Comments on: Our Latest Podcast: Latin America Has 640 Million People. Why Are Fewer Than 5% of Them Paying for Streaming?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:21:03 +0000

– when you hate the poor but don’t want to say it lol

By: Hector

Hector — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:29:11 +0000

Not so much, most of those plans are “illimitado” on data for many services, but you gotta still pay for premium. My guess here is that you have Spotify not wanting to be held hostage by some carrier middle man

By: Tony van Veen

Tony van Veen — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:44:03 +0000

Actually, while there’s truth to the low premium subscriber penetration, the article comes to the wrong conclusion because you’re selectively presenting partial data. Growth in paid streaming in LatAm is HUGE. And the paying base is much larger than you report.

How so, you ask? Because the vast majority of streaming use comes through subscriptions that are bundled with — and paid for by — the big Telcos. If you have a cell subscription with Claro, or Tim, or any other South American mobile carrier, odds are good that it includes a subscription to a streaming service. And the Telcos pay the streaming services for those partnerships.

This Telco-paid streaming is one of the driving factors of the huge growth in digital music in LatAm.

By: Sholomo the Truth

Sholomo the Truth — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:50:58 +0000

Wow this article is riveting. Nothing of substance to read. Oh people aren’t paying for streaming in LATM because of poverty issues. Ok got it. Thanks captain obvious.