“If you want to find out what Spotify is going to do … look for a big consumer need and a big creator need,” Daniel Ek tells Billboard.
, among others) was aimed at optimizing the listener experience and amplifying artistic voices on the platform. As Ek directly told creators watching the global livestream: “Spotify is open for business.”
I mean, there are so many aspects of this that probably won’t get the spotlight. As an example, and Gustav mentioned this on stage, we’ve kind of rebuilt. We’re known for our Discovery platform, and for how good we are at machine-learning and AI and recommending new stuff. But we’ve actually, underneath the surface, redone that entire system, and meantime, our designers have obviously been tinkering around with the best way of promoting content the best way for discovering content.
Absolutely. You’re 100%, right, it’s about looking towards younger consumers for inspiration. And I’m a firm believer in the [William Gibson] quote, “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” A bit of both. I think everyone who says that they’re not inspired by anything that’s going on around them, it’s complete bullshit, to be honest. So I mean, I’ve played around with everything — I play around with the Voice apps, where you can Auto-tune yourself to sound really good. We take inspiration from all of that, of course.
Yeah, it’s exactly right. I call the concept “nutritious versus delicious.” I feel like everyone’s trying to go towards shorter, shorter, shorter-form content, more bite-sized. And then we have this counter-movement with podcasts, where someone’s willing to listen to two hours of someone going super deep on a very slim topic as well. We obviously want to allow creators to create whatever way they want to do, but out of the two extremes, we’re definitely more in the latter camp.
I talked about onstage the notion that even the 50,000th most-streamed artist, which is kind of far down the list, is still making probably $50,000 across not just Spotify, but across all the other recorded music sources. And if you add touring, if you add all the other stuff, that’s probably a full time musician. It’s a very different music industry today. So I see the tension — and obviously, you’re right, on the long tail of things, it means some people won’t get that attention.
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