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Soundcharts Launches 'Mentions' Tracking 2M Artists
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Music data analytics platform Soundcharts today launched what it's calling its biggest product update since going online in 2016. A new feature dubbed Mentions enables global media and web monitoring of two million artists with geotargeted data from tens of thousands of sources. Mentions is designed to help to spot local promotional opportunities, identify niche genre publications, and influence marketing strategies accordingly. The real-time data allows labels, marketers and others to react to key “moments" which can impact a campaign. Soundchart ...
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Why Blockchain Won't Be Saving The Music Business (Yet)
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Here Bobby Owsinski outlines why the rise of streaming culture has largely nullified the viability of a blockchain-based system for selling music, and why services like Audius, which do utilize blockchain tech, are more susceptible to piracy. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 I started getting blockchain music pitches about 4 years ago. In every single one the central theme was the same – “Blockchain is going to save the music business and allow artists to charge a ...
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Copyright Infringement Liability In The Music Business
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Living as we are in the digital age, any company which plays host to entertainment media on a large is at constant risk of copyright infringement. Whether it's Spotify or YouTube, difficult challenges will inevitably arise over how to best monitor for and remove infringing content. Here we look at factors which determine how companies thread the copyright needle. Guest post by Camran Ferrier from the Berklee College of Music: Music Business Journal Introduction In our digital age, companies that distribute ...
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Deezer Signs With Targetspot, Flirts With IPO
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Deezer, has signed a two year deal with Targetspot, the digital audio ad platform, to be the exclusive seller of the music streaming service's audio advertising inventory in five countries. Targetspot will sell Deezer’s audio ad inventory in the United States, Canada, The Netherlands, Spain and Italy. Deezer has 14 million monthly active users in 180 countries. “It was important for us to find an ad sales house partner in some of our key markets," said Marianne le Vavasseur, VP ...
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How Does The Money Flow From Music Streaming To Artists, Music Industry?
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Now accounting for 75% of total music industry revenue, there's no denying that streaming is now the dominant form of music consumption. That said, one question continues to plague the industry: where is all that revenue going, and how can artists get their hands on it? Here, we breakdown step by step where the money is going. Guest post by Ava Roche and Samuel Smith of the Berklee College of Music- Music Business Journal Introduction Since their introduction, streaming services have ...
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Music Piracy Continues To Dip Dramatically, But The Industry Is Loathe To Admit It Because It Ruins The Narrative [Op-Ed]
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In this op-ed, Mike Masnick reveals how better-authorized services have, in contrast to increased legal enforcement, been incredibly effective at reducing online piracy, but that the music industry is choosing to ignore the numbers in favor of a different narrative. Guest post by Mike Masnick of Techdirt This was wholly predictable, of course. Back in 2015, we released a detailed analytical report showing that the absolute easiest and most effective way to reduce piracy was to to enable more and better licensed ...
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Publishers Are Driving A Full Stack Music Revolution [MIDiA's Mark Mulligan]
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As the value of music publishing catalogs have multiplied, so have the ways in which forward-thinking companies like Downtown, Round Hill, Kobalt, ole/Anthem, Primary Wave and Create Group monetized those catalogs, says MiDiA entertainment industry analyst Mark Mulligan. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA from the Music Industry Blog Music publishing catalogs are gaining momentum fast as an asset class for institutional investments, with transactions ranging from large catalog mergers and acquisitions (M&A) through to investment vehicles for songwriters’ shares such ...
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Ticketing Exchange Platform Lyte Adds $15M In Funding
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San Francisco based ticket exchange platform Lyte has secured $15 million in Series A financing to drive the development of the platform and scale operations. Jackson Square Ventures was joined by Industry Ventures, Accomplice Ventures, and Correlation Ventures to close Lyte’s latest funding round, alongside entertainment and technology industry insiders including Bernie Cahill and Greg Suess’s Activist Artist Management, Coelius Capital, former CTO of Pandora Chris Martin, co-founder of 99 Designs Matt Mickiewicz and CEO of Fresno Unlimited and Lyte board ...
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