How does this compare to YouTube's 45% revenue share or app store 30% fees?
It's not really comparable — YouTube/app stores take a percentage of realized revenue, while streaming calculates a per-stream payout from a shared pool. See /platform-fee for a full platform-fee comparison.
What to do now
- It's not really comparable — YouTube/app stores take a percentage of realized revenue, while streaming calculates a per-stream payout from a shared pool. See /platform-fee for a full platform-fee comparison.
Who owns the resolution
Music Streaming (Spotify)'s own support/policy team decides this -- AMS explains the policy but has no account access and cannot make this decision for you.
Evidence to prepare
- Your account email or user ID
- Screenshots or a confirmation number for the specific order/booking/transaction
- Any messages you already exchanged with support about this
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I need practical help with a Music Streaming (Spotify) issue. The policy question: How does this compare to YouTube's 45% revenue share or app store 30% fees? Useful context I found: It's not really comparable — YouTube/app stores take a percentage of realized revenue, while streaming calculates a per-stream payout from a shared pool. See /platform-fee for a full platform-fee comparison. My specific situation: [Describe what happened, including dates and messages shown] The outcome I want: [Refund, verification, appeal, account recovery, explanation, etc.] Important constraints: [Country, deadline, booking/account status, documents already submitted, budget, or other limits] Please: 1. Identify any missing facts you need before reaching a conclusion. 2. Separate platform policy, local law, and your own inference. 3. Give me the safest next steps in priority order. 4. Use current official sources where possible and flag anything that may have changed. 5. Draft a concise message I can paste to customer support. 6. Do not invent account access, guarantees, refund rights, or legal conclusions.
Why this policy exists
YouTube and app stores take a fixed percentage of actual revenue generated (ad revenue, purchase amount) — a "fee rate" you can directly compare. Streaming works differently: total subscription and ad revenue gets pooled, divided by total platform-wide stream count, and a per-stream rate gets calculated retroactively — so your subscription fee doesn't go directly to the artist you listened to; you're paid out only in proportion to that artist's share of that month's total plays across the entire platform. It's commonly misunderstood as "the fee rate is high/low" when it's actually a fundamentally different payout mechanism.
Need to act on your account?
AMS explains the rule but cannot access your account, issue a refund or change a platform decision.