6 Of 2016’s Key Music Marketing Trends
After such a tumultuous year, the music business community is anxious to see what 2016 has in store for them. In this article, we look at six marketing trends which are. Continue reading
Canary In A Coalmine: How Music Guides Other Industries
George Howard reflects on how the music business has, for good or for ill, often been one of the first industries to experience innovation, and how this will likely be the case for. Continue reading
Labels Still Don’t Get YouTube, At Their Expense [Mark Mulligan]
The consumption of music on YouTube has seen incredible growth of late, but if labels don't update how they're using the platform, they risk of being edged out by YouTube's. Continue reading
Attorney For $200M Spotify and Flo & Eddie Vs. Pandora, SiriusXM Lawsuits Says “Cases Are Related” [EXCLUSIVE]
Attorney Henry Geller is part of the legal team at Gradstein & Marzano that is pursuing both the new $200 million Melissa Ferrick suit vs.Spotify and Flo and Eddie's ongoing legal. Continue reading
Listomania: The Battle For Playlist Supremacy’s Winners And Losers
New Slang Media has recently released a new report detailing which labels and artists are coming out on top in the competitive world of playlisting, and what is about their strategy that. Continue reading
Soundcloud Cuts Universal Music Group Licensing Deal, Sony Still A Holdout
SoundCloud is much closer to launching a paid subscription service, thanks to a deal to licence the massive Universal Music Group catalog. But two of the world's largest music companies Sony. Continue reading
Universal Music Group Planning Virtual Reality Concerts
While the majority of VR content has, up to now, been focused on games and films, UMG and iHeartMedia have major plans in the works to release several VR concerts in. Continue reading
Blockchain Music, And Benji Rogers 75% Superb Idea [ANDREW DUBBER]
Here Andrew Dubber responds to Benji Rogers' recent piece discussing how the Blockchain and VR could be implemented to better organize and protect music moving forward. In this article, Dubber. Continue reading
SoundCloud Raises Additional $35 Million
This is a make or break year for SoundCloud. But the stars are aligning for the music tech startup, with more major licensing deals in place and new word that. Continue reading
Spotify Says 2nd Half Of 2015 Saw Fastest Subscriber Growth Ever, Despite Apple Music
It was a positive story amidst a week of bad news for Spotify. Minutes after news leaked that Apple Music had signed up an impressive 10 million paid subscribers in its. Continue reading