YouTube Royalty Increase
Oddly enough, I am seeing an increase in royalties from YouTube in my various writing and publishing catalogs. Which makes me highly suspicious.
Category: Streaming
Streaming Propaganda
The propaganda that streaming can reach critical mass and bring money back to stabilization, then return it to its prior size, is absolutely false. Simple math can expose that. Streaming will never be able to pay the equivalent of recorded music’s mechanical, artist, or producer royalties. Nor will be able to be on par with…
The Writing Level Sucks.
Worse than Google, YouTube, Spotify, piracy, radio, payola, monopoly, Pandora, and my cousin Maria, is the fact that the art of writing hit songs has been gone for generations, with the exception of a select few. There’s one of your biggest problems. The writing level sucks. Sucks really bad. Sucks the chrome off a trailer…
Eating Their Tail
So radio’s numbers are down, hence advertising revenue (our old friend adrev) is down. “Promotions” help replace some of that lost income (opposite of label issues). Then they are fed weekly, like junkies, they get hooked. I’m talking thousands of dollars per station per week per song. They then have to play marginal music, which…
Spotify IPO Launches by Spring
My guess would be the Spotify IPO launches by spring. You can feel the ramp up and the powers that be are far too smart for to wait for the current tech bubble to burst. Those of you affiliated with major labels should start to see the propaganda, requests for “playlists” etc., start to heat…
Size of The Game
So you know the size of the game. Pandora Market cap: 3.53 billion dollars Income: minus 31.60 million dollars Sales: 789.80 million dollars Google Market cap: 336.59 billion dollars Sales: 67.91 billion
Watch This Bouncing Ball
Open up the checkbook, pay whatever you need to crank a song. Promotion is billed back to the artist. The song becomes a hit, let’s say sells 1-2 mm. 750 – 1.5 million in revenue. Artist is more than likely unrecouped anyway. So just mechanicals have to be doled out. Then, because the song…
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