Jamal Awil

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Financial engineering shapes the entire streaming music sector. [causal]

In the book Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music, Vonderau and his coauthors continue this analysis, "following the hype" of Spotify's successful attempts at raising venture capital through speculative storytelling, as well as its use of arbitrage (exploiting price discrepancies) and programmatic advertising. The aim of this chapter is to build on this analysis, moving beyond a single company and applying a consideration of financialization to the sector as a whole, mapping the many ways financial engineering enters into the music industries.

XREF: Connects to Vonderau's Spotify Teardown work, extending single-company analysis to sector-wide financialization.

Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, loc. 187