Two music industry executives said Apple had been considering such a subscription service for years, but could never agree on the right revenue split with labels.
Hotels and airlines have massaged prices for years to get the right revenue-and-profit mix, a practice known as yield management.
They managed to scrape out an investment from Javelin, but the founders were convinced that they needed to find the right revenue number to make the business work with or without a capital infusion.
Playlister has been enthusiastically endorsed by the British music industry, which will benefit from increased performing rights revenues from the big music streaming partners.
A combination of closing the footballing knowledge gap with western Europe and increased TV rights revenues have also been a game-changer.
When you realize that the billions spent come from Brazil's public funds, and all ticket and media rights revenues made from the Cup go directly to FIFA without taxation (which is true of every World Cup), the public unease seems inevitable.
In the 1960s the IOC was still taking just 5% of the Games' rights revenue.
Why do the arena operators keep the naming-rights revenue for what the state calls a publicly owned arena?
Almost all the growth in their revenue last year came from national sources — television broadcast rights, revenue from ticket sales during road games and so on.
Amateurism was abandoned, a blind eye was turned to doping and ever more rights revenue was skimmed from host cities and sporting committees.
