Culture sector should use Spotify for inspiration, says report
Cultural organisations need to develop their own versions of Spotify to create new income streams, according to a report written for Arts Council England.
In Supporting Growth in the Arts Economy, Tom Fleming and Andrew Erskine argue that the culture sector has to develop subscription models for online content in the same way that digital streaming service Spotify has done in the music industry.
The report says: “Developing successful, revenue-generating subscription models for the digital content of arts organisations has to be explored. Just as Spotify and Last.fm are in different ways exploring subscription or ad-based models for streaming music, so a ‘cultural’ subscription model needs to be explored, providing access to multiple platforms across different devices.”
Speaking to The Stage, Fleming added: “What we are not very good at in the arts is building on good practice and then translating it into different elements and different parts of the arts sector, so where we see stuff like Spotify, and we see a business model that works in that context for that sector of the arts, why aren’t we applying that and exploring what that might mean in the performing arts?”
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Yup, that’ll do it. You have my appcreiation.
Great stuff, you hleped me out so much!
Great stuff, you hleped me out so much!
Kudos! What a neat way of thinnikg about it.
Kudos! What a neat way of thinnikg about it.
I’ll help you test the comments.I just flloowed the instructions you gave and successfully created a spotify account. I fully expected the Internet police to come crashing through my door the second I was done. They did not.
I’ll help you test the comments.I just flloowed the instructions you gave and successfully created a spotify account. I fully expected the Internet police to come crashing through my door the second I was done. They did not.
I’ll help you test the comments.I just fowoelld the instructions you gave and successfully created a spotify account. I fully expected the Internet police to come crashing through my door the second I was done. They did not.
I’ll help you test the comments.I just fowoelld the instructions you gave and successfully created a spotify account. I fully expected the Internet police to come crashing through my door the second I was done. They did not.
I’ll help you test the comments.I just fowoelld the instructions you gave and successfully created a spotify account. I fully expected the Internet police to come crashing through my door the second I was done. They did not.
I only have had my Omnia for a few weeks now and its annoying the hell out of me.The thing is.. anocunned the app for 7 alongside the release of the app for 6.That was 7 months ago. s policy is not to talk about software in enhancement. They give no ETA’s, and no information.The only way to find out if they were still working on it was to punch support personnel until they said something.. but they stuck the policy.
I only have had my Omnia for a few weeks now and its annoying the hell out of me.The thing is.. anocunned the app for 7 alongside the release of the app for 6.That was 7 months ago. s policy is not to talk about software in enhancement. They give no ETA’s, and no information.The only way to find out if they were still working on it was to punch support personnel until they said something.. but they stuck the policy.
Janet,Thank you very much for your comment. I aaylws wondered how the whole thing started and thanks to you and twitter now I know. It is my intention to come to Wootton Bassett at some point this year, although I don’t know when as I am still having some health issues.I have several friends in the armed services, or recently retired. From them and others I learned of the absurd lack of equipment our troops had, long before the story broke in the media. It is testament to the spirit of these people that they didn’t moan, but merely went to the shops to buy desert camo gear and even bullet proofs in one instance. The standard of equipment some units were supplied with was a very unfunny joke. Afghanistan wasn’t much better organised by many accounts. Despite these unnecessary hindrances our troops go and try and do the best job they can and then some desk jockey in London decides to slate the Army, or the armed forces generally. It makes my blood boil. If certain journalists were as quick to find out the facts and expose what was really going on then maybe more lives would have been saved.I really wish that people could separate criticising foreign policy from criticising the people whose job it is to try and carry those policies out.Best wishes to you and all your townsfolk.Dave
Janet,Thank you very much for your comment. I aaylws wondered how the whole thing started and thanks to you and twitter now I know. It is my intention to come to Wootton Bassett at some point this year, although I don’t know when as I am still having some health issues.I have several friends in the armed services, or recently retired. From them and others I learned of the absurd lack of equipment our troops had, long before the story broke in the media. It is testament to the spirit of these people that they didn’t moan, but merely went to the shops to buy desert camo gear and even bullet proofs in one instance. The standard of equipment some units were supplied with was a very unfunny joke. Afghanistan wasn’t much better organised by many accounts. Despite these unnecessary hindrances our troops go and try and do the best job they can and then some desk jockey in London decides to slate the Army, or the armed forces generally. It makes my blood boil. If certain journalists were as quick to find out the facts and expose what was really going on then maybe more lives would have been saved.I really wish that people could separate criticising foreign policy from criticising the people whose job it is to try and carry those policies out.Best wishes to you and all your townsfolk.Dave
Janet,Thank you very much for your comment. I aaylws wondered how the whole thing started and thanks to you and twitter now I know. It is my intention to come to Wootton Bassett at some point this year, although I don’t know when as I am still having some health issues.I have several friends in the armed services, or recently retired. From them and others I learned of the absurd lack of equipment our troops had, long before the story broke in the media. It is testament to the spirit of these people that they didn’t moan, but merely went to the shops to buy desert camo gear and even bullet proofs in one instance. The standard of equipment some units were supplied with was a very unfunny joke. Afghanistan wasn’t much better organised by many accounts. Despite these unnecessary hindrances our troops go and try and do the best job they can and then some desk jockey in London decides to slate the Army, or the armed forces generally. It makes my blood boil. If certain journalists were as quick to find out the facts and expose what was really going on then maybe more lives would have been saved.I really wish that people could separate criticising foreign policy from criticising the people whose job it is to try and carry those policies out.Best wishes to you and all your townsfolk.Dave
This is a lovely-to-read, well-considered arltcie that I discovered by following a link on Twitter. Thank you.I live in Wootton Bassett, and I thought that, as I’m writing, I’d fill the gap in your knowledge as to how the media discovered us’.After about a year of repatriations during which we thought the town’s activities went unnoticed by anyone, we were surprised to hear that the armed forces themselves were deeply touched by the town’s simple tribute. On 12th October 2008 they organised a full, joint armed forces military band parade through Wootton Bassett High Street as a tribute (you can see the event on YouTube). The media turned up for the first time in force, and have been doing so ever since. One positive result is that extended family and friends of those KIA, who did not have access to the repatriation service at RAF Lyneham, have somewhere they can go to be in touch with the dreadful event they have to come to terms with. The townsfolk now take a step back from the roadside; the event now belongs so much more to the bereaved.
This is a lovely-to-read, well-considered arltcie that I discovered by following a link on Twitter. Thank you.I live in Wootton Bassett, and I thought that, as I’m writing, I’d fill the gap in your knowledge as to how the media discovered us’.After about a year of repatriations during which we thought the town’s activities went unnoticed by anyone, we were surprised to hear that the armed forces themselves were deeply touched by the town’s simple tribute. On 12th October 2008 they organised a full, joint armed forces military band parade through Wootton Bassett High Street as a tribute (you can see the event on YouTube). The media turned up for the first time in force, and have been doing so ever since. One positive result is that extended family and friends of those KIA, who did not have access to the repatriation service at RAF Lyneham, have somewhere they can go to be in touch with the dreadful event they have to come to terms with. The townsfolk now take a step back from the roadside; the event now belongs so much more to the bereaved.