This is the latest graph of YouTube plays. As you can see, a number of times, YouTube takes plays away from me on a regular basis. It’s become more frequent lately and the plays taken away total about 75 plays this past month. It’s bad enough that they don’t have any promotion, but to steal views from artists shows that artists need to ban together to force DSPs to be audited.
Well, here it is 23:45 and I still haven’t been able to complete the update of Izotope’s plugins. I started this process at approximately 19:30. I need to figure out which of the 10 updates or installs I really need, as a number of them are for outdated software or superceded software. It didn’t help that one piece of software, Ozone 11, took an hour and a half to install. And it appears that software is 11 Standard, when I have a license for 11 Advanced. When the shitty Izotope Portal finally refreshes, since I wasted the whole evening waiting on the Portal as the update process needs constant babysitting,
I might as well try to update my Fabfilter plugins as there’s an update to all 10-12 plugins. The update file for all plugins add up to a massive 264 meg, which I hope will be easier than Izotope’s severely broken update process.
Update: well the Fabfilter update of the full bundle took roughly 10 minutes; in the meantime Izotope’s Portal still hasn’t refreshed, so I can’t do anymore updates. Gonna try to reboot the computer to see if that clears up the logjam.
In the meantime, I highly recommend you stay away from Izotope products. Shitty support.
Spotify continues to have trolls spreading disinformation about their payouts to artists. The 10-K, a financial statement they have to file with the SEC clearly states Spotify pays out 62% of revenues to artists. And clearly their payout has dropped from $.0032 to $.0027. What part of reality don’t you assholes understand? What’s even worse is the demonstrable fact that four years ago the payout was $.0043 per stream.
You trolls must have flunked simple math and gotten an A+ in Marketing for Sleezeballs. You’re no more capable of understanding reality than is Donald Trump.
And I got an email from UMAW saying that they’re trying to introduce legislation that requires streaming platforms to pay at least a penny per stream. That would affect bottom feeders like Spotify, Apple Music and SoundCloud. And would finally give some money to the artists that deserve to be fairly compensated. After all, most companies are multi-billion dollar operations. Show your support of UMAW at weareumaw.org
