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Why Every Musician Should Be Playing More House Concerts
While the dream of many aspiring musicians may be playing a packed stadium, getting to that point is a lengthy process, and playing any official venue, even a small one, has countless other expenses and challenges built in, one of the many reasons a house concert can seem so appealing. Guest post from the ReverbNation Blog ...
Guide To Livestreaming Your Concert or Event On YouTube
With live video now functioning as an established and important component of event marketing, more attendees now expect livestreaming to be available at major functions, and platforms like YouTube Live make it easy to do- especially with a little help from us. Guest post by Rachel Grate of Eventbrite Live video has truly come into its ...
Music And Technology: 4 Disrupters You MUST Pay Attention To
As the music industry continues its second year of promising recovery following the disruption of the digital marketplace and embraces streaming as the dominant form of music consumption, the question is already being raised—what technology will be the next industry disruptor. Guest post by Sergey Bludov, Senior Vice President of Media and Entertainment Practice at DataArt The ...
280 Is The New 140: Twitter To Double Character Limit
News came late yesterday that Twitter was doubling its character limit to 280. Various sources call it a test, a beta and a slow rollout. But whatever the pace of the character expansion, it's clear that 280 is about to become the new 140 on Twitter. Can’t fit your Tweet into 140 characters? We’re trying something ...
Vimeo Acquires Livestream, Launches Live Video Platform
Video platform Vimeo has acquired live video destination Livestream and launched its own live solution Vimeo Live. Livestream powers over 10 million events a year many for 10,000 paying customers including Spotify, Quartz, Dow Jones and the Philadelphia Eagles. d-free video platform Vimeo jumped into the crowded live streaming pool with both feet today, acquiring early live ...
Amazon Music Adds Alexa Voice Control To Mobile Streaming App
Amazon today added Alexa voice control to its Amazon Music app. Early studies show that voice control could be the feature that accelerates mainstream adoption of streaming music. Alexa voice control is now available within the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android in the US, UK, Germany and Austria. Users can ask for music based on genre, decade, mood, tempo, ...
Spotify's Ongoing War With The Music Industry
Spotify has a long and sordid history of failing to pay proper mechanical royalties to creators and publishers, and has already been hit with two major class action lawsuits relating to such. Here we take a look at the legal details negating Spotify's claim that it doesn't need to pay these royalties. Guest post by Erin ...
What Does All Of This Action On Healthcare Mean For Musicians?
Musicians, by the nature of their craft are often self-employed and under capitalized making them particularly vulnerable to changes in health care and insurance. But there is so much noise coming out of Washington that it's impossible to keep track. So Kevin Ericson of The Future Of Music Coalition did the research and shares an important ...
Money Is Streaming Into The Music Industry: A Breakdown Of Where It's Coming From [CHART]
It's no secret that streaming is driving a comeback for a recorded music industry that saw sales fall from $40 billion in 1999 to just $14.5 billion in 2014. Revenues from paid subscriptions, ad supported streaming and digital radio are still a fraction of the industry's peak, but they are certainly moving in the right direction. ...
SiriusXM Completes $480M Investment in Pandora, 3 Join Board
Pandora and SiriusXM announced Friday that the later has purchased $307.5 million of Series A preferred stock in Pandora, completing the $480 million strategic investment announced on June 9, 2017. Under the terms of the agreement, a subsidiary of SiriusXM purchased $172.5 million of Series A preferred stock upon execution of the agreement on June 9, 2017 and today purchased an additional $307.5 million of the Series ...
