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.music Domains Are Coming and DotMusic (Not Google) Will Control Them
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has named the DotMusic as the sole provider of the coveted .music domain extension, beating internet giants like Google and Amazon. .music joins other top level domains like .com, .net and .gov and descriptive domains like .blog and .info. DotMusic founder Constantine Roussos tweeted on Friday that his foundation had been selected as the successful bidder after a decades long battle. Excited to announce that after more than a decade, DotMusic has ...
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Why We Need A Conscious Music Tech Revolution NOW!
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In this piece, Virginie Berger champions the need for music tech companies to bring about a major disruption to the music industry, siting long-unaddressed problems and an outdated distribution of power in desperate need of a shakeup. Guest post by Virginie Berger, the co founder of WeAreMusicTech The context now is right for startups to innovate in music. There are companies in the music space which are beginning to turn a profit and the digital music market is maturing. Many ...
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Did Technology Bring About The Death Of Good Music?
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After new research was released suggesting that millennials prefer golden oldies to contemporary pop, Stephen Carlisle did some digging to determine if this was in fact accurate and, if so, what role technology may have played in the “decline" of music's quality. Guest post by Stephen Carlisle of NOVA Southeastern University This item from the website Metro.co.uk caught my eye last week. The article’s headline read: “Millennials Prefer Music from the “Golden Age” to the Pop of Today, Research Suggests.” ...
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Amazon, Google & The Morality Of Driving Fans To Big Tech
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While many artists have some serious moral quandaries about driving their fans to YouTube given Google's suspect data practices, Chris Castle here looks at why Amazon is in fact a far guiltier culprit. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Technology Policy When Hearst Artist Frederic Remington, cabled from Cuba in 1897 that “there will be no war,” William Randolph Hearst cabled back: “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” Time Magazine Many artists I speak to have ...
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Amuse To Utilize Machine Learning To Calculate Royalty Advances
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Royalty advances are typically an unpredictable shot in the dark about what an artist is worth, with publishers seeking to keep it as low as possible, while artists work to squeeze as much money out as possible. In hopes to remove some of the polarizing ambiguity from this process, Swedish AI platform Amuse with soon begin calculating these payments using machine learning. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Getting an advance on your royalties is always a wild ...
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Amazon Adds 1 Million Reasons Not To Use Your Car Radio
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Amazon is bringing Alexa voice control to the car. Announced in September, the Echo Auto is finally shipping to the more than one million drivers that pre-ordered it. To boost sales farther, the Echo Auto is on sale for $24.99, a 50% savings. Add free Spotify and TuneIn accounts and any advantage held by broadcast radio and SiriusXM virtually disappears. “We had over a million [pre-order] requests,” Amazon Alexa VP Steve Rabuchin said at CES. “Now, we’re just starting to ...
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Google Not The Only Large Search Engine You Ought To Know About
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While the vast majority of us rely on Google for our searching needs, we're also aware of a few other engines like Bing and Yahoo, as well as some other outliers. One major search engine artists over look when focusing on making their music discoverable, however, is the Russian search engine Yandex. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 When we think of search we automatically think of Google, but that’s not the only one available to us. In the ...
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Would You Pay To See A Classic Rock Hologram Perform A Show?
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We've all at least heard of, if not seen, the “rebirth" of some of music's most beloved deceased artists as they return to stage in holographic form, but will these resurrections actually sell concert tickets? Guest post by Fred Jacobs of Jacobs Media Strategies I've been known to speculate about the staying power of Classic Rock – the music, the format, and of course, the trappings – merchandise, concerts, and events. Clearly, the Classic Rock format – now well over ...
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