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French web-based music and podcast streaming service
Several clear ethical alternatives to Spotify exist, each emphasizing different remedies to the platform’s most criticized practices: and prioritize direct artist revenue and cooperative governance, a...
Most consumer guides and journalists in 2025 point to Bandcamp, Resonate, Napster and a handful of smaller or niche services as the most “ethical” choices because they pay artists more directly or use...
Deezer promotes an “artist-centric” payout model, has signed the Statement on AI training and rolled out AI-detection and labelling to protect artists from synthetic content, and in 2025 adopted the a...
Deezer has faced significant data-privacy controversies: security researchers and media reported a large breach tied to a third‑party backup that exposed hundreds of millions of user records (reports ...
Deezer is a Paris‑based, publicly listed music streaming service whose revenues are distributed across operating costs, royalty payments and returns to investors; the company publishes a Code of Ethic...
Available reporting shows estimates vary widely but cluster around Deezer paying modestly more per stream than Spotify while Apple Music and TIDAL generally pay more than both. Example published estim...
Deezer is broadly comparable to Spotify as a full-featured music streamer: both offer large libraries, smartphone/desktop apps, free ad-supported tiers and paid plans, and most core features listeners...
There is that Joan Baez pulled her music from Amazon; reporting instead references royalty auctions, streaming statistics, and industry disputes without stating any removal. Multiple recent items note...
Deezer introduced a new “artist‑centric” royalty model in 2023 that was rolled out first in France and expanded thereafter; the change was designed to boost payouts to professional artists (Deezer and...
The original Candace Owens podcast episodes are distributed across major podcast platforms — Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Deezer — and show up in third‑party episode indexes like Podchaser and ListenNo...
Rights holders and artists have pursued a mix of commercial negotiations, public critique and routine copyright takedown routes against Deezer; high‑profile legal damages or regulatory enforcement act...
Blind-listening comparisons that used high-quality DACs and wired headphones frequently found Deezer HiFi’s CD‑quality FLAC and Spotify’s recently introduced lossless streams effectively indistinguish...
In 2025, niche and smaller services report the highest average payouts per stream: Napster is cited around $0.019–$0.021 per stream , and TIDAL commonly appears near $0.0125–$0.01284 per stream . Majo...
Available reporting in the provided search results shows no documented labor disputes, union drives, or strikes specifically involving Deezer employees or contractors; corporate filings, investor rele...
is the principal streaming company singled out in the reporting for ties between leadership investments and AI weapons firms—coverage alleges Spotify CEO/co‑founder has backed AI drone maker , prompti...
Deezer has no documented record in the provided reporting of having donated to Donald Trump, his inauguration, or Republican political causes; Deezer’s own Code of Ethics explicitly forbids direct or ...
Streaming payouts in 2025–2026 remain a landscape of ranges, not fixed cents: established data and industry trackers show Spotify among the lower-paying mainstream services (roughly $0.003–$0.005 per ...
In 2025 the highest per‑stream payouts skewed toward smaller, paid‑only or audiophile platforms—Napster, TIDAL, Apple Music and niche services like Qobuz reported the strongest per‑stream averages—whi...
Purchase- or premium‑centric revenue (users who pay for subscriptions or buy tracks) typically yields higher per‑stream and per‑user receipts than ad‑supported listening, giving mid‑career and indepen...
Streaming platforms pool subscription and ad revenue, keep a platform cut, then allocate the remaining “royalty pool” to rights holders using either a market‑share (pro‑rata) or, increasingly in debat...