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A Post-Download Era: What Happens When Apple Kills The iTunes Store
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Streaming is edging out downloading as the primary means through which listeners consume music, but many artists still depend on this legacy format for critical revenue, raising the question: What happens when Apple shutters the iTunes store? By Mark Mulligan of the Music Industry Blog When new formats race to the fore it is easy to make the mistake of taking an eye off the legacy formats. This is risky because they usually still account for very large portions of existing ...
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YouTube Set To Release Live Streaming App
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Facebook is getting headlines this week for upgrades to its live video app; now YouTube is throwing its hat into the ring with the new YouTube Connect, and while its still an industry leader in many ways, this new app may be too little too late. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Where once we lived in a world of pre-recorded video, that's changing rapidly as millennials increasingly show how much they love live streaming. For instance, Periscope has ...
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Rhapsody, Napster Launch The Listener Network Designed To Make Music More Social
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Improving music discovery on a virtual jukebox with millions of songs, is a major focus for all streaming services. Those that get it right, like Spotify has with Discover Weekly, stand the best chance of attracting and retaining users. Rhapsody/Napster has unveiled its effort which cleverly combines machine learning with social curation. Rhapsody today launched The Listener Network, a new set of features within Rhapsody and its global sister Napster designed to make finding new music more social. Powered by its ...
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Jumpstart Your Music And Tech Startup At Music Startup Academy
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I've published Hypebot for a decade and run Skyline Music for longer, and in that time I've lost count of the promising music and music tech startups that have come and gone, often with surprising speed. The best way to avoid that fate is to actually understand the music business before launch and a great way to do that is Music Biz's Music Startup Academy. The Music Business Association (Music Biz) is bringing its popular Music Startup Academy series back ...
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Social Media Cheat Sheet: Who Uses The Top 10 Social Media Networks And How They Use Them
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Spotify Introduces "Fresh Finds" Tastemaker Generated Artist Discovery Playlists
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Discover Weekly, which has quickly become my favorite Spotify feature, uses my listening habits to uncover tracks I'll like with unnerving accuracy. Now Spotify is applying similar algorithms to the behavior of music tastemakers to uncover new artists. Starting today, and update every Wednesday, Spotify will deliver “Fresh Finds," a collection of 6 playlists designed to surface undiscovered artists before they become popular. The playlists are available to both free and paid Spotify users. Through a combination of man and ...
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Think Small, Act Big: Monopolizing Specific Behavior In Music Tech
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Currently, the majority of online music competitors are fighting over a broad demographic of listeners, with little attention given to consumer's specific behaviors, meaning there is an opportunity for those willing to build something smaller and smarter. Guest Post by Bas Grasmayer, from the MUSIC x TECH x FUTURE weekly mailing One of my favourite concepts in design is the monopolisation of specific behaviours. It means that a service or product does something so well, that people only think of your service whenever they ...
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Music Meets "Internet Of Things" With Aivvy's Smart Headphone, Pandora-Like Music Platform [VIDEO]
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From the turntable to the Walkman and iPod to Sonos, as music discovery and consumption evolves, so do the devices that deliver it. In the last year have we started to see hardware like the Amazon Echo that combine the latest tech with streaming music. Squarely into that evolving category debuts Aivvy's smart headphones. Aivvy headphones and connected cloud music service are launching “to simplify and improve the way music fans discover and enjoy music" by bundling audio hardware, intelligent ...
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