

Music streaming platforms' audience sizes compared - marcadam
http://www.ventureharbour.com/which-music-discovery-platform-has-the-most-effective-marketing/

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quahada
Among the bleeding edge tech community, Deezer and Spotify are considered the
poster children. It's interesting how big Pandora's following is, and how this
will change over time as awareness for the newer services builds among the
general population.

It will also be interesting to see a trend comparison of pure internet radio
platforms, like Pandora and Songza.

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marcadam
Yep - the thing about these numbers are that they're obviously based on
_registered_ users, not active users. For example, which Spotify may have 33
million users, only 20 million of those are active. Pandora may have an
impressive 150 million registered users, but I imagine the drop off rate of
active users is relatively high given the increase in popularity of other
services.

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quahada
yeah, and with these streaming services there's also free vs paid users.

And Pandora is not profitable. I believe Pandora loses money with each user-
hour, which means more users == more losses.

