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YouTube's Feed Evolution and Why It Matters
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Having been welcomed into the world way back in 2005, YouTube has naturally undergone some changes over time, but of all these changes, the evolution of its feed is perhaps the most important, particularly when it comes to being a artist looking to reach fans via the platform. Guest post by Jenna Wasserman, Rights Management Coordinator at The Orchard from The Daily Rind Since YouTube was founded in 2005, it has been transformed from a simple search engine into a website that’s completely personalized and ...
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Rock Impresario Bill Graham’s Sons Renew Estate, Memorabilia Fight
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Legendary concert promoter and music empresario Bill Graham died in 1991, but his sons are still locked in a bitter legal fight with the executor of his estate over his rock memorabilia, including hundreds of concert posters and scrapbooks. “Our clients have witnessed nearly a decade of litigation and it’s been hard. They found out a person they really trusted, their fiduciary, utterly betrayed their trust and arranged to sell things that had belonged to their dad,” attorney Therese Cannata ...
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UnitedMasters Lands To $70 Million From Google To Take On The Record Labels
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Next-gen artist services and music technology platform UnitedMasters, led by former Interscope Records president Steve Stoute, has exited stealth mode with $70 million in funding from Google's parent company Alphabet, respected venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, Translation and entertainment conglomerate 20th Century Fox. UnitedMasters has raised $70 million to take on just about everyone in the recorded music business. “For too long, artists have had to surrender their independence and creative freedom to make it in the music industry. Until ...
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YouTube Tries The Frenemy Approach, Partners With Ticketmaster To Sell Tickets Alongside Videos
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YouTube is adding concert updates and ticket sales via a partnership with Ticketmaster. The recorded music industry may not be happy with YouTube, but that doesn't mean that artists hoping to fill venues don't appreciate the video giant's massive promotional reach. YouTube and Ticketmaster have partnered to add concert updates and ticket sales alongside an artist's music video. “Starting today, we will begin featuring hundreds of artist’s upcoming U.S. tour dates on their YouTube videos," the company said in a ...
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Broker Genius Raises $15M For Dynamic Ticket Pricing
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New York based Broker Genius, developers of dynamic ticket pricing technology has secured a $15 million Series A round of funding from Boston-based growth equity firm Volition Capital. Broker Genius offers pricing automation technology in the live event secondary market. The travel industry uses similar technology to price flights and hotels rooms. To date, Broker Genius technology has priced over $2 billion in entertainment and sports ticket inventory. The new funding will support additional product development. Advancements in the technology will ...
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Keynote Q&A With WME's Marc Geiger At This Year's IEBA Conference
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Here we look at a recent Q&A with American music executive and co-founder of Lollapalooza Marc Geiger who shared his message on the importance of eliminating consumer frustration, and smoothing out the process of getting music into the hands of said consumers. Guest post from IEBA’s 47th Annual Conference in October of this year William Morris Endeavor's head of music Marc Geiger began and ended his talk at IEBA with the same message: we must eliminate frustrating experiences for our consumers, ...
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Musical.ly and Live.ly Sold For $800M - $1B To China's Bytedance
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Music video app Musical.ly and sister app Live.ly has been sold to Chinese media giant Bytedance. The deal is worth between $800 million and $1 billion, according to multiple sources. A division of Bytedance aquired Musical.ly rival Filpagram earlier this year. Hugely popular music video lip sync platform Musical.ly and its live streaming app Live.ly has been acquired by Chinese media conglomerate Bytedance for a reported $800,000- $1 billion. Musical.ly was founded in 2104 in Shanghai by Louis Yang and ...
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Musical.ly Just Sold For $800M, But Its Already Peaked, says Mark Mulligan
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Musical.ly may have just sold for an eye-popping $800 million to $1 billion, but the app is already beyond its peak writes MIDiA analyst Mark Mulligan. The reason for the slump, says Mulligan, is that Musical.ly concentrated on building features and not products. By analyst Mark Mulligan of MIDiA and the Music Industry Blog News has just emerged that lip synching app Musical.ly is to be sold for between $800 million and $1 billion to Chinese company Jinri Toutiao, which also ...
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