Live #SXSW Interviews: Spotify, Epitaph, CD Baby, TAG, Tommy Boy Exec & More
LiveMusicStage, a new online platform for live-streamed concerts, is launching the Austin Tech Talk Streaming Channel at SXSW Music. Music meets tech in live online broadcasts on Monday and Tuesday,. Continue reading
Ending Radio’s Free Ride
By David Macias, cofounder of Thirty Tigers. He's exploring this topic further at SXSW on the panel Still Hazy After All These Years: Performance Royalties and Terrestrial Radio. The Robinson-Patman Act. Continue reading
Another Direct Payment Deal For Clear Channel: eOne Music
Radio giant Clear Channel today announced a direct deal with independent label, distributor and marketer Entertainment One Music to share revenue from digital and terrestrial radio. eOne's music library includes. Continue reading
Robbins Entertainment Cuts Latest Clear Channel Direct Licensing Deal
Clear Channel has announced another direct licensing deal, this time with dance music label Robbins Entertainment. Founded by veteran urban record exec Cory Robbins, company's artists included Afrojack, D.H.T., Cascada¹s. Continue reading
MTV Announces “Artist To Watch” Music Discovery Campaign
MTV has unveiled a new list that they call simply “MTV Artist to Watch”, a new artist / music discovery initiative and campaign that spans across all of MTV’s television. Continue reading
Nielson Buys Arbitron For $1.26 Billion
Media ratings and research firm Nielson is buying competitor Arbitron for $1.6 billion. Regulators will certainly look closely at the deal, which combines the dominate ratings resource in TV (Nielson). Continue reading
12-12-12 Concert Attracts 19 Million Viewers, Details Of Funds Raised Expected Today
The 12-12-12 Concert, an effort aid those affected by Hurricane Sandy held on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at Madison Square Garden was the most widely distributed live musical event in. Continue reading
Last.fm Cuts Back Free Music Offerings
CBS paid a whopping $270 million for Last.fm in 2007. Since then, the media giant has failed to monetize the music service and seen competitors ranging from Pandora to Spotify. Continue reading
Clear Channel Quietly Downsizing Radio Stations Across U.S.
Since late 2011, Clear Channel Communications has been quietly shedding radio staff from stations around the country, with the latest round of layoffs seeing hundreds of CCE employees cut on. Continue reading
Data Science and the Music Industry: What Social Media Has To Do With Record Sales
Guest post by Liv Buli and Victor Hu for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Buli and Hu work for Next Big Sound, a music analytics company. Twenty years ago, as. Continue reading
