Search Results for: "spotify"

What Is Music Publishing? Here’s a Detailed Breakdown

February 28, 2014

What is music publishing, anyway? The following guest post comes from Budi Voogt, an artist manager, label owner and Soundcloud enthusiast expert. He writes about music marketing and the industry on his blog... Read More...

A Map of the Most Distinctive Bands In America…

Nina Ulloa

February 25, 2014

If you want a better idea of unique music tastes across the United States, then take a look at this map. Paul Lamere, Director of Developer Platform at The Echo Nest, created the map and posted it on his blog... Read More...

Need a Complicated Way to Make Group Playlists? Try Crowdcast…

Nina Ulloa

February 21, 2014

So you're at a party and everyone has music they want to hear. How do you solve this problem? Everyone with Spotify Premium could download Soundrop. You could try out the Bitcoin jukebox. Or you could just be... Read More...

SoundFocus Raises $1.7 Million to Help the Hearing Impaired Listen to Music…

Nina Ulloa

February 20, 2014

An excessive number of new music apps are securing funding these days. However, only a few of these apps are working to provide accessibility to a wider range of users. Enter SoundFocus... SoundFocus has... Read More...

No One Wants To Talk Numbers When It Comes To Streaming Revenue. Well, Here Are Mine

Ari Herstand

February 20, 2014

The following is by a NYC based independent artist Ron Pope. It originally appeared on the Huffington Post. I profiled him in How 10 Musicians Make Good Livings In Today's Music Industry. My name is Ron ... Read More...

7 Streaming Winners, and 7 Streaming Losers…

Paul Resnikoff

February 19, 2014

If streaming is the future of music, is it a future that benefits you? 1. Major Labels. They are making hundreds of millions in upfront licensing payments from streaming services, drawing huge royalty... Read More...

Streaming Services Will Never Become Profitable, Study Finds…

Paul Resnikoff

February 18, 2014

If the future of music is streaming, then it's a disastrously unprofitable one. That's according to a blunt financial finding from Generator Research, which concludes that streaming services as currently str... Read More...

Supper Successfully Pairs Recipes and Playlists…

Nina Ulloa

February 14, 2014

Food and music go together naturally. Supper. (which confusingly has a period in their name) has built a Spotify app based on this fact, but they're not the first ones to explore this relationship. Turntable ... Read More...

YouTube and Pandora Control 65% of all Streaming Music In the US…

Paul Resnikoff

February 13, 2014

If streaming music is the future, then who gets to own that future? According to data recently released by NPD Group, both YouTube and Pandora are utterly dominating music streaming in the US, with players lik... Read More...

If Your Music Service Isn’t Free, It’s Probably Dying…

Paul Resnikoff

February 11, 2014

You can still charge for live concerts, t-shirts, vinyl, and satellite radio. For almost everything else, if it's not free, it's probably not doing so hot. Consider these examples: Free Service... Read More...

BeatStars Is a Marketplace and Distribution Service For Producers…

Nina Ulloa

February 10, 2014

BeatStars, a marketplace and distribution service for producers, is out of open beta. Here's how it works: producers can upload and sell their beats on BeatStars and on Facebook. They offer distribution to... Read More...

The 13 Most Artist-Unfriendly Companies In the World…

Paul Resnikoff

February 7, 2014

There are many companies that genuinely care if you succeed as an artist. These are not those companies. (1) Pandora Pandora cares about making Pandora extremely rich... and what's wrong with that? The pr... Read More...

SRR Capital Launches With a VC-Style Approach to Music Investing

What Is Attribution?

So Busy With "The Quiet Time..."

Netflix Won the Streaming Wars. YouTube Changed the Rules.

Indonesia: One of the World’s Most Promising Digital Music Markets

What Politicians Could Learn from the Music Business: A Midterm Election Primer

What Is Music Publishing? Here’s a Detailed Breakdown

A Map of the Most Distinctive Bands In America…

Need a Complicated Way to Make Group Playlists? Try Crowdcast…

SoundFocus Raises $1.7 Million to Help the Hearing Impaired Listen to Music…

No One Wants To Talk Numbers When It Comes To Streaming Revenue. Well, Here Are Mine

7 Streaming Winners, and 7 Streaming Losers…

Streaming Services Will Never Become Profitable, Study Finds…

Supper Successfully Pairs Recipes and Playlists…

YouTube and Pandora Control 65% of all Streaming Music In the US…

If Your Music Service Isn’t Free, It’s Probably Dying…

BeatStars Is a Marketplace and Distribution Service For Producers…

The 13 Most Artist-Unfriendly Companies In the World…