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Paid Audio Streaming Gowing 9X Faster Than Ad-Supported To Drive U.S. Music Consumption In 2016
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HypeBot
Paid subscription audio streaming grew almost 9 times faster that free ad-supported audio stream last year. That's encouraging news for a music industry concerned with the revenue that streaming generates. Pandora's Glenn Peoples breaks down the stats. By Glenn Peoples of Pandora 2016 figures show the U.S. music industry grew at a good clip thanks mainly to growth in premium streaming services. The results were released this week by BuzzAngle in its “2016 U.S. Music Industry Report” (download PDF here). Keep ...
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YouTube Adopting New Tool For Faster, More Accurate Royalty Payments
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HypeBot
Good news for artists on YouTube, it looks as though the service will soon be implementing a new data standardization tool which will help artists get clearer information regarding views and payments, as well as providing more accurate and efficient royalty accounting. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 One of the things that bugs artists, songwriters and labels about YouTube is that it’s pretty difficult to get precise information about views and payments. In many cases, views aren’t counted and in ...
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5 Expert Tips for a Faster, Stronger Music Website
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HypeBot
By Damian Burke, web developer and editor of The Doughnut, from the Sonicbids Blog. This third installment is aimed at musicians who have a basic understanding of SEO, access to their hosting and content management system (e.g. Wordpress, Drupal), and don’t mind getting their hands dirty with a little bit of code. If you’re new to this series on search engine optimization (SEO), you may want to check out An Intro to SEO for Musicians Part 1 and Part 2 ...
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US Gov't Says Music Depreciates 3x Faster Than Movies
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HypeBot
By Jay Frank (@Repojay), Owner and CEO of DigSin. How fast does music depreciate? Try three times as fast as movies. This isn't quantified by me just making a random statement. This is actually what the US government is saying. Now, before we get to the “huff-and-puff" part that the internet likes to flame over, let's talk about the positive. Starting on July 31st, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis will be restating and recalculating how they come up with ...
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SoundCloud Raises $10 Million in Venture Funding to Scale Faster and Expand in U.S.
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HypeBot
Last week, RootMusic received $2.3 million to help musicians build better Facebook pages and trueAnthem raised $2.9 million to take another shot at making ad-supported music market work. Then, X5 Music, a Swedish digital-only record label, landed $9 million in funding to help them expand into the U.S. market. Now, SoundCloud has announced receiving $10 million in a funding round led by Index Ventures and Union Square Ventures.* Interviews with Fred Wilson and Mike Volpi below: The company intends to use this money to scale ...
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Adam Sullivan's Gripping CD 'The Room is Spinning Faster' Evokes Billy Joel, Rundgren
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Seth Cohen PR
Loneliness and Loss Taunt Hope and Connectedness on Adam Sullivan's Gripping 'The Room Is Spinning Faster' Songs as Pages from a Travel Diary, as Life on the Road Provides Both Melancholy and Inspiration On Adam Sullivan's gripping new CD 'The Room is Spinning Faster,' the singer/songwriter/pianist delivers a dramatic range of original songs that at times evoke the understated cinematic landscapes of '70s-era Billy Joel, the sense of heartache in Todd Rundgren's iconic 'Hello It's Me,' and a flair for ...
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A Faster WI-Fi Format Aims to Eliminate Most Wires
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Michael Ricci
Ready to cut the cord? The next generation of Wi-Fi technology could make most wires obsolete. The Wi-Fi Alliance, an organization that certifies wireless industry standards, announced the specification for a new format for transmitting data over the air at speeds up to 10 times faster than today's top-of-the-line hotspots. The nonprofit group is billing the technology as a replacement for most wired connections between electronics. In cooperation with the Wireless Gigabit Alliance, the Wi-Fi Alliance will lobby wireless networking ...
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Google Looks to Get Faster
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All About Jazz
Google plans to build experimental, ultra-fast Internet networks in a handful of communities around the country. The search company said Wednesday that its fiber-optic broadband networks will deliver speeds of 1 gigabit per second to as many as 500,000 Americans. Google Inc. says those systems will be more than 100 times faster than the networks that most Americans have access to today. In a blog post, the company said the networks will let consumers download a high-definition, full-length feature film ...
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