Maybe the golden age* of music subscription services is ending, following in the footsteps of these services for video:
- A startup negotiates contracts with most/all content providers
- said startup becomes a sensation
- Google, Apple & Amazon enter the market, signing similar deals
- Content providers realize the value of their material and negotiations become more complicated
- The services want need differentiation and it can't be price because they all have more or less the same lower bound of licensing costs
- The startup's contracts are up for renewal. They don't have the financial background of Apple/Google/Amazon and loose a few contracts
- There are now 5-10 services and each one has some exclusive content, overlap in the libraries keeps shrinking
- I go back to bit torrent because 10$/mo is already more per year than I paid for music in the first 25 years of my life total.
* length: about 3 years or as it's commonly called "A good Netflix"
- A startup negotiates contracts with most/all content providers
- said startup becomes a sensation
- Google, Apple & Amazon enter the market, signing similar deals
- Content providers realize the value of their material and negotiations become more complicated
- The services want need differentiation and it can't be price because they all have more or less the same lower bound of licensing costs
- The startup's contracts are up for renewal. They don't have the financial background of Apple/Google/Amazon and loose a few contracts
- There are now 5-10 services and each one has some exclusive content, overlap in the libraries keeps shrinking
- I go back to bit torrent because 10$/mo is already more per year than I paid for music in the first 25 years of my life total.
* length: about 3 years or as it's commonly called "A good Netflix"