Lately, we’ve started to feel more and more uncomfortable using Spotify as a tool to promote the Left of the Dial lineup. Lots of people use Spotify and it’s an easy way to reach a lot of people, but we can’t help but feel that we’re pointing our ticketholders to a platform that’s basically ripping off artists by paying them roughly €0.004 per stream, while the founder of Spotify has an estimated net worth of $4.8 billion.
We fully understand that companies need money to set up a service. It’s pretty much the same with Left of the Dial, we can’t give ALL the money from ticket sales directly to the artists, we also have to pay for a lot of other stuff (and people!) to make the festival happen.
We do try however to spend the money you spend on tickets wisely, and we really make an effort to NOT buy products or services from questionable multinationals.
We felt that Bandcamp has a much fairer business model for artists, so we have used platform Buy Music Club to make two Bandcamp playlists, one for this year’s artists, one for all artists that have previously played the festival.
Lately, we’ve started to feel more and more uncomfortable using Spotify as a tool to promote the Left of the Dial lineup. Lots of people use Spotify and it’s an easy way to reach a lot of people, but we can’t help but feel that we’re pointing our ticketholders to a platform that’s basically ripping off artists by paying them roughly €0.004 per stream, while the founder of Spotify has an estimated net worth of $4.8 billion.
We fully understand that companies need money to set up a service. It’s pretty much the same with Left of the Dial, we can’t give ALL the money from ticket sales directly to the artists, we also have to pay for a lot of other stuff (and people!) to make the festival happen.
We do try however to spend the money you spend on tickets wisely, and we really make an effort to NOT buy products or services from questionable multinationals.
We felt that Bandcamp has a much fairer business model for artists, so we have used platform Buy Music Club to make two Bandcamp playlists, one for this year's artists, one for all artists that have previously played the festival.