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For some reason, this doesn't sound inviting to me. I prefer to purchase artist merchandise directly from the artists rather than through Spotify. 

Would love to hear more thoughts...

For some reason, this doesn't sound inviting to me. I prefer to purchase artist merchandise directly from the artists rather than through Spotify. 

Would love to hear more thoughts...

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/16/spotify-launching-personalized-in-app-merch-hub/

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I’m assuming that Shopify and Spotify have some sort of deal because I don’t see any information about how Spotify makes money from this. In that case it’s not a bad idea, although this would be artists giving up even more of their data to Spotify.

Overall, I think I like this, especially since they are working with Shopify to do it. That means the artists own the relationship with their fans. That's important, essential even. I'll be interested to hear about the successes, especially for smaller artists.

I agree, just seems like another tactic to gain more leverage and data. I highly doubt smaller artists will benefit from this.

I want to support people not platforms so if they do it right I’m down but considering the realities I doubt they will impress fans or creators in a meaningful way that warrants migrating from other tools. Spotify and other incumbents are antisocial in a lot of frustrating ways

We need to tokenize music rights but I feel like the music itself needs to live on a blockchain so that we can track everything in a transparent manner. But VCs are already thirsty and treating music like an asset they can flip.

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We need to tokenize music rights but I feel like the music itself needs to live on a blockchain so that we can track everything in a transparent manner. But VCs are already thirsty and treating music like an asset they can flip. 

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Sad to see shipping cost more than the item itself sometimes. 

Boomkat looks interesting. I love learning about how these businesses work and what strategic advantages they have.

For some regions, it's always easier to acquire merch from vendors with a pro shipping network. I prefer the likes of Boomkat—or anything similar when it comes to merch—Bandcamp etc. stores of artists but 99% of them get lost in shipping.

That's why you can find the most niché merch on Amazon Türkiye, for ex.

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SonX sounds cool but seems like there's a token yet it's barely mentioned on the website.

SonX are changing this for the middle layer of artists.

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I agree, but if I were an artist, I would utilize Spotify while also making a dedicated effort to build and control my own relationship with my most devoted fans. But beating Spotify at their own game is easier said than done. Their leverage continues to grow, especially now that AI is getting so good at recommendation

I agree it's less inviting than P2P. It may not matter though. The scale of existing listener-base on Spotify, combined with targeted ads are likely to drive more in-app sales for artists than other merch distribution channels such as website or social w/o the embedded music.