Why Spotify is losing BILLIONS

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Despite Spotify’s massive popularity and lovable brand, it’s still losing money and struggling to produce a self-sustaining business.

The platform has 551 million users in which 220 million of whom are premium subscribers. This is much higher than its biggest competitor Apple Music which boasts a premium subscriber base of just 88 million.

So, how come with this huge number of paying subscribers and global reach, Spotify just can’t seem to make a profit?

In this episode, we'll learn the fundamental problem with Spotify's business model, its multi-billion dollar investment in podcasting and ads to fight this, and why its tech giant competitors like Apple and Google don't just lower their fees to kill Spotify.

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Video chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Spotify
01:22 How Spotify got started
03:53 Spotify's business model
07:20 Spotify's billion-dollar investment in podcasting
09:13 What's the future of Spotify?
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The problem with Spotify, relative to Netflix, is that Netflix creates original content. But Spotify can’t because it’s music. They should have invested in original content in terms of podcasts but they made a huge mistake by investing in celebrity podcasting. They should invest more on podcasting with micro influencers

hackbyrd
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I was using spotify for years, but i watch i alot of YouTube so decided to get YouTube Premium and use YouTube music instead.

Simon_Gray
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spotify ruined their app by removing lyrics for non-premium users

varunrajesh
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Spotify should have spent more on investing in new music artists.

hawsrulebegin
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I just listened to an interview by Ali Abdaal that they launched Audiobooks. I guess they are tapping into creator-led content very heavily, as well as newly published authors

ninthvalkyrie
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YouTube is the best podcast channel and if they were to do videos more on the platform it'll be more profitable! I know of just one podcast on Spotify that has video that goes on the app.

Gingermycat
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This was super well done. Very interesting topic

brycejn
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I never saw the appeal of Spotify. To me it was like having the worst parts of radio and mp3s. I rather just stick to radio and my ipod thank you very much 😂

janette
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Time for Microsoft to yoink another giant

meghpatel