Most people assume their Spotify subscription supports the artists they love.

The actual mechanics are worth understanding. Under a pro-rata model - which almost every major platform uses - all subscription revenue is pooled globally and redistributed by total stream counts.

If you spend a month listening exclusively to a local independent artist, your subscription fee is still mostly subsidising whoever has the most global streams.

User-centric models work differently. Your fee goes to the artists you actually listened to, in proportion to your listening. Research suggests this can increase payments to independent and local artists by 25 - 50%.

The Pack is built on a user-centric model from the ground up. The money follows your actual choices. Better yet, we're an artist cooperative, owned by our members… musicians. We're crowdfunding now.

https://crowdfunding.startsomegood.com/thepackmusiccoop #StreamingEconomics #UserCentricPayments #MusicIndustryReform #FairRoyalties

Most people assume their Spotify subscription supports the artists they love.

The actual mechanics are worth understanding. Under a pro-rata model - which almost every major platform uses - all subscription revenue is pooled globally and redistributed by total stream counts.

If you spend a month listening exclusively to a local independent artist, your subscription fee is still mostly subsidising whoever has the most global streams.

User-centric models work differently. Your fee goes to the artists you actually listened to, in proportion to your listening. Research suggests this can increase payments to independent and local artists by 25 - 50%.

The Pack is built on a user-centric model from the ground up. The money follows your actual choices. Better yet, we're an artist cooperative, owned by our members… musicians. We're crowdfunding now.

https://crowdfunding.startsomegood.com/thepackmusiccoop #StreamingEconomics #UserCentricPayments #MusicIndustryReform #FairRoyalties

Most people assume their Spotify subscription supports the artists they love.

The actual mechanics are worth understanding. Under a pro-rata model - which almost every major platform uses - all subscription revenue is pooled globally and redistributed by total stream counts.

If you spend a month listening exclusively to a local independent artist, your subscription fee is still mostly subsidising whoever has the most global streams.

User-centric models work differently. Your fee goes to the artists you actually listened to, in proportion to your listening. Research suggests this can increase payments to independent and local artists by 25 - 50%.

The Pack is built on a user-centric model from the ground up. The money follows your actual choices. Better yet, we're an artist cooperative, owned by our members… musicians. We're crowdfunding now.

https://crowdfunding.startsomegood.com/thepackmusiccoop #StreamingEconomics #UserCentricPayments #MusicIndustryReform #FairRoyalties

Here is how your music subscription currently works. You pay. Your money goes into a pool with everyone else's money. The platform takes 30%. The remaining pool is divided among all rights holders in proportion to their share of total global streams.

If you listen exclusively to independent Australian musicians, your subscription is still subsidising the artists who dominate the global stream count. You have no meaningful say in who your money reaches.

The user-centric model works differently: your subscription goes to the artists you actually listen to. The Pack's 1:1 model is this written into cooperative governance - not a policy subject to revision when major rights holders push back, or when shareholders decide they deserve a bigger slice of the pie.

We don't think this is a difficult decision. It's just a different decision about whose interests the platform was designed to serve. We think it should be musicians, not billionaire tech-bros.

New blog on the pro-rata system, the user-centric alternative, and what $7 a month means when you get to direct it.

👉 https://www.packmusic.au/blog/thepackbonus

#UserCentricPayments #MusicRoyalties #StreamingModel #IndependentMusic #ThePackMusic #FairPay #MusicianOwned #EthicalStreaming

Most people assume their Spotify subscription supports the artists they love.

The actual mechanics are worth understanding. Under a pro-rata model - which almost every major platform uses - all subscription revenue is pooled globally and redistributed by total stream counts.

If you spend a month listening exclusively to a local independent artist, your subscription fee is still mostly subsidising whoever has the most global streams.

User-centric models work differently. Your fee goes to the artists you actually listened to, in proportion to your listening. Research suggests this can increase payments to independent and local artists by 25 - 50%.

The Pack is built on a user-centric model from the ground up. The money follows your actual choices. Better yet, we're an artist cooperative, owned by our members… musicians. We're crowdfunding now.

https://crowdfunding.startsomegood.com/thepackmusiccoop #StreamingEconomics #UserCentricPayments #MusicIndustryReform #FairRoyalties

Most people assume their Spotify subscription supports the artists they love.

The actual mechanics are worth understanding. Under a pro-rata model - which almost every major platform uses - all subscription revenue is pooled globally and redistributed by total stream counts.

If you spend a month listening exclusively to a local independent artist, your subscription fee is still mostly subsidising whoever has the most global streams.

User-centric models work differently. Your fee goes to the artists you actually listened to, in proportion to your listening. Research suggests this can increase payments to independent and local artists by 25 - 50%.

The Pack is built on a user-centric model from the ground up. The money follows your actual choices. Better yet, we're an artist cooperative, owned by our members… musicians. We're crowdfunding now.

https://crowdfunding.startsomegood.com/thepackmusiccoop #StreamingEconomics #UserCentricPayments #MusicIndustryReform #FairRoyalties

Most people assume their Spotify subscription supports the artists they love.

The actual mechanics are worth understanding. Under a pro-rata model - which almost every major platform uses - all subscription revenue is pooled globally and redistributed by total stream counts.

If you spend a month listening exclusively to a local independent artist, your subscription fee is still mostly subsidising whoever has the most global streams.

User-centric models work differently. Your fee goes to the artists you actually listened to, in proportion to your listening. Research suggests this can increase payments to independent and local artists by 25 - 50%.

The Pack is built on a user-centric model from the ground up. The money follows your actual choices. Better yet, we're an artist cooperative, owned by our members… musicians. We're crowdfunding now.

https://crowdfunding.startsomegood.com/thepackmusiccoop #StreamingEconomics #UserCentricPayments #MusicIndustryReform #FairRoyalties