Every time this guy says stupid shit like this my sales of CDs and vinyl go up 20%

do we need more music? i feel like i have enough to last me for the rest of my life

agree with you 100% you share the same emotions that i do its so frustrating seeing how things are now

For me, the music industry fell off when spotify took over. I miss iTunes and buying music weirdly enough.

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It’s all just ones and zeros to him, and he especially likes those strings of zeros.

Best video from D yet

I miss SoundCloud when my community was all in one place

He's obviously thinking about AI generated content - not human content.- and those timeless ideas are just training data for later... So whilst you say you are not ranting - it's the last refuge of a dying art form since we're clearly becoming more invisible

Wonderful insights. I agree with you on 99% of this one. As someone that has released stuff in the past, I've always wanted to take music more seriously and definitely have the capability to. I think I have a solid plan now but in the past it has derailed me or been incredibly discouraging to finally get 1k plays then go on Spotify and see it made me 19 cents... then Spotify sends me emails about paying insane monthly fees to be placed onto their personalized Playlists "promising" it will pay for itself. It felt like a complete kick in the gut and realizing to be successful my plan is to have a strong skin and make money from selling digital products as opposed to the raw music itself.

Agreed! They could be helping to keep small music venues open

I don't think it is a disrespectful quote; It has become easier and cheaper to make music over the last years for sure.

Soundrop is the BEST, best at collecting rewards too. Routenote is 2nd!

my name is damian

Key sentence here is “creating content” we use to create art in the form of music. Now they just want to fill the internet with “content” whatever the heck that means

Spotify should make the audience subscribe to artists before the music can be played on free version. So when someone licks on an artists music it comes up with a message saying subscribe to listen.

Daniel only listens to AI music

Well said “this is bullshit” Love the idea about Spotify giving back - it’s completely in their self interest to do so

Damian, your video on AI tools for music is killer stuff! Got me thinking about other efficiency tools like FilterBounce for cold emails. Been using it for 4 months to verify emails and keep my bounce rates ridiculously low. Also, it is only $10 a month, making it super affordable. Absolutely recommend it.

Top-notch video on AI tools, Damian! This got me thinking about cold email tools. Mystrika is got me covered for 6 months now, it offers unlimited sending email addresses which is hard to beat. Plus, the unified inbox feature is a game changer. Really recommend diving into their Cold Email Accelerator Masterclass.

Man, this AI tools for music video is gold, Damian! Speaking of tools, for cold emailing, I have been hooked on FilterBounce for 3 months. It keeps my bounce rate under control, under 1%, which is crucial. Their real-time verification API is so effective, even tricky domains are not a problem. Worth checking out!

This video on AI in music is killer! Would love to see more on similar tools. Now for cold emails, Mystrika has been a gem for me over the past 4 months. The high-quality email warmup in multiple languages ensures my emails do not hit the spam folder. Plus, they have got this free Cold Email Accelerator guide that is been incredibly helpful!

Damian, you have nailed it again with the AI tools for music video! Makes me think of other tools to optimize work. Cold emails? Mystrika has been my go-to for nearly 6 months. The AI writing and personalization features are top-notch, making my emails stand out. The user-friendly interface makes everything so smooth.

gotta love the naivety of grown ass men discovering capitalism and begging capitalists for education. its cute :)

A colonizer and a capitalist walked (or rather parachuted) into a bar.

Capitalist did a capitalism. I think someone needs to explain to this gentleman that CEO's do not care about the greater good of an industry...or even humanity.

Thanx

Nice video

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welcome to capitalism. spotify is a company and as such it's only motive is to make money. and they're apparently pretty good at it. education? universities? grants? that's what governments do. spotify has absolutely no incentive for doing any of that. if you want change you need to change the system not argue that someone who's just doing ther job should provide charity. if daniel ek did what you want, quarterly results would go down and he'd be replaced by someone who'd make the numbers go up again. if people should get a fair share for the work they do, capitalism has to go.

Love the ideas here

We are the ones who give them the power to do this. The money doesn't jump itself into their hands. We are paying for the destruction of music. I still think messages like this are great and it's good for people to get that message but we keep saying it because we keep paying for it. Same with every streaming platform out there that has been engaging in similar business practices. Change doesn't happen until we drop the FOMO.

The harsh truth is because you attempted "click bait" on me, I'm unsubsribed and I'm gone.

Spotify will be a standard pump and dump model. Now that they've cornered the market and made themselves indispensable they will increase the shareholder value by putting up subscription fees and then Ek will sell in a couple of years.

"I don't want this to be a negative video about Spotify" ...another episode of sitting on the fence after luring us in with a clickable title which suggests the opposite. Classic KZbin. Pure content.

Watching from Nashville. Incredible advice, such high value advice. Thank You!

Very informative.

Dude's a parasite. And on another note has he ever heard of "opportunity cost"? Just proves you don't have to be smart to be a CEO just predatory and opportunistic

music making equals time, time equals money.

I know what else to say. I’m done with it I’m just gonna start a KZbin channel and post my music there till I can monetize and then hopefully build the music community of my dreams. I’m done with streaming platforms

Who’s the artist?

I like your ideas about it supporting growth and education. Maybe he's saying/hinting simply there's a plan to shift the whole business to AI produced spec music filler, top classic catalog assets, and net-positive profit-makers only, however, so the insult is just incidental to the real statement of-- you are not in my thoughts, and literally not part of the plan.😮 Cynical. But the statement he made is truly abhorent, however its intent manifests.

Spotify pays nexts to nothing for content, it is a content provider service. It pays maintenance for this service to provide the content that gets created. Getting paid for royalties is the issue. The legal system is broken. .100 000 new tracks uploaded per day, free content for spotify and they expand.

I can tell you why Spotify doesn't help the small artists. Spotify wants to get rid of them. They're only interested in the big names because the labels shall get the money. The small artists will be replaced by AI bots run by Spotify itself so they don't need to pay the independent artist.

@damienkeyes 2024 ads is not it. It messus up the algoritm. If you instead grow account by posting alot, you gain more from it

This is silly if you notice most music that have the most amount of views are with music videos. For me I still enjoy watching an interesting music video.

Well said mate. It really is loathsome what they are doing.

Even people merely putting a prompt into an AI music generator put more effort than Daniel Ek put in his tweet.

These days running the largest music distribution platform on earth is almost free, I think it is sort of stupid that they are taking out one billion in profits, while not even paying musicians their fair share. I understand that 50.000$ feels close to zero for a spoiled billionaire who stole most his tech from open source pirate bay, but if it feels like 50.000$ is so close to zero to him, he might as well just cover my expenses than. Like a drop in the bucket for him, but a lifetime achievement for a hard working and educated musician, who just happen to have produced remixes for some of the biggest artists on the fricking planet.

Awesome! Thank you for this!