How Spotify Can Suck Less For Streaming Than YouTube

New numbers have revealed that YouTube is more popular than every other streaming service combined, and while there's some suspicion regarding these numbers, there remains a great deal that Spotify. Continue reading

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7 Tips For Turning Playlist Placement Into Long Term Streaming Activity

With streaming the dominant form of music consumption, landing a good playlist placement has become a Holy Grail for artists. In order to avoid flash in the pan popularity, however,. Continue reading

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Another Look At Spotify Promotion Service Playlist Push [Brian Hazard]

Brian Hazard of Color Theory revisits Playlist Push, a service designed to help independent artists with playlist placement and monetizing their music. Here he recounts his second experience using the. Continue reading

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Music Played More Often On YouTube Than All Other Platforms Combined

A new report out from IFPI has revealed some interesting news about the music economy. Apparently YouTube boasts more music plays than Spotify, Apple Music, and all additional streaming platforms. Continue reading

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TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot

This week on Hypebot, our most popular posts covered changes at DistroKid, how Spotify's claim that streaming habits mirror purchasing habits is false, how artists can avoid being boring, and. Continue reading

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Apple Music Extends Free Trial Beyond 3 Months

Apple Music is using a new weapon in its battle to overtake Spotify in the streaming music subscriber wars – extending the free trials of some new users beyond the. Continue reading

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Which Spotify Playlist Is The Most Important?

While the holy grail of playlist placement for many artists may be the curated front page playlists, the ones which they should be going after are the personalized algorithmically generated. Continue reading

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Free Streams On Spotify Pay 75% More Than YouTube, Paid Streams Pay 515% More

YouTube is increasingly under fire from labels and other creators upset over the size of its payments to creators.  A new study reveals details of this payment gap between YouTube. Continue reading

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THU. BRIEF: Spotify Gets Tight With Google • Discogs Passes 9M Releases • Sony Exec Joins SingularDTV • MORE

THURSDAY 10.5.17 Music Business News From Around The Web Sonos, Google, Spotify and Amazon just brought voice control to music in big way. I'm betting this is the killer app. Continue reading

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FRI. BRIEF: Calderone Out As Spotify Refocuses Video • UMG Streams $1.5B Q2 • Tencent Music Valued At $10B • More

Friday 9.1.17 Music Business News From Around The Web  After gaining little traction, Spotify is shifting it's video strategy to look more like Apple Music's. Updated continuously under our More News tab

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