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Spotify in talks to acquire SoundCloud
30th September 2016
Spotify needs scale and a broader range of users - will a bid for the German-based business SoundCloud make good commercial sense in the increasingly contestable global market for digitally streamed music?
The major challenge for the digitally-disrupted (or is that digitally-enhanced?) music industry is to grow the installed user base and develop a product that enough people are willing to pay for through a subscription model. There are positive signs for the industry drawing on recent data from the USA.
You will find more statistics at Statista
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Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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