this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2026
115 points (98.3% liked)

Buy European

10537 readers
422 users here now

Overview:

The community to discuss buying European goods and services.

Matrix Chat of this community

Rules:

  • Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.

  • Do not use this community to promote Nationalism/Euronationalism. This community is for discussing European products/services and news related to that. For other topics the following might be of interest:

  • Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.

  • No russian suggestions.

Feddit.uk's instance rules apply:

  • No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia.
  • No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
  • No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
  • Do not share intentionally false or misleading information.
  • Do not spam or abuse network features.
  • Alt accounts are permitted, but all accounts must list each other in their bios.
  • No generative AI content.

Useful Websites

Benefits of Buying Local:

local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.

European Instances

Lemmy:

Friendica:

Matrix:

Related Communities:

Buy Local:

Continents:

European:

Buying and Selling:

Boycott:

Countries:

Companies:

Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:

Banner credits: BYTEAlliance

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
maam@feddit.uk
alex@jlai.lu
Argyle13@lemmy.world
meldrik@lemmy.wtf
Kjell@lemmy.world
Sunshine@piefed.ca
115
Press Release: Qobuz Delivers 45.7% Revenue Growth in 2025ย in a Paid Music Streaming Market Growing at 8.8% (community.qobuz.com)
submitted 3 days ago by squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
22 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Interesting numbers from Qobuz, a french music streaming service. But the press releases have slightly different emphasis on being european in the different languages.

The first paragraph of this press release in german reads (translated):

Qobuz proves that a European alternative that relies on sound quality and human curation can also find its audience in a mass market dominated by tech giants and achieve a positive balance.

In the french and english version it reads:

The success story of an independent French company that has become a global player alongside the music streaming giants.

It seems they only emphasize being european in the german press release, it's missing from the english and french version.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If that's the case then they're simply making more revenue per stream and clearly users are still on board so end result is qobuz wins users win and artists win

Edit: I say this because their "artists get X amount per stream on average" value is far higher than other players in the industry

[โ€“] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Following this logic, artists get more value from users if the users stream music less, since there will be a lower total amount of streams, making each stream be a larger share of the monthly fee they pay to the platform.

Which is clearly not the case - the artists still get to share the โ‚ฌ13 the users pay per month, regardless of how many streams they actually happen to play in any given month.

The truth is that "pay per stream" as a metric to compare music streaming services has always been pretty much meaningless

[โ€“] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 3 hours ago

That is a valid point.