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Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Eventbrite Go To Court To Protect Net Neutrality
The more than 50 members of the Internet Association which include Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Eventbrite, Netflix, Twitter, Microsoft, Snap and others has pledged to lead legal action to stop the FCC's recent rule changes that effectively gut net neutrality. Internet Association President & CEO Michael Beckerman issued this statement regarding the FCC's “Restoring Internet Freedom ...
YouTube Partnering With Ticketmaster To Show Tour Dates
In addition to being a site for music consumption, YouTube has also long served as a promotional platform for artists, allowing them to advertise upcoming releases or shows to fans. It appears the platform will be taking this a step further in its new partnership with renowned ticketing site Ticketmaster. Guest post by Tim McKee, Lead, ...
40% Say They Would Gladly Pay More For Music
How much will consumers pay for music? A new survey conducted by MusiComms of 5,000 consumers across all demographics and regions in the United States offered some surprising, contradictory and yet hopeful trends amoun music fans. A new MusiComms surveyed asked 5000 U.S. consumers questions like: How much will consumers pay for music? Will they ever pay ...
Why Does Apple Want Shazam?
The recent acquisition of Shazam by Apple for a relatively modest 400 million has left many wondering what the tech giant could want with the music identification service. Given that Apple has had similar infrastructure for some time, it seems the purchase was likely motivated more by interest in Shazam's historical user data. Guest post by ...
BuzzAngle Year End Music Report 2017: It's All About Streaming
Music data firm BuzzAngle Music has some good news for the recorded music industry, unless one loves old-fashioned purchasing habits. Album and song sales dwindled in 2017, dropping 14.6% and 23.2% respectively, with physical sales declining only 7% percent, according to BuzzAngle. Audio stream consumption leaped 50.3 percent to 377 billion streams, up from 127 billion streams ...
What Music Has In Common With Bookstores And Swiss Watches [Jack Kelly]
Despite their turbulent sales histories and brushes with obsolescence, print on paper books and Swiss watches have both managed to make impressive rebounds and have of late shown steady profitability. Here we look look at some important takeaways that could potentially apply to the music industry. Guest post by Jack Kelly of the Adva Mobile Blog ...
SiriusXM To Pay A Larger Royalty In Coming Year
Good news for the pocketbooks of artists, a recent ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board will be boost the rates for what the satellite service SiriusXM doles out to artists by a not insignificant forty-one percent. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 In a move that will mean more money in the pockets of ...
Unblocking Music's Blockchain: Berklee's Panos Panay On CNBC
Berklee College of Music's Panos Panay recently explained to a CNBC panel how “blockchain,” the system behind Bitcoin, has vast revenue potential in the world of music. “The vision behind it is to create an open protocol that dramatically simplifies the way that rights owners are identified across the supply chain of the music industry,” Panay ...
Disney, Netflix, And The Squeezed Middle: The True Story Behind Net Neutrality
In this article Mark Mulligan explores how the recent overturning of net neutrality comes as the inevitable result of a gradual but pervasive shift in value from a focus on rights to a focus on distribution, and how this shift has bypassed infrastructure companies. Guest post by Mark Mulligan on his Music Industry Blog Unless you ...
How Musicians Earn Money From YouTube
While there's plenty of controversy regarding YouTube's role in the music industry, as one of the most popular sites in the world, it still represents a huge opportunity for artists to make money through their work. Here we look at how. Guest post by Jorge Brea of the Symphonic Blog YouTube is one of the most ...
