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Record Store Day Summer Camp: 200 Record Store Staffers Converge On New Orleans
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Going strong for ten years, Record Store Day has become a big part of the independent music retail business, but besides just being a single day, the event has grown beyond just a single day. One iteration of this is networking party that is Record Store Day Camp. Here we take a closer look at the event and its structure. Guest post by Antone DeSantis of the The Orchard's The Daily Rind The independent retail community gathered together last week ...
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Spotify Could Have Dodged Songwriter Lawsuits If They'd Just Asked The Record Labels...
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Spotify and other streaming services have been making a fair number of headlines recently owing to lawsuits surrounding a failure to pay proper royalties. In this article we break down how such lawsuits could have been avoided, by simply asking labels. Guest post by the Editor of The Trichordist This is simply a story about intent. Daniel Ek is the co-founder of Spotify, he was also the CEO of u-torrent, the world's most successful bit-torrent client. As far we know u-torrent ...
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Desktop Still Beats Phones For YouTube Viewing [New Survey]
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Social media is moving to mobile, but the desktop is still the most popular device to watch YouTube videos for consumers across generations. In its Q3 report, “The Generational Debate,” Strike Social examined a year of YouTube campaigns across 25 verticals in the U.S. and found that desktop computers had the highest view rate across devices at 30.9% vs. 27.9% for phone and 27.8% for tablet. Other findings from the report include: Desktops were most popular among baby boomers, with ...
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Pandora, Smart Speakers and Other Surprises From The Infinite Dial Study
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For a number of years Edison Research has been conducting a study to measure media and tech consumptions in the US. The latest batch of info from the study reveals some surprising numbers regarding the use of Pandora and Smart Speakers. Guest post by Bobby Oswinski of Music 3.0 For 20 years Edison Research has been conducting its Infinite Dial study that measures media and technology consumption in the United States. As always, the latest edition has a number of interesting discoveries, but it ...
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Why Didn't Google Shut Down YouTube-MP3 Sooner?
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Why did YouTube and Google let the RIAA take the lead in shutting down YouTube-MP3? Much like their own Lyor Cohen's recent missive defending low payments and blaming musicians and labels for the “disconnect between YouTube and the rest of the industry," in failing to work to shut down the top streamripper, YouTube keeps missing opportunities to gain the respect of the music community. Op-ed by Bruce Houghton, publisher of Hypebot and MusicThinkTank and president of Skyline Artists By many ...
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If 'Everyone Just Wants Free Stuff' Mentality Responsible For Piracy, Why Isn't Nintendo Able To Keep Classic Consoles In Stock?
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Recent buying trends among consumers of Nintendo's classic consoles have recently provided further rebuffment of the 'people just want free stuff' myth often proclaimed by content industries. Guest post by Timothy Geigner of Techdirt For a long time, we've been trying to debunk the “But people just want stuff for free" myth that purports to explain why the only proper strategy for infringement is heavy enforcement. Everyone should have instantly recognized that this was a dumb meme put forth by the content ...
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Is Music Streaming Really Worth $28 Billion? [Mark Mulligan]
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A new Goldman Sachs report claims that Universal Music is worth $23.5 billion and that the paid streaming market will be worth $28 billion in 2030. That's almost double the size of the entire recorded music business in 2016. Analyst Mark Mulligan dives into the numbers. Guest post by music industry analyst Mark Mulligan of MIDiA Goldman Sachs just made some headlines with its assessment that Universal Music is worth $23.5 billion and that the paid streaming market will be ...
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Why You Can’t Put The Music Industry On A Blockchain
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In this excerpt from "Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts," author David Gerard offers a critical examination of the Bitcoin and blockchain phenomenon, and what it means for music and the music industry. Guest post by David Gerard from his book Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts An edited excerpt from Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts By David Gerard, the first critical examination of the entire Bitcoin ...
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