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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
From Fast Company's @johnpaul: Pandora Just Released Its Spotify Killer, And It’s Surprisingly Impressive I don't know enough about the music industry to know what it takes to pull this off but Pandora Premium feels like it's a few years late. Although Pandora has 78M monthly listeners, Spotify has 50M paying subscribers. My assumption is that most paying… See more
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Ryan Gilbert@ryangilbert · workspaced.com
@rrhoover Totally agree with your thought on paying users having settled on their music-streaming service of choice. I used to be a huge fan of Pandora as I liked being able to select a few artists/songs and have it build a relatable station that was constantly feeding me new music. However, when that novelty sort of wore off I became a paying user of Spot… See more
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Joshua@joshua_pielago · Product @ SEOReseller
@rrhoover @johnpaul @adammarx13 Unless they can somehow include a way to import playlists from other products (Spotify, 8Tracks). Music I think is too personal for people to keep on switching. And Spotify is cheap, and partnered with telcos for easy billing (at least here, in the Philippines) It would be interesting to see what else they're going to do af… See more
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Adam Marx@adammarx13 · CEO, Glipple, Inc.
@rrhoover @johnpaul Writing a larger piece on this (and other streaming services) right now, but here's my takeaway this moment: it won't change the landscape much at all. Here's why: 1) Pandora's on-demand offering is coming fairly late in the game; even Soundcloud beat them there (as a contingency for their label licensing deals over the last 18 months). … See more
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Syed Khan@syed_khan · TheGO: Video Review & Discovery App
@rrhoover I agree with you that built-in integrations work great but i would go a step further and partner with other ride sharing companies likes Lyft/uber, partner with smart tvs and wearable to create more user exposure. Pandora has lost a lot of market share and they have a lot of catching up to do when it comes to converting the spotify users back to … See more
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Corey Crossfield@coreycrossfield · Head of Digital, Revelation Management
@adammarx13 @rrhoover @johnpaul Spotify will win the streaming war - no questions, no prisoners, hands down. Apple Music has the money but with all of the major labels owning a piece of Spotify that is the sure bet here. Not to mention their users surpass every other streaming platform currently in rotation. Pandora is largely limited not only by the listeni… See more
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Adam Marx@adammarx13 · CEO, Glipple, Inc.
@coreycrossfield @rrhoover @johnpaul While I agree that Spotify has a leg up here, the statement that they will unequivocally "win the streaming war" is overly broad and a little too bullish on one particular company. Describing how many users Spotify currently has is irrelevant in this scenario; they can have all the users in the world, but if they don't co… See more
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Corey Crossfield@coreycrossfield · Head of Digital, Revelation Management
@adammarx13 Starting with my first point about Spotify winning the streaming war. They will win it. Hands down. It's not bullish it's coming from experience working with all these companies, seeing them scale and how they develop their products and relationships with copyright owners and creators. None of these companies will be sustainable without working w… See more
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Matt Hagner@hagnerd
@adammarx13 2) The reason their rates were set is because they were considered digital radio (similar to Sirius XM), or non-interactive digital streaming (which essentially means you pick a station and they decide what songs to put in front of you vs interactive digital streaming where you choose the specific songs you are listening to). I would imagine fo… See more
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Adam Marx@adammarx13 · CEO, Glipple, Inc.
@hagnerd @coreycrossfield @rrhoover @johnpaul We'll have to agree to disagree. I have other experience with many artists which I have to rely on to formulate opinions. I do think Spotify can do well, but that doesn't erase the challenges I think they will face sooner or later. Anyway, I'm always down for an academic debate, but I think we've taken up enoug… See more
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