Tencent Music Reports $640M 2020 Net Profit
Spotify is still struggling to turn a profit. Not so for Tencent Music, China’s largest music streamer. Tencent Music has announced its financial results for 2020, revealing a dramatic increase. Continue reading
Spotify will not be offering penny per stream royalties to artists
In the wake of massive global protests by artist rights advocates at the company’s many offices, it appears Spotify is still unwilling to offer the much demanded ‘penny per stream’. Continue reading
How to host a virtual networking night for local bands, artists
As the pandemic persists, another challenge for the music industry is the inability to network and build new relationships. Virtual conference platforms could change that. Guest post by Seth Resler. Continue reading
Where music, gaming become one
As the video game industry continues to grow and develop at a rapid fire rate, it’s important to evaluate where the music business fits into all this, typically through sync. Continue reading
Has radio lost the battle for the ear? [Fred Jacobs]
As the landscape of audio continues to transform and reinvent itself (most recently with the rise of social audio), Fred Jacobs here muses on what these latest shifts could mean. Continue reading
Personalize your SMS using fun patterns, new cursors
Here, the good folks at Symphonic share of few of the delightfully whimsical new SMS options for cursors and backgrounds now being offered. Guest post by Randi Zimmerman of the. Continue reading
‘Oh no I’ve been hacked!’ plus other ‘funny’ accidents from Bobby Owsinski
Here producer/engineer and veteran music industry blogger Bobby Owsinski recounts his harrowing experience of getting hacked, and the ensuing challenge of regaining control his site. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski. Continue reading
How BandLab, other creator tools platforms could become social networks [MARK MULLIGAN]
“With all the growing interest and investment in creator tools companies, music production platform BandLab hitting 30 million users points to a longer-term future for the space – one in. Continue reading
‘Show me the money!’ -Artists, The MLC, and the meta-data hot potato
Rubber is about to meet the road for the Mechanical Licensing Collective, and come mid-April, there is one phrase that will be rolling off the lips every of songwriter and. Continue reading
Language and the gender gap: Power of words
The recent controversy surrounding the the renaming of the pro audio commerce website Gearslutz has been raising some important questions in the music and audio community about the gender gap,. Continue reading
