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YouTube Tells Musicians: “You Need to Make a Lot of Content”

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...from a discussion in Oslo with Jeroen Bouwman, manager of content partnerships for YouTube Music, as reported by Music Ally. "Nine out of 10 of our most-watched videos are music videos.  Music is a ty... Read More...
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Global Album Release Day: Indie Labels Say the IFPI Told them to ‘F*ck Off’

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A significant portion of the independent community voiced their disagreement with the IFPI's new Friday global release day. Many independents spoke up way ahead of time, but the IFPI moved forward with Frid... Read More...
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  1. They aren't creating a compelling, heartwarming story that works. Why did Spotify fire their PR agency?  The reason is that a lot of artists now hate them, including the most powerful artist in the world... Read More...
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Independent Labels Announce ’10 Point Action Plan’ Against YouTube…

Paul Resnikoff
January 27, 2015
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After an ugly set of exchanges involving independent artist Zoë Keating, Digital Music News, and YouTube last week (here, and here), a consortium of independent labels is now getting involved.  The European-bas... Read More...

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I got two emails from "Katherine Foster" within 10 minutes of each other to two separate email accounts - one which I haven't used in years. They both read: Subject: Missing Info Body: I have not yet received... Read More...

25 Reasons Why YouTube Doesn’t Care About Indies…

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These are the 25 most-watched music videos on YouTube in 2013.  Every single one of these artists is either signed directly to a major label, or signed to a label that is distributed through a major label. A... Read More...

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  YouTube has already inked lucrative licensing deals with Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment for the upcoming YouTube Music launch.  But according to dozens of in... Read More...

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This past Saturday I caught the Building Your Team panel at the ASCAP EXPO at the Loews Hollywood Hotel. The panel included entertainment attorney, Josh Binder Esq., artist manager, Marcus Grant from The Coll... Read More...

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  Last week, we reported that fan-created videos are getting more traffic than official artist videos.  Now, there's another eye-popping stat: according to data just shared by Tunecore, indie artist r... Read More...

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Online Music Community Rushmore Merges With Broadcasting Platform Zuzeen…

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Online music community Rushmore has merged with another startup, Zuzeen. Read our review of Rushmore here. Zuzeen is a live broadcasting platform for artists. The two companies have already worked together ... Read More...
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Amanda Palmer Is Now Defending Her Solicitation of Free Musicians…

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The question is why Amanda Palmer apologized and backed down in the first place, why she didn't stick to her values. September 13th, 2012: "Amanda Palmer, Kickstarter Millionaire, Asking Musicians to Play for... Read More...
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