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What's missing? Making Money on Spotify. What Can You Make?

Let's look at these numbers for online music listening. Spotify pays $0.0017 per song. YouTube pays a range from $0.0001 to 0.0003. To make $100 would take 59,000 views. $1000 requires 590,000 views $10,000 requires 5,900,000 views So what's the chances of making $10,000 1.2 million videos have received 1 million or over 1 million views (https://www.quora.com/How-many-videos-on-YouTube-have-over-1-million-views) Let's assume there are 10 billion videos on YouTube (I couldn't find exact numbers, but Facebook said 6 billion and YouTube I assume has more videos), so that's 0.012% of all videos reach 1 million views, please correct me if I did my math wrong... With YouTube, we can add in Google adwords, so I could make more money that way. So if I add ads to my videos and every 100 viewers click on one of the ads, then I could make an extra maybe $0.50 per 100 people, or $0.005 per view. That means to make $10,000 I'd only need 1.8 million views. Still not good odds. Spotify doesn't give me that option. They make the adword money, which can range from $0.1 to $1 depending on the ad. But they only get paid that when someone clicks on the ad, and they have to pay for the song no matter what. Interesting to play with the numbers...now go play music.

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