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Amazon Music Will Now Come to Comcast Xfinity X1 Set-Top Boxes

Amazon Music Will Now Come to Comcast Xfinity X1 Set-Top Boxes

Daniel Sanchez
June 21, 2019
Amazon Music has scored its first major cable TV deal. The e-commerce company’s music service has confirmed Comcast will launch its music streaming service on high-end Xfinity X1 set-top boxes.  This marks i... Read More...
Amazon Will Spend $7 Billion This Year in Video and Music Content Alone

Amazon Will Spend $7 Billion This Year in Video and Music Content Alone

Daniel Sanchez
April 29, 2019
Can Amazon overtake rivals in both the streaming video and streaming music markets? In order to take on streaming video giant Netflix, Apple unveiled a $1 billion spending plan on original content. Unsurp... Read More...
Amazon Music's New Freemium Tier May Bite Into Spotify's Long-Term Advertising Strategy

Amazon Music’s New Freemium Tier May Bite Into Spotify’s Long-Term Advertising Strategy

Daniel Sanchez
April 19, 2019
Amazon’s freemium music service soft launch may force Spotify to reevaluate its own strategy to keep advertisers. In an interview published earlier this year, David Limp, Senior Vice President of Devices and... Read More...
Amazon Unveils Alexa Functionality with Ticketmaster

Amazon Unveils Ticketmaster Functionality in Alexa-Enabled Devices — Including Seat Selection

Daniel Sanchez
March 8, 2019
“Alexa, where are my Ticketmaster tickets?” Yesterday, Amazon unveiled a new feature – Song ID. Prime Music and Music Unlimited subscribers in the US can now easily identify a song’s title and artist. ... Read More...
Amazon Unveils Song ID, Telling Users What Song is Playing, But Only for US Echo Devices

Amazon Unveils Song ID, Telling Listeners What Song is Playing — Every Time

Daniel Sanchez
March 7, 2019
Amazon has made a brand-new innovative feature – Song ID – available for Prime Music/Unlimited subscribers. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Universal Music Group (UMG) CEO and Chairman Lucia... Read More...
What Streaming Music Services Pay (Updated for 2019)

What Streaming Music Services Pay (Updated for 2020)

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December 25, 2018
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Reported per-stream payouts from top music streaming services (updated for 2020; click to enlarge) Find out how much you’ll earn from the most popular streaming music services – Pandora, Napster, Spotify, App... Read More...

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Daniel Sanchez
August 16, 2018
Google creeps up on Amazon in the global smart speaker market. Strategy Analytics has found that Amazon shipped 4.8 million smart speakers in the second quarter of 2018.  The company now has a 41% market sha... Read More...

We Asked a Search Analytics Company to Tell Us the Most Popular Music Services

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June 11, 2018
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What are people really looking for? Spotify gets the most attention — and paying subscribers.  But if search analytics can predict the future, YouTube, Amazon, and Apple are just getting started. YouTube Mus... Read More...
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Latest Industry: BTS, Cardi B, Spotify, Amazon, Pandora, MSG, Viacom, Snapchat, More…

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April 27, 2018
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Compass poaches key music industry executives. Compass, a real estate tech company, has made several key hires from the music industry.  Matt Rosenberg, Eventbrite’s Chief Revenue Officer, will hold the same... Read More...
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April 19, 2018
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Vivendi isn't 'pulling a Sony' — but UMG might be going public. Vivendi CEO Arnaud de Puyfontaine stated that his group is a “strategic partner of Spotify.” He clarified that Vivendi has no intentions of sel... Read More...
Music Industry Latest: Guitar Center, Live Nation, Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple Music, Amazon Alexa

Latest Industry: Live Nation, SoundCloud, Apple Music, Amazon Alexa, YouTube, Guitar Center

Daniel Sanchez
April 13, 2018
A neural network on what you love to listen to. Music Audience Exchange (MAX) has unveiled its Artist Matching Engine.  The platform’s data model uses neural networks to map music tastes onto the demographic... Read More...
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