Record deals and music industry economics
Subject in Music
Record deals and music industry economics has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including TED Radio Hour. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Yancey StricklerCo-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter, writer and musician
Strickler proposed that records made by A Corp bands would be joint ventures co-owned by the band and label.
“I think their record would be like a joint venture co-owned by the band and the label at which they are both putting in some money or labor”
TED Radio Hour: The price of creativity (Aug 14, 2026) · Listen from 27:00
Strickler argued that labels and studios treat artists as service providers who create assets for larger entities to capitalize on.
“artists are essentially service providers who create assets that these larger entities acquire and capitalize on”
TED Radio Hour: The price of creativity (Aug 14, 2026) · Listen from 24:43
Podcasts
- TED Radio Hour · 1 episode
Episodes
The price of creativityTED Radio Hour · Aug 14, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler about the history of creativity, the creator economy, and his proposed artist corporation (A Corp).