Musician’s Guide To Using Instagram Live
As the popularity of live streaming continues to grow across many a social media platform, Instagram is no exception. Instagram Live provides artists with a great way to trot out. Continue reading
Plagiarism Or Inspiration? It’s A Fine Line
By this time, we have grown accustomed to some degree of familiarity in the music we hear, particularly as sampling and covering songs continues to be a popular and ever-easier. Continue reading
What Happens When Drake Brings You On Stage, A SoundCloud Success Story and More
A new London Rapper gets a sweet, sweet Drake boost, a new Latin artist takes the salsa community by storm, a developing SoundCloud success story and much more bubbling up. Continue reading
On Getting Sync Placements: An Interview With North Star Media’s John Sepetys
[UPDATED] In this interview Senior Vice President of A&R at North Star Media John Sepetys offers artist advice on how to approach music supervisors, and what they are looking for. Continue reading
Facebook Hires YouTube and Google Play’s Tamara Hrivnak To Head New Global Music Strategy
Facebook has been without a real music strategy, much to the dismay of both the industry and unpaid musicians. That may finally be about to change with the hiring of. Continue reading
YouTube Led Google’s 22% Growth, $26 Billion Q4. Maybe They Can Share More Of It With The Music Industry?
The music industry has recently its ire recently on YouTube and its payments to rightsholder. In a quarterly earnings call this week, the CFO of parent company Alphabet (aka Google). Continue reading
Enter NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest – Just 5 Days Left!
Playing Tiny Desk Concerts – stripped down performances at the NPR office – has become a right of passage for any band releasing a public radio friendly album. Each year. Continue reading
How To Use Pandora AMP To Score 50,000 Video Views In 3 Days
Here Kevin Breuner of the band Smalltown Poets details how he was able to use artist data in as a means of scoring over 50,000 video views in just three. Continue reading
YouTube Pays Indies 10% Of What Spotify Does, says Merlin CEO
[UPDATED] One of the many current battles between tech and the music industry is the size and fairness of YouTube payments to creators and rightsholders. Charles Caldas, the CEO of. Continue reading
YouTube Launches New Chat Feature
Following months of testing, it appears YouTube is finally dipping chat feature toe in the water. Canada is thus far the only country lucky enough to have access to the. Continue reading
Oscar Nominees 2017 – The Full List
The 2017 nominees for the Oscars were announced this morning. The 2017 Academy Awards will be February 26th and air on ABC. Here is the full list of 2017 Oscar. Continue reading
