Comments on: Analyst: Streaming music may already be hitting a ceiling http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/20/analyst-streaming-music-may-already-be-hitting-a-ceiling/ The economics of digital content Wed, 22 May 2013 08:14:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike Timothy http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/20/analyst-streaming-music-may-already-be-hitting-a-ceiling/#comment-160341 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:31:31 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218029#comment-160341 Carriers have been really clamping down on heavy bandwidth users so the streaming model is facing an uphill battle if they think they can reach most handhelds. I’m a music junkie and I love owning the music I listen to. Audiogalaxy offers home library streaming. All of my music resides on my external HDD and streams directly to my iphone. It’s a beautiful thing. Especially since there’s a bunch of music I own that streaming sites don’t offer not to mention I’m lucky enough to be on an unlimited plan (for now). However, everyone is different in their listening habits. To each his own…

]]> By: nypbbob http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/20/analyst-streaming-music-may-already-be-hitting-a-ceiling/#comment-158958 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:38:58 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218029#comment-158958 Funny, while people are trying to lower royalty rates Rumor has it Funn Networks will be paying $0.02 to $0.04 per stream and ten times more per music video than You Tube and Vevo pays.. Its gonna get interesting………………………….

]]> By: Marat Ryndin http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/20/analyst-streaming-music-may-already-be-hitting-a-ceiling/#comment-156587 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:33:36 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218029#comment-156587 Very well said. Pretty much the same point I just made. I think most people just still either haven’t discovered these services or are a little slow to change their mindset. I’m a bit of an early adopter, so downloading / owning music is dead to me now.

]]> By: Marat Ryndin http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/20/analyst-streaming-music-may-already-be-hitting-a-ceiling/#comment-156565 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:57:33 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218029#comment-156565 I don’t see this as a problem. You probably pay for cable TV and you don’t get to keep any of the shows either.

The price of these music subscription services is very low for what you get out of them. I love having the equivalent of iTunes with every song available to play anytime, anywhere. I don’t need to keep any of it and clog up my hard drive. Statistically most people who download a lot of music don’t listen to it enough to justify it taking up a lot of space on their hard drives.

]]> By: mitchell feldstein http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/20/analyst-streaming-music-may-already-be-hitting-a-ceiling/#comment-154673 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:44:22 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218029#comment-154673 i subscribe to spotify……i find for someone like myself who is constantly studying new music and retracting old…..spotify presents a value…..i can listen to a new record hit or miss….there are certain artists whose new music i will always buy when it is released but they are only a handful…….

]]> By: Kevin Horne http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/20/analyst-streaming-music-may-already-be-hitting-a-ceiling/#comment-154663 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:20:18 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218029#comment-154663 “simply” ????

]]> By: spotmagicsolis http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/20/analyst-streaming-music-may-already-be-hitting-a-ceiling/#comment-154586 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 21:50:55 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218029#comment-154586 For the weaker, “me too” services, you are totally correct! Without a barrier to entry, Apple will crush it. There will have to be a total solution platform that does it all in order to stave off the Monsters of Music services on the Net; Apple, Spotify, Rdio, and the tens of dozens of others who throw up a Web site.

]]> By: spotmagicsolis http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/20/analyst-streaming-music-may-already-be-hitting-a-ceiling/#comment-154583 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 21:43:08 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218029#comment-154583 Great news for real radio.

]]> By: Scott Pannier http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/20/analyst-streaming-music-may-already-be-hitting-a-ceiling/#comment-153871 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:58:44 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218029#comment-153871 It is an interesting conversation indeed, the sustainability of Internet Radio / streaming services. If I’m not mistaken, Apple has announced that they’ll be coming out with a Pandora-esque (or Spotify-esque) service within the next 6 months. I am trying to work with music sites and offer them ad/revenue opportunities on a value-exchange basis. Music sites should allow users to listen to any song as long as they watch a video ad and maybe interact with the ad (sweepstakes entry, join an email list). @RadioMogul I am going to reach out to you. The company is Volume11, http://www.v11media.com – Thank you for the article PaidContent.

]]> By: Muddy Mudskipper http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/20/analyst-streaming-music-may-already-be-hitting-a-ceiling/#comment-153659 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:30:31 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218029#comment-153659 The fact that Spotify continues to offer unlimited streaming for free on its desktop application seems to be a major factor in my mind. The only advantage that the subscription offers most folks is access on their phones (enhanced fidelity appeals to a fairly limited group), and I think many are willing to forgo that as long as they get the free access on their desktop/laptop. I’d be curious to see what happened it Spotify limited that access to 10 or 20 songs a month – would it spur more folks to subscribe. I suspect it would, and I believe that is the direction they will eventually go.

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