How Data is Redefining A&R’s Role In The Modern Music Industry
Although A&Rs are still looking for the same qualities in an artist as they were fifty years ago, what they’re looking for in that same artist’s data – and they. Continue reading
Bandcamp Sales Up 122% As CEO Offers Rare Look Inside The ‘Anti-Spotify’
In that last 30, days sales at indie music hub Bandcamp are up 122% year-over-year, according CEO Ethan Diamond who shared a rare look inside what the LA Times dubbed. Continue reading
YouTube Shorts Launches In Effort To Compete With TikTok
Although hugely popular with an important demographic, TikTok has been having a somewhat tumultuous time with the United States government of late and YouTube – smelling blood in the water. Continue reading
WED. BRIEF: SXSW 2021 Online • Capitol Promotes Osborne • Mint Talent Opens • More
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Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Spotify Promotion & Best Practices, Streaming Revenue Growth, More [EPISODE 6]
A new weekly episode of Your Morning Coffee: Weekly Music News for the New Music Business with Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart is live. Episode #6 Highlights In this week’s episode,. Continue reading
Is Livestreaming Silicon Valley’s Way Of Killing Live Music Venues? [OP-ED]
Music livestreaming is here to stay in a major way, and Big Tech companies wants to make sure they’re the ones steering the ship, writes Chris Castle. Op-Ed by Chris. Continue reading
Troy Carter, YouTube, Spotify, Show4me, More Free At Sandbox Summit Next Week
Next week, on September 21-25, 2020, Music Ally is hosting a virtual event for “anyone working within the music industry at whatever level.” The Sandbox Summit is free to attend. Continue reading
Pass The Mic: Karaoke Mode Likely Coming Soon To Spotify
It looks like live music could be returning – to your living room. A recently leaked screenshot gave us a sneak peak at what appears to be a new karaoke. Continue reading
Did Facebook, Instagram Actually Ban Music Livestreams? [Video]
The devastation which coronavirus has wrought on the live entertainment industry has left the music business understandably skittish, so it’s no surprise that an upsettingly vague announcement from Facebook that. Continue reading
Is It Time For Music Industry To Rethink Its Relationship With Gaming? [Karol Severin of MIDiA]
Music consumption, particularly in the West, is commoditized. Transforming from the economies of ownership to access and the removal of production and distribution barriers led to the devaluation of, not. Continue reading
