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Canadian Music PRO SOCAN Acquires Jeff Price's Audiam "to finally fix the global industry problems"
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In May, Canadian performing rights organization SOCAN acquired music and metadata delivery technology provider MediaNet. Late yesterday, they added Audiam, a digtal music licensing and royalty collection service, to their music tech portfolio. Canadian performing tights organization SOCAN has acquired Audiam. Founded in 2013 by TuneCore founder and former CEO Jeff Price and former TuneCore CTO David Willen, Audiam collects royalties by identifying and tracking music on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music Google Play and other digital services. Terms of the ...
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Why Musicians Make Little While Music Services and Distributors Make Billions [Jeff Price]
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By Jeff Price, the founder of TuneCore and now founder/CEO of Audiam. In today's new music industry of peer-to-peer file sharing, download stores, and on-demand streams, it's hard enough for an artist to make money by selling their music. So what happens when the world's largest music distributors and stores carry all the songs in world but don't need to sell any of them in order to make money? The answer: Revenue from the sale of music goes down for ...
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Tunecore Founders Jeff Price and Peter Wells Launch Audiam to Help Artists Make $'s on YouTube
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TuneCore co-founders Jeff Price and Peter Wells today launched Audium, an online service that helps D.I.Y. artists make money on YouTube. Many indie artists don't have time, skills or the YouTube plays to collect payments. Audium helps those artists make money. For labels, the startup provides a way to monetize fan cover versions. Price and Wells each exited TuneCore more than a year ago. And to date, the popular flat fee digital distributor has not offered a justification for their ...
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Tunecore Co-Founder Peter Wells Speaks out on Jeff Price Exit and Company's Seismic Shift [exclusive]
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In May, co-founder Peter Wells exited TuneCore followed earlier this month by CEO and co-founder Jeff Price. Since then, the company has not named a successor, issued a statement or responded to inquires regarding these seismic changes to their executive team. For the first time, one of the co-founders, Peter Wells, speaks out in an exclusive Hypebot interview. HYPEBOT: You co-founded Tunecore in 2005 with Jeff Price. What was your position in the company when you left? PETER WELLS: I ...
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Breaking: Tunecore Releases CEO Jeff Price
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TuneCore has pushed out both CEO Jeff Price and fellow co-founder Peter Wells from the company, first revealed publicly by an open letter sent out by Price himself. Details remain scarce, but it appears to stem from conflicts between the two and TuneCore's Board of Directors. The open letter from Price (below) suggests this was not the way that he wanted things to go down and that he seeks to continue his mission of serving artists elsewhere. Price also suggests ...
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Blogger Criticizes Artists for Making Money; Tunecore CEO Jeff Price Responds
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TuneCore CEO Jeff Price responds: Before I say another word, yes, I know I'm rising to the bait. I know this response means more eyeballs for Digital Music News—a semi-legitimate music industry blog that tends to be sensational to drive eyeballs. I know that Paul Resnikoff's constant personal attacks on TuneCore and me are a goad and good for his web traffic. Okay, sometimes the only way to refute a gambit is to accept it. If this means more people ...
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Tunecore CEO Jeff Price on New Songwriter Services [interview]
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Last week digital music distributor TuneCore launched the Songwriter Publishing Administration Service to help songrwiters collect payments from global performing rights organizations (PROs) as well as directly from digital music providers. It's a major initiative for the company and CEO Jeff Price who has made often described TuneCore's mission as delivering “more money, more quickly, with transparency" to artists. To learn more, we interviewed Price via email. How long has TuneCore Songwriter Services been in the planning stages?JEFF PRICE: This ...
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Tuncecore CEO Jeff Price Responds: "When Artists Become the Product"
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Last week, Hypebot published a guest post, “D.I.Y. Music—When Artists Become The Product“ by William Gruger which questioned the value of the growing “online industry dedicated to earning money and exposure." Today, Tunecore CEO Jeff Price responds. JEFF PRICE: The challenge with articles like this is they imply some sort of “magic wand" which, if waved, allows musicians to have instant fame and success. This is just not the case. The secret to success for a musician is in the ...
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Tunecore's Jeff Price on Going Direct to iTunes
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Jeff Price, CEO of TuneCore, responds to a recent post on Digital Music News. This posting is not about me trying to drum up business for TuneCore. Rather, a recent music blog ran a factually incorrect and incomplete story about how artists can “go direct" with digital stores like iTunes. It's frustrating to see wrong information being stated as fact as misinformation can hurt artists. I thought it important to provide a more complete story. To begin, the article implies that a ...
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