This Week In Music Commentary
This week we heard from Cooking Vinyl's founder about the company's unprecedented success, listened to some discussion regarding the changing face of A&R, and explored how blockchain tech and virtual reality. Continue reading
What I Learned About The Record Industry By Carsharing With A Millenial
Today's generation of young adults has rarely, if ever, had to pay for music, having grown up during the reign of the illegal MP3, and now living in the golden age of freemium. Continue reading
Streaming Won, But Where’s The Innovation?
Although music streaming, the most disruptive technologycurrently being used in the industry, is well on its way to becoming the dominant method through which listeners consume music, it has not. Continue reading
CHANGES @ Crowdmix • Huka Entertainment • APA • TriPlay
Crowdmix, the well funded and buzzed about app that will "connect the world through music," has appointed Dick Wingate as President, Artist & Entertainment Services NA. Wingate, who spent time. Continue reading
Spotify Launches “Fan Insights” Free Artist Analytics Platform
Imagine if an artist could concentrate their touring only where your fans are? Imagine music marketers could concentrate more effort into magnifying new fan interest as it happened? These are. Continue reading
Global Digital Music Distributor ONErpm Adds Free Analytics, Logs 30% Month-On-Month 2015 Streaming Growth
[UPDATED] Increasingly, analytics are driving music industry decision making. But access to good data does not come easily. So global distributor ONErpm has built a one of a kind analytics dashboard. Continue reading
THE PITCH: Byta – Securely Send And Receive Digital Audio
Today's PITCH comes from Byta, a freemium service for securely sending and receiving digital audio. Like all startups making their Hypebot debut on THE PITCH, Byta has 100 words to. Continue reading
YouTube To Unveil More Details Of Paid Service This Wednesday
To paraphrase The Kinks, I'm so tired, tired of waiting, tired of waiting for YouTube to launch their paid subscription service. But it looks like, while we may not yet. Continue reading
