Are Press Releases Still Relevant For Music Marketing?
The press release has lost value in recent years as the web has opened up a wide range of communication channels that bypass traditional gatekeepers. Yet, despite the reduced role. Continue reading
UPDATED: Beats Buys Back HTC Shares For $265M, As Carlyle Group Invests $500M
UPDATE: The new Carlyle Group investment totals $500 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. No announcement was made of the stake the investment group gets in return, but it's. Continue reading
On Curating A Cure: The Impact Of Music Programming On Subscription Music
A guest post by Jon Maples, Vice President of Product-Content for Rhapsody. It used to be you seldom heard about "curation" outside of a museum or art history class, but these. Continue reading
Late To The Party, Iovine In Talks To Launch Beats Daisy Music Service With AT&T
It's not often that Interscope head and Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine is late an important party. But when it comes to streaming music, Iovine and Beats' yet to launch Daisy subscription. Continue reading
The Next Era Of The Music Business
Digital music is transforming the music industry and is rapidly picking up speed. More people are using streaming services and there are rumors that Apple is creating their own service.. Continue reading
Jimmy Iovine: Beats Music Service Will Share Listener Data With Artists
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. One of recording artists’ biggest complaints about every major music service, from iTunes to Spotify, is not about money — it’s about data. Maybe. Continue reading
How Can Jimmy Iovine Misrepresent Music Curation Without Undermining Music By Beats?
Jimmy Iovine's recent misrepresentation of the current state of music discovery, encapsulated in repeated assertions in multiple interviews on the theme that there is no human music curation by streaming. Continue reading
