An Exclusive Interview with the CEO & COO | The Discogs Insider
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- Опубликовано: 29 фев 2024
- We are excited to announce the debut episode of The Discogs Insider! To kick off the series we sat down in person with their CEO, Kevin Lewandowski, and COO, Lloyd Starr to discuss the origins of the company, how it’s evolved over their 20+ year history, and where they see the industry of physical music heading in the future.
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G.I. you hit another Home Run with The Discogs Insider! Brilliant!
Thanks so much! Really appreciate you watching
Absolutely loved this!! Probably one of the best videos in the VC RUclips community
Glad you enjoyed it!
Discogs has helped me learn a massive more about my vinyl. It's amazing reading into the depth of information available.
Thank you Discogs and all the millions of users past, present and future for the contributions.
Yes!!!!
Yeah the fast amount of resources and information that's on there you can click on your your favorite pop or rock artists and sometimes you can find the first band they were ever in as a preteen or a teenager, for example Steven Tyler ( Stephen talerico is his birthday) he was in his first band as a teenager was called The chain reaction, I discovered that young Steven talerico did not want to be a singer he wanted to be a drummer but the band told him that he had to sing (can you imagine Aerosmith without Steven Tyler as its front man that was a wild fact to discover) they put out 2 45's on the date label and one on the 5th level in 1966 and then on verve in 1968, just a few years later they change their name to Aerosmith I think it was like in either 1970 or 1971 they changed their name to Aerosmith (without that just got information that someone put in there I would never have known that talerico was in a band as a teenager and he didn't want to be the singer, and I never would have discovered one of my favorite 60s garage Rock 45 * 11/11 free Aerosmith Steven Tyler, and then if you look up someone like Bruce Springsteen now you can't really buy that release because it's an acetate and they didn't make many acetate (a demo disc that wears down really quickly because it's just sprayed with a thin lacquer and if it's not stored in a cool place then the lacquer will ship off and then you'll just have a metal disk that you can't play) but even a young teenager named Bruce Springsteen had a teenage 60s garage rock band as his first musical entry over a decade before he put out his 70,.
It's good to see that they at least are putting eyes on the fraud part. It'll always be there, but it'll take a lot of resources to educate the buyers for what to lookout for and just prevention in general. Really good interview.
Thanks for watching!
Very good episode! Great interview!!!
Great interview, and it really makes me appreciate more what they have done for the community. Everyone wants to complain, but it is an amazing tool, and i appreciate their love.
Dang it, GI. This first episode is an absolute slam dunk. 10/10 content!! I needed this convo so bad.
WOW, thank you!
Excellent idea and interview, GI! Glad you were able to being this idea to fruition. Appears you have established a nice relationship with Kevin and Lloyd and glad they accepted to be part of this new series. Btw, nice pick of the Vinyl Lounge as the venue. 👍👍
Thanks Ken!
Knowledge is freedom.
Great interview, I'm on Discogs most of the hours I'm awake
You and me both! Thanks for watching
This was just fantastic. You did a great job interviewing them, and what a strong team those two are. Down to the expressions they make when the other is saying an admittedly really important thing that needs to sound good. Good public relations good optics good people. Thanks for making this happen dude
My pleasure! Just the start of a really cool collab
@@NTXVinyl haha be careful man touching greatness then asking for it to come to your daughters b day party is two different things!!
Great interview. I was very impressed that the company is still so small in respect to how many users are there. So while I understand the complaint of seller that they are now charged also for postage, I personally think it is much better compared to making the whole platform a subscription model. Otherwise who is paying for all the costs of the company.
Cheers my friend! Thanks for watching
Good video. Thanks for putting a face to Discogs. Also, good to hear what they are working on to make the experience better.
Thanks so much for checking it out!
Great interview! Always wanted to visit with the creators of Discogs. Excellent choice of questions and responses.
Thanks so much for watching!
Great interview. Good Q&A. Looking forward to more Discogs content!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was an absolutely fantastic video. So informative. Last year I spent 8 or 9 months cataloging my collection and It was an extremely rewarding experience. So good to put a face and some history behind the phenomena of Discogs.
Thanks so much for watching!
Amazing interview thanks.
I've been a discogs member since 2005 and love it.
Just recently started watching NTX videos. Cheers from UK
Cheers! Appreciate the comment
@@NTXVinylgreat interview, I've been on discogs since the later part of 2015 and I can't believe I didn't know about it before I had been collecting for 3 or 4 years at that point and been buying some records all the way back in 2006 and 2009 but not seriously just one or two here and there, anyway I don't know how I lived without discogs I can find out about music from around the world that I never would hear about otherwise.
Kudos GI!. Quite a feat and awesome quality and insight. Also, a great venue in a great town. Impressive first video. My hat is off to you.
Thanks so much! 🙏🏻
Great video, GI! Can't wait for the rest of them. It's great getting some additional perspective into a service so many people use but don't always get a view into the inner workings. Also, I LOVE that this happened in Denton!
Little-D!
Watched it twice before I commented! Thoroughly enjoyed this video and the information provided. My only complaint would be it wasn’t long enough! lol. I wanted so much more info and enjoyed the conversation, I didn’t want it to end. Totally looking forward to more episodes
So awesome to hear! More to come…..soon
Great video. I would love for Discogs to expand to include more social community aspects. Ways to comment and/or recommend on music.
Thanks so much! And an interesting suggestion. Seems natural for them to incorporate/social features. That said, could be a slippery slope. Would need lots of moderation to maintain the riff raff
@@NTXVinyl agree. This would need a lot of planning and execution. Perhaps some way to link to RUclips or the music on Spotify. One issue with the wanted process is the list of what is available to buy is filtered by the specific pressing buyers select. Some sort of generic version available to put on the want list would provide more purchasing options.
Cool interview. Discogs is great. Not perfect. But nothing is. So glad Discogs exists. Rock on
Thanks!
Really cool vid! Love hearing the origin story of such a useful app!
This is awesome! Can’t wait to see what they have in store. Great video GI!
Thanks so much for watching!
Very good. Discogs rocks. Remember Gemm?
wow, totally forgot about Gemm! Seriously from the way back machine.
A great interview! Thanks GI!
Cool that you got this interview…great video!
Thank you!
Great video! Can't wait to watch future episodes!
More to come! Thanks!
Congratulations brother!
Thanks!!
great interview!! so excited for this new series!!
Thanks so much for watching!
Great video/interview GI! I never knew how it was started and the history. Very cool!!
Thanks man!
Great video, Hope they are working on improving the simplicity of the shipping for new collectors / sellers like myself! Nice job interviewing GI!
Thanks so much!
Agreed. I gave up on selling on discogs because of this confusion. I lost money on every sale I made because of international shipping. Ebay has solved this problem, so I know it can be done.
Great job. Good advice to beginners. Thanks!
This was a nice surprise, great interview!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great interview - can you PLEASE ask them to fix the situation with live records, interview disks, etc making some artists page almost unusable? For an extreme example, see Pearl Jam.
You can send Discogs your own feedback and ideas
@Matasky2010 but does the CEO read the feedback suggestions...I'm guessing...NO.
A good example of a company that got lucky in the sense of 'right time' for the venture. It is a useful resource for collectors and buyers. On the negative side customer service is not ideal - 1-3 weeks for a reply to a question, those who assess feedback disputes do not appear to read the conversation between buyer/seller (suggests more staff, or better 'quality' staff are needed) and the shipping policies are hard to navigate. I'd like to know their profit/s, as it does present as a company that 'cuts corners' at times!
Thanks for watching!
Fantastic interview…great job GI!
Thanks so much!
Very interesting!
Glad you think so!
Great show, great idea. Subscribed and waiting for more👍✌
Awesome, thank you!
Love Discogs and can’t live without it. I would love to see a field called purchase price so that I can see the price appreciation or depreciation over time. Not that I buy records as an “investment” because that’s too speculative for me. This field would just be a curiosity field for conversation.
Great suggestion!
Very informative interview, if I could have made 1 request of the CEO; as a collector, when I pull up the master release page of an album, I'd like to see the original issue, first pressing of the album always listed first.
In which format? From what country?
And many times a “first” pressing isn’t able to be defined, so what does it default to?
…. not as cut and dry as you’d think
Ahh yes, good point. What I was thinking about when I wrote that was all the conflicting info about "first pressings" of the Actuel series on the BYG label. Perhaps what I should have said is that anyone who submits a release should not be able to state "this is the original issue/first pressing", without running into some kind of checkbox saying "are you an authority/what is your supporting evidence/this needs to be checked, etc.@@NTXVinyl
Excellent interview.
Thanks so much!
Super, great start !! ❤
Thanks sir!
Nostalgia comes to a screeching halt eventually. Great video. Might have to watch this a couple times
Does it? I actually find myself appreciating the past more and more as I get older. Especially in regards to music. Thanks for watching!
@@NTXVinyl He was talking about the 60+ year old growing market. Eventually they suddenly stop buying. Your and my (similar age) vinyl buying isn't for nostalgia reasons at this point in our lives. Buying GI Joe figures or Garbage Pail Kids would be because of nostalgia. There won't be a repeat nostalgia buying pattern for our age group unless its for CDs which is sort of happening
That’s an awesome interview. I learned a lot and the tips at the end were very useful. Many thanks for doing it! 👍🙏
Glad it was helpful! And thanks for watching
Great video. Love all the ntx videos on here
Glad you like them!
Great vid, man. And really enjoy your Whatnot shows!
Thanks so much!
@@NTXVinyl maybe in Part 2 you can get into why Discogs is just a notch below eBay on how they treat their sellers. Taking 12% right off the top, and then adding a PayPal partner fee, makes it difficult for me to sell my records there. It's the main reason I went to Whatnot.
Good job G.I. 👍
Thank you! 😃
Awesome! Keep it up!
Thanks! Will do!
Love this website
Great watch
Appreciate it!
As a seller hate the introduction of fees on shiiping costs by discogs.
As a seller. I do as well.
Excellent interview 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love Discogs, just a question as they seem to have an exchange with the various labels. I'm surprised how many albums even from the mid to late 80s were never released on CD, especially pop/rock/AOR/hardrock/metal or shelved albums that never saw the light of day. Would be cool to be able to flag those albums that we would like to be released on CD.
Discogs would do some of us a favour by enabling users to upload an Excel spreadsheet list of our records. It just takes too long to enter a big collection otherwise.
I would like to see a feature that would sort my collection by value.
That would be awesome!
26:03 - This feature to filter label pages by role E.g. label credits for Distribution, Publishing, Licensed To/From and so on went live today and it's looking good.
I hope the forthcoming wantlist updates puts an end to the constant spamming (deliberate or otherwise) of the wantlist by sellers taking down and re-uploading their stock. This has been something users have been begging for since practically when the marketplace was created in 2005. Also the ability to filter that wantlist email by country, price of item and so on.
People have also been crying out since almost day one for the ability to make a given seller be non-visible on wantlist emails - not sure it's in Discogs interest to do that but you never know...
Great feedback! Appreciate you watching
Came here to read comments from people who refused to read or follow the submission guidelines and was not disappointed.
Great vid seeing those behind the DISCOGS. As a 53yr collector on Connie Francis i have found a much after release through it and i'm happy. I'd like to offer an idea that would benefit record companies and collectors and that is a offshoot or a branch and call it SESSIONOGGS where it is a massive database on ALL artists sessions etc, because there isn't one.I have made a template for it. It mainly is a template to gather all the information on his/her session details. Something like Michel Ruppli etc but in more detail. I started in 2004 with my Artist Connie Francis from 1955>
Cool idea! Thanks for watching
GI: great interview, thank you for doing this! My only critique would be that Discogs is about all music formats, not only vinyl. ;)
Wantlist: the advice Lloyd gave is surprisingly bad! :) OK, it makes sense to certain collectors, but is terrible advice to many others and sadly it tells me that they might not want to give technical help for those who have a different approach to wantlists and collecting than they imagine people should. The problem with a narrowed down list is that it will not help at all, when you want to buy multiple items from a seller with over 5 thousand items. (Under that number I tend to go over the full list). If you had a very wide wantlist you could list all the items the seller has from that list. If this list were tailored down to the essential stuff and you are also picky about pressings* than the chances of this seller having other items from your list is very small, you're missing out on other things you might want in your collection. You either miss out, or you browse through that horribly huge inventory.
I used to have a tailored wantlist, but now I have a list with 2800 items in it. If you add every release in a master release, then this numbers grows quickly.
Only downside to my approach is that I have turn off notifications, because they are too large and too often. Although there are certain items, that are less common that I want to receive notifications for. It would be best if we could somehow differentiate between wanted items: items I want to be notified after and items I don't.
* CD collectors aren't as picky. General music fans aren't as picky. They want the album on a preferred format in good condition and that's all. That means dozens or hundreds of pressings are good enough per an album that was popular enough to receive several different pressings and repressings.
more the vinyl?!? No way 😜
Is there an instructional video on submissions? I have many selections that don't match or are very close. I'm new to the platform and want to make sure that I am submitting my work correctly. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Not sure about a video. But this should help: support.discogs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004051893-Quick-Start-Guide-For-New-Contributors
@@NTXVinyl thanks!
Who do i speak to in discogs concerning copyright infringement?
Great video, but the CEO seemed a little distant at times while the COO was very personable and engaging. Look forward to the next installment.
Some people shine on camera, others are a bit more reserved. Just different personalities. And thanks for watching!
Please, please make a premium subscription model for Discogs for heavy users that want more intuitive features for shopping and recommendations!
That would be cool!
They list tapes and CDs too
And reels, and dvds, and 8-tracks, and mini discs, and any/every other form of physical media. But vinyl is the vast majority of the focus of their business - and the database reflects that
You should ask why the app in 2024 still looks and feels like a 2010 app
What a cool interview with these two very interesting founders. Interviewer could talk a lot less.
Thanks! I’ll try to shut up more 😉
I’m a CD only collector and buyer living in Thailand and getting more fed off by seller’s shipping rates. To ship a single CD from Europe or USA, the rates vary from acceptable 5-10 $ to batsh*t crazy 1000$. For 1000$ the seller could fly to Bangkok, stay 2 nights at a luxury Hotel, dine in the best Restaurants and still have enough change to visit the surroundings. Will there ever been done something about that?
At least you can still buy. They stopped Singapore buying and selling last year. No idea why.
I need some assistance in publishing, marketing, and distribution on discogs, which one of you dudes can assist in finding me a honest and loyal partner to represent the showahs purple inc record label trademark brand with hands logo and weed in deed music 🎵 studio productions?
Imagine how lost we'd be if Discogs crashed one day....AHHHHHHH!!!
right?!?! No way I could run my business without it
how big in US-Dollars is the Discogs today ?
I would guess, beaucoup..
Like...the value of the company?
@@NTXVinyl yes....
exactly, what their value ?
i meant now....
Records from the showahs purple inc record label was found publishing illegally on discogs.
Need autheticator and its game on
Records/Vinyl will be down to a trickle again by 2030. You heard it here first
Thanks for the breaking news. But actually, I’d argue they already are a trickle
I’d like to ask them why we can’t buy from Singapore anymore… no clear answers out there.
The only thing keeping Discogs around is thst it exists. A bedroom project thst got out of hand and needs to be in the hands of better coders and have a more standard/professional data approach. I left it be.
I need to know who is Julia Titus AKA jaygrah, what does she do, and what position she hold in discogs???
Hey there dudes, good afternoon! I heard it utter in the interview that discogs is the largest vinyl collector in the world, but you have not a contribution from my showahs purple inc record label, golden island 2007 vinyl record. That's why I'm trying to find out, who is Julia Titus AKA jaygrah who was found selling my music 🎵 productions on discogs, who claim to be the owner of discogs?
The background music wasn’t necessary.
So sorry to disrupt your life
@@NTXVinyl lol the small chain of antique mall records shop guy comes out swinging
I actually liked the background music. Not intrusive at all, and added a bit of energy. Great video too--big thanks!!!
@@tlar9572thanks!
The music is fine. Mighta sounded like a cafeteria or library without it.
Used to be a great platform for buying and selling, recently it's become a joke. Ridiculously Expensive fees and shipping costs. Greedy as hell. Stop it.
I hate to break it to you sir, the mainstream media is saying that inflation is only like 7 or 8 it's actually 17.05 that means that even shipping and selling fees are going to cost more because no one can afford to live anymore unless you have bookoo books unlike in early 2020 and before where inflation was only 1.04%