Content can cost nothing, if you're talking a podcast made in your bedroom. You get fleeced when putting it on streaming services though, as far as I know there is no free way of getting your stuff on Spotify, as you need to pay an aggregator (a middleman rent seeker that we don't complain about enough) to do so.
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From a certain angle even that perspective is a little bit unfair because you can invest a massive amount of your very valuable time into a project that only technically has a zero dollar production cost on paper.
If you chose to produce a podcast instead of working towards a promotion at your job, your opportunity cost could be quite high even though it’s not reflected anywhere. Nowhere besides the high quality of your show.
Absolutely, I've got music on Spotify and well aware of the costs of mixing and mastering, as well as the sacrifice you make in terms of playing poorly paid gigs, and the opportunity cost just by creating music.
The Spotify CEOs take is so far out when you consider that if just super budget content was on the platform, people wouldn't use it or at least wouldn't pay for it.
Good on you for putting goodness out in the world!
Thank you!
Also, nice Primal Scream spotlight.
Well don't just tweet. Put those fingers to frets and show us how little it really costs you fucken igit.
Every picture of Daniel Ek looks like an evil henchman thinking he's about to deliver good news to his boss, with the stinger being the boss is about tell him that he has completely fucked up.
Oshit TIL I only spent money on my album because I'm a dumbass. If I were smart and produced it for free, I could have a whole $10 of net Spotify revenue.
“… what are we creating now that will still be valued and discussed hundreds or thousands of years from today?”
Well, there’s very little chance of memorable art to come into existence if artists are not paid fairly. Art takes time and effort, even for geniuses. If someone’s worried about becoming homeless or whatever, they’re not going to focus on their craft at the expense of health and safety, and even if they do what they produce will be suboptimal or unfocused.
So what’s the fair value of such things? I suppose there’s a number of ways to determine that, but it doesn’t matter if the platform that’s hosting an artist is not acting in good faith nor practicing fairness. Really, there should be an open source version of Spotify.
I wonder how this pest values his own labor
Seems like every time I look at internet companies the first thing that comes to mind is why is the labor not forming a collective?
If the artists owned the distribution via a artists collective at least the profits would be split up in some more fair fashion.
Same with food delivery.
Same with Video production and delivery (peer to peer with each creator adding a node if you want to go that route).
Same with car driving services
and so on.
Edit: i never thought that I would get a downvote on lemmy for suggesting maximum money and ownership in a product by the authors but here we are, lol!
Idk how to tell you that lemmy proooobably isn’t all humans who have reasonable opinions at this point
I'm starting to look for alternatives. Do y'all have any recommendations? I'm looking into Deezer, but was wondering if there were better more artist friendly services?
bandcamp is one of the better ones for artists.