What’s Happening At Beatport Post SFX Bankruptcy
Following its recent bankruptcy, SFX Entertainment has been forced to put its subsidiary (and dance music industry giant) Beatport up for auction. Here we speak with the people at Beatport about. Continue reading
YouTube Set To Release Live Streaming App
Facebook is getting headlines this week for upgrades to its live video app; now YouTube is throwing its hat into the ring with the new YouTube Connect, and while its still. Continue reading
How Gen Z Uses Social Media And What That Means For Music Marketing
For artists looking to market to the Gen Z demographic, a new study by Fluent has revealed some interesting numbers around this particular group's social media habits and and how. Continue reading
YouTube, Google Play Reverse Course, Join T-Mobile’s “Binge On” Free Streaming Plan
Google has been a strong public supporter of net neutrality and critic of "throttling" which would favor specific content providers. Apparently, those standards don't apply to its own Google Play. Continue reading
68% Of Smartphone Users Stream Music Daily
Illustrating just how pervasive streaming music has become, a new study shows that 68% of smartphone users listen to an average of 45 minutes of streaming music daily. By comparison,. Continue reading
Sony Develops App For Streaming Royalty Reports
Sony Music has recently developed an app which allows artists to view exactly what their daily earnings from streaming royalties are, marking a move towards the royalty transparency which so many. Continue reading
Pandora Launches AMPcast: Free Direct To Fan Audio Messaging
Direct to fan massaging seems to be the theme of the day. This morning, Bandsintown launched a free direct messaging tool. Now, Pandora has announced AMPcast, a mobile app that allows. Continue reading
Are 15 Second Songs The Future Of Music? [Mark Mulligan]
As music messaging apps continue to grow in popularity, so too do the truncated versions of pop hits which accompany them, suggesting the traditional three minute song structure could soon be. Continue reading
Bandsintown Adds Free Direct To Fan Messaging, Passes 23M Users
New Bandsintown stats tout 23 million users. That's up 8 million from last year in a competitive sector that includes Songkick, BandPage, ReverbNation and others helping to spread concert dates. Continue reading
Rapper Ryan Leslie Scores $1.5M For Superphone Direct To Fan Commerce Startup
Ryan Leslie, who has produced tracks for Snoop Dogg, Cassie, Usher and others, coded the first version of Superphone to connect with and sell to his own fans via SMS. Now. Continue reading
