As the Wall Street Journal had announced, the Swedish company has officially presented its subscription platform a podcast, a platform that differs greatly from the operation of podcast subscriptions that Apple presented last week, partially confirming the information that this medium advanced.
La Spotify podcast subscription platform will not keep any percentage of the amount paid by users during the first two years. The only amount that content creators will see discounted will be the commission that the payment platform keeps for each transaction (Stripe).
From the third year, Spotify will keep 5% commission on all subscriptions. All content creators who want to monetize their content through Spotify have to use the platform Anchor, a platform that Apple bought a couple of years ago for more than $ 100 million.
The price that publishers can charge is $ 2,99, $ 4,99, or $ 7,99 per month. Although publishers use the Anchor platform to upload and mark podcasts as “subscribers only,” podcasts will be available on Spotify marked with a padlock.
In order to listen to it, users will have to visit the website of the program in question and subscribe, the only method available to be able to skip the 30% commission charged by both Apple and Google. Initially it seems a bit cumbersome, but it is to be expected that all the content will be integrated in a much more comfortable and simple way for the users.
With this announcement, Spotify ensures attract a large number of content creatorsSince, after the first two years, the Spotify service commission is 5%. With Apple Podcast, during the first year, Tim Cook's company keeps 30%, while from the second year onwards it drops to 15%.
Initially the Spotify podcast platform will be released exclusively in the United States to gradually expand to more countries.
