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Things I Hate Hearing About The Music Business [Ethan Kaplan]
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In this article, Ethan Kaplan takes on what he feels are some of the main misconceptions regarding the current state of the music industry, with specific regard to Apple Music, the dismissal of EDM, and the importance of music and music discovery in people's day to day lives. Guest Post by Ethan Kaplan on Medium The running list of things that I hate hearing about the music business I recently ventured to SF Music Tech, and ran into a familiar ...
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SaaSing The Music Business [Ethan Kaplan]
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What does the shift to a streaming music economy mean for the industry as a whole? As the business changes and SasS (Software as a Service) providers become the dominant players, artists will have to work hard to remain relevant. By Ethan Kaplan General Manager / SVP of Music at Gracenote. This first appeared on TechCrunch.com The music business is about to undergo another seismic shift. And Apple’s streaming service is the tsunami that will force the industry to rebuild. ...
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Ethan Kaplan: Culture is a Product
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Guest post by former Warner Bros. Records digital exec Ethan Kaplan of Live Nation Labs. He blogs at Black Rim Glasses. A year ago I walked out of the Warner Bros. Records building, put a box in my car and drove home. I left with a collection of memories, but also a sense of unfinished business that I intended to keep in mind when I started my next venture. When it started becoming apparent what my next venture would be, ...
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Warner Music Group Tech Guru Ethan Kaplan Exits
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Ethan Kaplan, the popular SVP of Emerging Technology for Warner Music Group has left the company. Kaplan has not announced where he'll land, but he will continue running the R.E.M. fan site Murmurs.com. While praising his team, Kaplan was also not without criticism: “This business is changing, and one of the things that has always remained constant for five years is the entropy inherent to half century old company having its very foundations seismically shift," said Kaplan “We worked to ...
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"To Me, Data is the New Asset Base," Says Ethan Kaplan, SVP of Emerging Technology at WMG. PT. 2
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This is part two of my interview with Ethan Kaplan, who is author of the semi-famous music industry blog BlackRimGlasses and SVP of Emerging Technology at WMG. In the second segment, Kaplan talks about his perspective on embracing as much chaos as the record and music industries can stand, artists and their attitudes towards new technologies, and the great reset that's occuring throughout the digital music sector. KB: In his latest book Cognitive Surplus, tech-evangelist Clay Shirky urges companies and ...
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"My Goal is to Never Be Left Behind," Says Ethan Kaplan, SVP of Emerging Technology at WMG. PT. 1
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(UPDATED) Recently, I spoke with Ethan Kaplan, who describes himself as a former academic, a former newspaper web-master and a present day technological evangelist and innovator. He's also author of the semi-famous music industry blog BlackRimGlasses and started an REM fan-club called Murmurs when he was sixteen. As of late, Kaplan was newly promoted SVP of Emerging Technology at WMG's U.S. sales and retail marketing company. In part one of this interview segment, Kaplan talks about his new position at ...
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One Track Mind: Ethan Keller "Fallen Idol" (2010)
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By Pico “All eyes on the judges, who tabulate the score..." So where are we on this whole American Idol saga, anyway? I heard that Simon Cowell and Ellen Degeneres had vacated their judges' chairs (this was the first I've heard of Degeneres even being on the show). And Kara DioGuardi was fired. Just the other day Aerosmith front-man Steven Tyler reportedly agreed to fill in one spot, while Jennifer Lopez is supposedly making outrageous demands to fill in the ...
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One Track Mind: Ethan Keller "Rock and Rock Will Save Your Soul" (2010)
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By PicoWe've used this space for bringing telling the world about the recorded accomplishments of artists both popular and obscure, and for us, at least, the talented ones who haven't emerged yet are usually the ones that are most fun to write about. With those types, there's a greater chance you're telling the story to people who hadn't heard it before and nothing can make a music critic glow with pride if said artist since hits the big ...
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