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Will The Online Music Experience Another Myspace Moment?
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HypeBot
Here Bas Grasmayer explains why he believes online music may be on the verge of another Myspace style implosion, and why this could open up new opportunities for those operating and innovating in digital music. Guest post by Bas Grasmayer of Music Tech Future An emerging void signals new opportunity for innovation in digital music. The benefit of writing thoughts down is that you get to revisit them. Six years ago, I penned a piece for Hypebot called The Next ...
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Artificial Intelligence Is The Future Of Music and Here's Why
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HypeBot
During the course of 2016, the music industry saw double digit growth for the first time since 1998, something for which they have artificial intelligence, and its use by platforms like Pandora and Spotify, to thank. Guest post by David Deal of Superhype The music industry finally has some reason to celebrate, thanks to artificial intelligence. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently announced that music revenues in 2016 grew 11.4 percent to $7.7 billion — the highest year-over-year ...
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Tech Innovator Spud Too Tight Launches Video Podcast On "Facebook Live" With Real-time Call In Feature
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Monica Anders
Since 2009, The Producer's Corner with Spud Too Tight a highly regarded and one of the first music production and tech talk show podcast has interacted with some of the biggest names in the industry from Billboard chart topping, Multi- Platinum, Grammy award winning music producers, composers, saxophonists, guitarists, bassists, drummers, multi- instrumentalists, recording artists, songwriters, technology experts to industry executives in nearly all genres of music. The show was featured in leading newspapers, magazine outlets and favored on countless ...
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Apple Puts Another Nail In Snapchat’s Coffin
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HypeBot
Aprecently announced a plan to launch the service 'Clips' in April. Although an obvious challenger to Snapchat, Clips is different in that, rather than seeking to build a network of its own, it plans to work through the already existing platforms of Snapchat, Instagram and Messenger. Guest post by Karol Severin of Midia Yesterday Apple announced it will launch Clips in April, a video-making app that allows users to capture photos and videos, combine multiple videos and include a variety ...
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Inside Chuck Berry And Pandora's Genome Project [Glenn Peoples]
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HypeBot
In this piece, Glenn Peoples looks through the lens of Pandora's genome project to take a close at how the style and musical traits of Chuck Berry were copied and disseminated down through generations of musicians. Guest post by Glenn Peoples of Pandora Biologist Richard Dawkins used the term “the selfish gene” in describing how a particular trait survives to be passed to the next generation. Music also has “genes” that represent traits inherited by future generations. The late Chuck ...
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Google To Let Musicians, Others Post Messages Directly Into Their Search Results
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HypeBot
Imagine searching Google for “Kanye West" and finding a message purposely posted there by the mercurial musician? Google has begun taking applications for a program it had tested during the U.S. elections that enables this kind of direct in-search posts. Google is taking applications to verify museums, sports teams, sports leagues and movies in the US and Brazil, so that they can make announcements, post images, videos, animated GIFs, and inline links within Google search results. In Brazil, Google is also ...
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As Snapchat Stock Continues To Soar Friday (↑12%), Will Music Be Its Killer App?
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HypeBot
Snapchat stock [NYSE: SNAP] opened Friday at $26.25, up 54% from its initial $17 IPO price on Thursday. By 10:30 AM ET Friday, the stock was up another 12% to $27.41. Now it is up to this soaring startup to prove it's not the next MySpace or Twitter. Could music be point differentiation that justifies Snapchat's valuation or sends its stock been higher? Many social networks and apps have tried and failed to use music as its secret sauce. MySpace was ...
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From Austin To Memphis: What It Takes To Build A Music-Tech City In 2017 [Cherie Hu]
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HypeBot
In this piece Cherie Hu explores the complexities of bridging the gap between tech and music in cities, whether the two camps might be able to collaborate productively, and how such a collaboration might be affected by a city's socio-economic position. Guest Post by Cherie Hu on Forbes Silicon Valley for music. Even today, this phrase smells of paradoxy. After all, so much of the music industry's recent history has been carved out by an ideological and geographical separation from tech entrepreneurism—the ...
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