That is why it is so important for these services to convert their free users into paying subscribers. The Baffling (and Slightly Insane) World Of Streaming Payments, Explained This means each individual stream becomes worth less the more streams that are generated. From there, it is distributed according to the number of streams generated by users. But this much has become clear by now: all the money subscription services earn from advertising and monthly subscriptions ends up in one big pot.
It is hard to lift the veil entirely because the subscription space is a hazy jungle, with individual deals hidden behind non-disclosure agreements. It is the nature of the current payout structure of streaming subscription services that the more streams that are generated, the less each individual stream is worth.
What is more: Barrow shouldn’t have been that surprised in the first place. Income after tax = £1,700.” We already analyzed why it is hard to draw any meaningful conclusions out of this crude depiction. Remember Portishead instrumentalist Geoff Barrow‘s Twitter rant last month? “34,000,000 streams.
