Kobalt's plan to regrow the music industry
summary
Argues Kobalt built an end-to-end global monetization platform that ingests Spotify, Apple and YouTube usage files, cuts leaking transaction costs (claims current 8% waste) and delivers a reported 4% uplift in payouts and real-time transparent statements; projects the market grows from about $15B to $50 billion in five years and expands earning artists from 5,000 to 200,000 bands; launched an artist app showing city-level fan data and gives an example of a jazz musician’s quarterly income jumping from ~$2,000 to ~$30,000.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and industry challenges
- 2:06Cobalt's solution and transparency
- 4:54Market growth potential to 50 billion
- 7:07Benefits for artists and songwriters
- 11:22Labels' mindset and streaming future
- 15:41Market segmentation and voice tech
- 17:50Summary and optimistic vision
