starting your new business online is easy right? you should pay to some web host and all the world can get into your application.
So It's really weird that Spotify which is probably the biggest online music application in the world, doesn't offer service outside a few countries, here is a map where you can see the available countries.
But in the case of spotify, there is some complexity because Spotify is a legal platform to share music, you can use it for free but still the artists and the team get paid, so to launch Spotify in some country they say that they have to get a license to work and share those tracks inside that country and also make a good ads team to get some appropriate ads related to the new country.
but I think another reason is that they don't wanna spend money in a country which its people will not pay Spotify account fees, so we see on the map that spotify is only available in the rich countries and countries which is considered big in the music market.
Wow great post. Yes it is business sense to establish your business where you can get a return on investment, but a smart business owner can still make profits in a 'not too rich' country. What you require is just to figure out a way by brainstorming
indeed, I think that's how another platforms participate worldwide just like Apple music and DEEZER.
but spotify is a special case maybe they lack money lol