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Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next week
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Here's a good estimate on their hosting, streaming and licensing costs
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/oct/08/spotify-internet
They tack it down to about 6 million a month that is of course excluding lawyers and other salaries.
Interesting. That's dated October of 2009 and says Spotify had 5m users. Looks like they have ~200m users today. At a linear scaling it'd be twenty times larger, or £120m=$154m per month. That's $1.85b/year.
In reality it wouldn't scale linearly, but it also accounts for zero salaries, which was the major component of my comment.
Look I appreciate the downvotes and all, but didn't you just say that fixed costs don't go up and down with users?
(1) I didn't downvote you.
(2) I said something similar but critically different:
The intended size of the platform dictates the fixed costs.
And...
(3) The data you provided wasn't fixed costs. It was variable costs like server time, music rights, and bandwidth.