Spotify Second Largest Source Of Revenue In Europe For Labels
Recent IFPI report on digital music reveals the size of Spotify in Europe and how much money it's actually churning for the record labels. The report also stated that on a European level, Spotify is the second single largest source of digital music revenue for record labels. This means that 2010 saw dramatic increase in its usage as well as payouts to record labels and artists themselves.
Lessons Learned: Developing Your Product And Pricing
Editorial note: This post is a guest post written by Ossi Marko, a lawyer who jumped ships and founded Signom, a company working with electronic signatures. Full disclosure as well - Signom is a current advertiser at ArcticStartup, but this post was in no way paid for.
I've heard and read a lot of comments about startups being afraid to launch their products. Or to put it another way, having a lot of problems determining when the product is good enough for launch. We usually tend to think that the product needs to be somewhat spectacular from the very beginning. Otherwise someone big comes and steals it and we don't have a competitive edge OR we make fools of ourselves and hang our heads in shame.
Post Your Events To ArcticIndex From Now On
I wanted to kickstart the week by giving a little heads up on our ArcticIndex and what we've been up to lately. Sometime back we added the jobs part to the website and even though it hasn't been under tremendous use - it has received a lot of attention.
Today - we're announcing an addition to the service, events. We decided to let go of our Yahoo Upcoming account and build it ourselves to ArcticIndex. Actually, the wonderful guys at Kisko Labs did it - do contact them if you're in need of development resources, they do a fantastic job. Anyways, one of the reasons was also that we really want to give all the necessary tools for the community to do this sort of activities without us being a gatekeeper in the middle.
