Is Artificial Intelligence a Creative’s Friend or Foe? How Creators can move with AI, not against it
AI is generating paradigm-shifting revenue opportunities and creative tools for musicians, writes Inder Phull of interactive music ecosystem PIXELYNX, and we’ve barely scratched the surface of what can be achieved.. Continue reading
What the National Association Of Broadcasters Show meant for music
The recent National Association Of Broadcasters (NAB) Show saw 65,000+ from 166 countries converge on the Las Vegas Convention Center. The centennial celebration featured over 1,200 exhibiting companies curated into. Continue reading
Bandsintown, Spotify add Microsoft Bing and ChaptGPT plugins
Microsoft went all in on ChapGPT this week, and two music companies – Bandsintown and Spotify – are helping to lead the charge. Microsoft’s Bing is now the default search. Continue reading
QUICK HITS: 25% off Soundfly • Easol Resale • DAAVI buys 2 AI music startups • boomboxio raises $7M
Soundfly, whose content is a favorite of the Hypebot community, is having a 25% off sale on the monthly and annual subscriptions to its extensive course offerings for musicians, through. Continue reading
SoundCloud lays off 8% of staff in an effort to ‘get to profitably’
SoundCloud announced today that it would lay off 8% of its staff. The cuts will affect about 40 and follow more extensive layoffs of 20% of staff in August of. Continue reading
Instagram to launch a Twitter competitor within weeks
Instagram is readying a June launch of the first direct competition to Twitter backed by a major tech firm. Upstarts like Mastodon and Bluesky have taken advantage of the chaos. Continue reading
Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Streaming growth and fraud • Insider Spotify stats • More
Episode 145 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. Episode 145 On this week’s edition of YMC,. Continue reading
REWIND: New music industry’s last week in review
Last week was a busy week by any definition, and the music industry was no exception, with TikTok testing an Apple Music integration YouTube about to go on trial, AI. Continue reading
Class action suit to open YouTube Content ID to artists going to trial
Chris Castle discusses the class action lawsuit led by seven-time Grammy winner jazz composer and band leader Maria Schneider that would force YouTube to give independent artists and labels diest. Continue reading
Chartmetric relaunches free OneSheet EPKs for musicians
Chartmetric has relaunched OneSheet, a simple-to-create, graphically pleasing, data-driven electronic promotional one-sheet for musicians. Chartmetric acquired the EPK startup last year. How One Sheet Works OneSheet automatically pulls stats from. Continue reading
