Media that covers music business news, music marketing and music tech is putting more and more of its content behind paywalls. But Hypebot provides 100% free music business news and always will.
This is not a criticism of other platforms. They are doing what they need to do to survive in the face of the obstacles that will see more than a third of all US newspapers go out of business before the end of 2025.
Hypebot, launched 20 years ago to explore the changing music business, has continuously operated as a lean labor of love. With Alana Bonilla’s help, I mix daily original journalism alongside republished stories from expert sources.
We’ve been helped in that effort by the most genuinely artist-centric company I know, Bandsintown, who acquired Hypebot in 2019.
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Bruce Houghton is the Founder and Editor of Hypebot, a Senior Advisor at Bandsintown, President of the Skyline Artists Agency, and a Berklee College Of Music professor.
