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🎧 Episode 1 — Spotify, Audio, and Business Model Leverage
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English - December 13, 2019 09:18 - 12 minutesInvesting Business Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week, I dive deep on Spotify, the exploding audio market, and a concept called Business Model Leverage.
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You can find all of the links from the episode below.
Maffei — "When you sum it, we believe the ear is under-monetized versus the eye."
"Audio...Liberty still loves you" (Sirius XM / Liberty Media Investor Day)
Greg Maffei on CNBC
Pandora — "We want a bigger Share of Ear in the expanding Audio Day"
Gavin Baker — Monetization follow attention and engagement.
Nicola Korzenko (Podfund)
The Podcast Monetization Gap
Spotify Q3 2019
Business Model Leverage
BAML Research on Podcasts
Blending genres of audio...
Deep Cuts
Retweetables — Semil on Followability
Rereadables — Bill Gurley on the 10x Revenue Club
Relistenables — A16Z, A Podcast About Podcasting
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