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Spotify Partners With NS2 For Self-Service Ad Platform Test
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Spotify recently launched a new self-service ad platform allowing promoters to upload and market their shows to specific fans. Currently in its beta in the US, the service has prompted Nashville-based promoters NS2 to hop on board and take the platform for a spin in advance of its official launch. By Taylor Mims from touring industry journal Amplify Last week Spotify officially launched its Ad Studio program in the United States. Ad Studio is a self-service ad platform that allows promoters ...
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Vimeo Acquires Livestream, Launches Live Video Platform
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Video platform Vimeo has acquired live video destination Livestream and launched its own live solution Vimeo Live. Livestream powers over 10 million events a year many for 10,000 paying customers including Spotify, Quartz, Dow Jones and the Philadelphia Eagles. d-free video platform Vimeo jumped into the crowded live streaming pool with both feet today, acquiring early live video platform Livestream and launching its own product, Vimeo Live. Details of the acquisition were not shared, but Livestream, founded in 2007, had ...
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Spotify's Ongoing War With The Music Industry
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Spotify has a long and sordid history of failing to pay proper mechanical royalties to creators and publishers, and has already been hit with two major class action lawsuits relating to such. Here we take a look at the legal details negating Spotify's claim that it doesn't need to pay these royalties. Guest post by Erin M. Jacobson of The Music Industry Lawyer Spotify has waged a war with the music industry. The streaming company has a history of not ...
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Concord Music Acquires Savoy Label Group, 429 Records
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Indie music powerhouse Concord Music continues its buying streak with this acquisition of the Savoy Label Group. Details of the deal were not disclosed. In June, Concord acquired music publisher Imagem at a record breaking price reported to be between $500 million and $600 million. The combined companies create the world's sixth largest music publishing company. The 3,000 album strong Savoy catalog includes iconic recordings from Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, and Charlie Parker, Sun Ra and many others. Savoy's subsidiary label ...
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Patreon Just Raised $60M, Now YouTube Is Gunning For It with Fan 'Sponsorships
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Patreon announced yesterday that it had raised an additional $60 Million to expand its fan-to-creator patronage site. Now Google's YouTube is gunning for the startup, which has become a popular revenue tool for many of its creators, with it's own Patraon-like fan “sponsorship" tools. Based on old-school patronage, Patreon enables fans and sponsors to support musicians and other creators. Patrons pledge to support creators on a recurring basis for each work created in exchange for early or exclusive access. Over ...
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23 Top Music Organizations Sign Letter On NAFTA Talks Demanding Protections For All Creators
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President Trump has forced the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico; and included in that negotiation are important copyright and intellectual property provisions. Recently, major tech groups lobbied U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer as the “new faces of the American content industry.” Not so fast, say 23 top music organizations including the RIAA, A2IM, NMPA, ASCAP, BMI and SoundExchange. Creators, they argue, deserve protection. In an open letter to Lighthizer, the trade groups and performing rights organizations ...
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Spotify is Beating Apple Music and Here Is Why
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Of the two major front-runners in the steaming war, Spotify and Apple Music, the former appears to be beating out its competition on several fronts. Here we look at some of main reasons for Spotify's growing success over Apple, including its 'bundling' with Hulu. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 At around 65 million, Spotify has more monthly paying customers than any of its competitors by far. One of the reasons is that it was one of the first in ...
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Indie Rock Is Thriving On Pandora
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The state of indie rock? Always up for debate. The state of indie rock at Pandora? Never been better, says the music streamer's Glenn Peoples, who took a deep dive into the data. By Glenn Peoples, Music Insights and Analytics at Pandora Lord Huron, a folky four-piece that weaves rural tradition into the skinny-jeaned sounds of urban America, makes for an excellent example of the state of indie rock at Pandora. The Los Angeles-based band is part of the burgeoning ...
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