Mediagazer: Why Losing Free Customers is a Good Thing for Spotify's Business Model (Mark Mulligan/Music Industry Blog)

4:55 AM ET, September 26, 2012

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Mark Mulligan / Music Industry Blog:

Why Losing Free Customers is a Good Thing for Spotify's Business Model — In my Future Music Forum keynote last week I discussed some Spotify metrics which were picked up by Paid Content and have stirred up a bit of a debate. Here is a little more context to those numbers.

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