{"id":1204879,"date":"2023-11-20T17:46:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T22:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204879"},"modified":"2023-11-20T17:46:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T22:46:46","slug":"spotify-reportedly-struck-a-special-deal-with-google-that-let-it-skip-play-store-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204879","title":{"rendered":"Spotify reportedly struck a special deal with Google that let it skip Play Store fees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spotify struck a special deal with Google that lets it pay no commission to Google when people sign up for subscriptions using the music streaming service\u2019s own payment system on Android, according to new testimony in the ongoing Epic v. Google trial first reported<\/a> by The Verge<\/em>. As part of the same deal, Spotify paid Google just four percent commission if users signed up for the service through Google, far less than most other apps which typically pay 15 percent for subscriptions through the Google Play Store.<\/p>\n

\u201cListening to music is one of [the phone\u2019s] core purposes\u2026 if we don\u2019t have Spotify working properly across Play services and core services, people will not buy Android phones\u201d, Google\u2019s partnerships head Don Harrison reportedly said in court. Both Google and Spotify also agreed to put $50 million each in a \u201csuccess fund\u201d as part of the deal.<\/p>\n

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The remarks were made as part of a lawsuit first filed against Google by Epic Games, the maker of the wildly popular Fortnite<\/em>, in 2020. Epic claimed that Google\u2019s Play Store on Android was an illegal monopoly that forced app makers to part with huge sums of cash in exchange for offering users in-app purchases through the Play Store. Epic filed<\/a> a similar lawsuit against Apple in 2021, which it lost.<\/p>\n

Spotify initially supported Epic in its fight against Google and Apple. But in 2022, the company started using<\/a> a Google program called User Choice Billing that let Android apps use their own payment systems in exchange for giving a reduced cut to Google. The special deal revealed in court showed that Google was willing to carve out even more exceptions for popular apps like Spotify.<\/p>\n

Google has had some pretty big business secrets spilled in the last few days. Last week, an economics professor testifying on behalf of the company in a separate antitrust trial that has since wrapped up, revealed<\/a> that Google pays Apple 36 percent of all ad revenue it generates through Apple\u2019s Safari browser, a figure which Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai later confirmed<\/a> while he was testifying in the Epic v. Google trial.<\/p>\n

The Verge<\/em> also reported earlier this month that Google offered Netflix, another popular streaming service, a custom deal<\/a>. It offered a reduced commission of 10 percent, which Netflix turned down \u2013 instead choosing to not offer users a way to sign up for Netflix directly within its Android app.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/spotify-reportedly-struck-a-special-deal-with-google-that-let-it-skip-play-store-fees-224646377.html?src=rss
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