Spotify is actually more expensive than Tidal/Apple/etc. on the normal tier too. I think the main problem with Spotify and botting is the existence of the free tier. However, while sites like TH-cam are advanced enough to simply detect and delete fake activity (and any revenue earned from it) before taking action against your account, Spotify decides to take the punitive approach and ban artists immediately. Paid-only streaming apps can somewhat combat it because every bot still needs to be paying in (or valid card info at least for a free trial) so I'd imagine they could just deduct the fraudulent streams and revenue from the artist and ban the bots once detected. In the long term, I'm not sure what'll happen to streaming. I imagine in 50 years, you'll still have some kind of catalogue to listen to every song ever on demand though, just because of the sheer convenience.
Great video. I am doing a new platform. Only local artist and only live videos. I am adding the option to donate directly to each artist and to support I will ask directly donations like Wikipedia does. If it works in my city I may extend it to more cities and creators
As someone that does this method it probably isn’t Spotify. There’s 100s of people doing this by using different distributors and having dozens of accounts and just generating a lot of music. Doesn’t take a lot and makes a decent amount of money
@@jebo Ive had a few songs stay in spotify curated playlists pretty regularly yeah. And the reason its filled with only ai music is because thats how the algorithm works its going to group similar songs together and ai makes all songs similar so the algorithm is going to recognize that. Not saying spotify isnt but for the most part they would have no need to bc for the most part itd be hard to earn alot of money from it yes i know some people making 5 figures from it monthly but thats rare. Idk I just feel like spotify isnt smart enough to do that nor would have enough financial incentive to do so
It’s not monthly. It’s annually. If you aren’t getting at least 1000 a streams a year then you really shouldn’t be getting paid anyways. That’s literally $3.
As I said in the video. I believe it was a good idea. But it didn’t actually help drive up the value of streams by any measurable value. People have theorized that that extra money is likely going to the major labels or Spotify’s pocket. Not given back to artists
Glad to see a fellow Tidal user! Tidal has the cheapest student plan of any app at the moment, and here in the UK Spotify is actually more expensive than Tidal/Apple/etc. on the normal tier too.
I think the main problem with Spotify and botting is the existence of the free tier. However, while sites like TH-cam are advanced enough to simply detect and delete fake activity (and any revenue earned from it) before taking action against your account, Spotify decides to take the punitive approach and ban artists immediately.
Paid-only streaming apps can somewhat combat it because every bot still needs to be paying in (or valid card info at least for a free trial) so I'd imagine they could just deduct the fraudulent streams and revenue from the artist and ban the bots once detected.
In the long term, I'm not sure what'll happen to streaming. I imagine in 50 years, you'll still have some kind of catalogue to listen to every song ever on demand though, just because of the sheer convenience.
That is a very good take! The existence of the paywall in other streaming services is very helpful in keeping bots at bay.
This deserves more views! Cheers!
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Good work Jay. Your research is impressive.
Thank you!
Great video. I am doing a new platform. Only local artist and only live videos. I am adding the option to donate directly to each artist and to support I will ask directly donations like Wikipedia does. If it works in my city I may extend it to more cities and creators
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Great insights👌🏼
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Anything online is currently an AI nightmare.
As someone that does this method it probably isn’t Spotify. There’s 100s of people doing this by using different distributors and having dozens of accounts and just generating a lot of music. Doesn’t take a lot and makes a decent amount of money
But are you getting on Spotify curated playlists regularly? And why are the playlists filled with ONLY AI music?
@@jebo Ive had a few songs stay in spotify curated playlists pretty regularly yeah. And the reason its filled with only ai music is because thats how the algorithm works its going to group similar songs together and ai makes all songs similar so the algorithm is going to recognize that. Not saying spotify isnt but for the most part they would have no need to bc for the most part itd be hard to earn alot of money from it yes i know some people making 5 figures from it monthly but thats rare. Idk I just feel like spotify isnt smart enough to do that nor would have enough financial incentive to do so
@@jebo You do have a few fair points in the video but I can say even if spotify is doing it 95% of the ai music is normal people tryna get money
Interesting. Good to know! So I guess that the Spotify playlists are being curated by algorithms, not by real people?
It’s not monthly. It’s annually. If you aren’t getting at least 1000 a streams a year then you really shouldn’t be getting paid anyways. That’s literally $3.
As I said in the video. I believe it was a good idea. But it didn’t actually help drive up the value of streams by any measurable value. People have theorized that that extra money is likely going to the major labels or Spotify’s pocket. Not given back to artists
Thanks for the correction on it being annually instead of monthly
Dude, you love counting other people's money, and overeat conspiracy theories. Just make your music interesting to other people.
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