Hypebot Presents The Upward Spiral Podcast: Episode 7 [LISTEN]

Hypebot presents the seventh episode of The Upward Spiral Podcast, an ongoing discussion of the new music industry featuring Kyle Bylin of Live Nation Labs (and former Hypebot Editor), music industry consultant Jason Spitz (Former Director of Marketing at Topspin), and Hypebot's Hisham Dahud (also of Fame House). They launched the podcast as a platform for conversations about the issues that face artists and music professionals.

In this episode, Jason and Hisham explain how artists can leverage partnerships to gain access to new fans (a la Billy Van and BitTorrent). Kyle then leads a deep discussion on "Why do music start-ups die?" feeding off WahWah.fm's recent demise. 

All this plus news on Google, Spotify, Beck and much more!

Listen to Episode 7:

Glossary of items mentioned in this episode:

• Spotify Adds "Thumbs Up" to Radio
• Google to Penalize Piracy Sites in Search Results 
• Beck's New Album to be Released as Sheet Music
• Billy Van/BitTorrent Case Study
• Wahwah.fm Killed by Licensing
• This Is My Jam
• Google Tasks
• Scramble With Friends
• Ptch

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