Spotify Killed The Radio Star?

This past few years has seen a rise in the big music streaming services such as Deezer, Amazon Music & Spotify etc.

There's to much competition from services like Spotify Pandora and Deezer and they are slowly killing Internet radio.

One station owner had this to say:

Over the last 3 years my listeners have dropped off to almost nothing

I have promoted my station lots on social media.

Internetradio gets beaten on all fronts, if isn't the rise of the streaming services, it's the royalties pricing pushing stations offline.

There's just been a rise in the amount of royalties paid by Internet radio stations and it has forced lots of stations to go off air.

The licencing agencies want to drive broadcasters out of the market by demanding more for Royalties.

Internet radio station owners keep getting screwed over time and again when it comes to royalty payment agencies

It emerged a few years back that a provider called Loudcity hadn't been paying the right royalties to the relevant agencies and sadly it appears Stream Licencing were (allegedly) doing the same.

All the FUN has been taken out of the Internet broadcasting game. I can remember when it was fun being a broadcaster online.

Most stations live in fear not knowing if they've been paying the right royalties to various collection agencies

Who also worry that their station(s) may be forced to shut down.

Internet radio has long borne the brunt of the royalties demanded

It's a lot more expensive than it was 20 years ago when sites like Live365 were in their infancy.

Its a sad state of affairs right now for Internet radio!

Spotify wants to KILL Radio as we know it!