All posts tagged: UMG

Posted on Apr 5, 2025 at 23:00 by scott truitt

Ad-supported and subscription-based monetisation business models punish the music industry, especially indie artists and labels, for its success. How? Both limit how much money artists, labels, and rights holders can earn on their music. Why? It’s more profitable for Spotify and the like to collect money from everyone and reduce artists, labels, and rights holders to fighting for leftover scraps in a royalty pool model. They also hurt users, but we’ll cover that one next. Let’s dig in. Ad-

Posted on Mar 19, 2025 at 08:39 by scott truitt

I could write volumes (and already have) about the insights Mark Mulligan shared in his post on LinkedIn yesterday (this post is a response, and I even used the same title to anchor it). I want to focus on three things that resonated most: 1. When you read artist-centric licensing, you should translate that to UMG and Spotify-centric licensing, as “UMG and Spotify get richer, and the rest, well, who really cares?” See the shocking number Mark Johnson shared on LinkedIn yesterday about the effe