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Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're a public company, they're required by law to share financial info.

Do you perhaps have better data though?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

From what I understand that 70% they're paying artists is from "profit."

And from another comment in this thread:

Their last quarterly financial statements shows $65 million profit on $3.36 billion in revenue.

And then you have stuff like this:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/20/spotify-to-spend-1b-buying-its-own-stock/

So lets assume they make $65 million in profit every quarter between when that article came out and April 21 2026 (the period the article states they were doing buybacks). I count 18 quarters in that period. So if my math is correct that is $1.17 billion in "profit" in the same period of time they plan to do $1 billion in stock buybacks. But artists are only getting 70% of said profits. So that's about $819 million to artists in the same period of time Spotify is doing $1 billion in stock buybacks.

So we have a mega corporation playing creative accounting and doing stock buybacks instead of paying artists more. Classic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

lets assume they make $65 million in profit every quarter

Where do you get this number from?

Hasn't Spotify been operating at a loss for most of its existence? Wouldn't that mean they paid 0€ to its creators most quaters (if it was actually calculated off profit)?