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Amazon Abandons North American Ticketing Plans (For Now)
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While it earned a lot of attention over this past summer after its plan to disrupt ticketing in the U.S. was revealed over the summer, Amazon appears to be all giving up on the ticketing platform, at least for the time being. Guest post by Dave Brooks of Amplify Amazon garnered big headlines this summer when stories began to crop up on the company’s plan to disrupt ticketing in the U.S., even leading to a small dip in Live Nation’s ...
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YouTube Dips Toe Into Social E-Commerce With Ticketmaster Partnership
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A recent announcement by YouTube has revealed that the popular video sharing site will be allowing Ticketmaster to use its site to connect users directly with tickets. While the deal is non-exclusive it does represent a move by Google to begin diversifying away from advertising revenue. Guest post by Zach Fuller of Midia YouTube has announced a partnership with Ticketmaster that will allow its video property to connect users directly with concert tickets. The deal is non-exclusive and similar to ...
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Solving the Music Startup Catch-22
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The difficulty, time and cost of licensing music has stymied an untold number of startups and scared off countless more investors. Crunch Digital has created a solution. Their Digital Music Sandbox will offer music startups a direct conduit to limited term music licensing without advances or minimum guarantees; and founder Keith Bernstein shares an advance look at this much needed service. By Keith Bernstein, founder of Crunch Digital Right now, music startups face a quandary—launch without licenses and cross your fingers that ...
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FCC Released Its Net Neutrality Killing Order, Hoping You Were Too Busy Cooking Turkey To Read It
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"The FCC is trying to use the Thanksgiving holiday to distract the press and public from its blatant handout to one of the least liked and least competitive industries in America," writes Karl Bode of Techdirt, “Trying to bury such an epic middle finger to consumers behind the cranberry sauce is an obvious underestimation of just how unpopular this plan is, and the policy, political, and cultural backlash it's going to generate for years. That said, all six of you not currently driving ...
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YouTube's Lyor Cohen To Keynote Music Biz Convention In Nashville
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Often controversial music industry veteran Lyor Cohen, the Global Head of Music at YouTube and Founder of music content company 300, will keynote the Music Business Association’s Music Biz 2018 conference at the Omni Nashville Hotel. Cohen will discuss his career journey, his current role at YouTube and Google and his thoughts on the future of the music business. “Lyor’s tremendous impact on the music industry cannot be understated, from nurturing the rise of Hip-Hop at Def Jam Recordings, to pioneering the 360 ...
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Q&A With Downtown Records Noah Jackson
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In this interview Noah Jackson, content and social media strategist at Downtown Records, discusses the importance of artists keeping up with marketing tech, as well as the value of messenger bots and strategies for getting them to work effectively. Guest post Veselina Gerova of The Message Can you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? I started off working in music journalism but soon gravitated to the label world, where I’ve done everything from social analytics and ...
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Digital Music Distributor Symphonic Scores $4 Million Investment From Ballast Point Ventures
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Tampa based Symphonic Distribution has secured a $4 million investment from Ballast Point Ventures (BPV). Symphonic will use the investment to add to its sales force, bolster its marketing and enhance its product capabilities. After 10 years as a bootstrapped company, Symphonic Distribution found a venture capital firm that it wanted to partner with. The digital music distributor has secured a $4 million minority investment from Tampa based Ballast Point Ventures (BPV). Symphonic digitally distributes music to over 300 retail ...
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Contrary To Predictions, Blockchain May Not Be The Future Of The Music Industry [Bobby Owsinski]
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Over the past couple of years, a number of articles have surfaced in the music business world touting blockchain tech as the saviour of the music industry which will finally allow artists to get paid. This may be wishful thinking however, argues Bobby Owsinski, who offers several reasons why blockchain isn't the answer to musicians' prayers. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Just about every month for the past couple of years there’s been an article or post ...
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