Social Media Newsfeed: Spotify Artist Payments | Holiday Shopping and Social Networks

Spotify unveils website explaining payments to artists. A look at the visual web and holiday shopping. These stories, and more, in today's Morning Social Media Newsfeed.

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Spotify to Musicians: Don’t Hate on Us (Reuters)
Spotify is renewing its effort to win over skeptical critics and artists into believing that it has a viable long-term business model. The company unveiled its new Spotify Artists website Tuesday to explain “how Spotify works, how we pay artists and where we fit into the industry.” The Wall Street Journal/Digits Spotify revealed that each time a user listens for a song, rights holders are paid between $0.006

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