[SPOT] Spotify – scuttleblurb

[ADYEN] Adyen N.V. [FIS] Fidelity National Information [FISV] Fiserv [GPN] Global Payments

A tour through payments: part 2 (Adyen, GPN, FIS, FISV)

January 16, 2023

Hi everyone, scuttleblurb is now on Substack (link). You don’t need to do anything. scuttleblurb [...]

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[MA] Mastercard [V] Visa

A tour through payments: part 1 (Visa and Mastercard)

December 22, 2022

This is my last post of the year. Before getting into it, here are some [...]

[SITE] SiteOne

[SITE] SiteOne Landscape Supply

November 28, 2022

SiteOne sources 135k landscaping SKUs from 5k suppliers and distributes to 280k customers, most of [...]

[VRSK] Verisk Analytics

November 28, 2022

One job of an insurance commissioner is to ensure that carriers under their jurisdiction have [...]

[CSGP] CoStar Group

[CSGP] CoStar

November 15, 2022

One way to make money is to start with transactions and monetize the data exhaust. [...]

[SPOT] Spotify, [UMG] Universal Music, [WMG] Warner Music

[UMG, WMG] record labels and the music industry: opportunities and challenges

Posted on July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 by scuttleblurb

I. Every few years, this graphic from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), reproduced by Matthew Ball, makes the rounds: It shows how a 15-year decline in recorded music revenue, precipitated by the cannibalistic effect of free downloads, is being reversed by the rise of subscription fees from digital streaming providers (DSPs). As I […]

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[SIRI] SiriusXM, [SPOT] Spotify

[Sirius/Pandora – SIRI; Spotify – SPOT] Long-term relevance, long-term dominance

Posted on May 14, 2019July 7, 2022 by scuttleblurb

Prior to their July 2008 merger, Sirius and XM were locked in a bloody Betamax/VHS-like standards war: each company operated its own satellite constellation and broadcasted on separate frequencies; each had its own radio to receive and digitize signals; each spent extravagant sums marketing their services and mirror imaging the other’s content – Sirius had […]