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Apple Music Can't Catch Up To Spotify And That Spells Trouble for Apple's HomePod Smart Speaker
Recently, Apple announced that Apple Music has 27 million subscribers. While impressive, it's not enough to catch Spotify, who has more than 50 million paid subscribers, and continues to add users at an impressive space. That gap could be a problem for Apple’s newly announced smart speaker, HomePod. While announcing HomePod, Apple centered its pitch around ...
Reddit, Amazon Push For July 12 'Day Of Action' To Protest Killing Of Net Neutrality
Although Google and Netflix have both abandoned their defense of net neutrality, other also major internet companies are planning to come together in a 'Day of Action' on July 12th to protest what would seem to be the inevitable dismantling of the popular consumer supporting legislation. Guest post by Karl Bode of Techdirt So as we've ...
SoundExchange Royalties: The Producer’s Cut
Attorney and artists advocate Chris Castle lays out how SoundExchange deals with royalties due to the producers of the sound recordings to which they hold the rights, and how their share is calculated and paid. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Technology Policy We often get questions about whether producers get a share of webcasting royalties. ...
SEO Checklist For Musicians
Figuring out how to begin optimizing your band's presence within search engines can be a complicated and confusing process. This article makes it easier by breaking down the steps into a comprehensive and easily accessible checklist. In this recent post to MusicThinkTank, Wes Walls offers up a complete checklist for bands and musicians looking to optimize ...
Two U.S. Senators Ask SXSW To Leave Texas In Protest Of Anti-Immigration Laws
Two U.S. Senators have called on the organizers of South by Southwest (SXSW) to relocate the annual conference and festival out of Texas until President Trump's anti-immigrant SB4 law is repealed or overturned by the courts. In a letter to Roland Swenson, the CEO of SXSW, two Latino U.S. Senators, Bob Menendez, (D-N.J.) and Catherine Cortez ...
Sirius XM's $480 Million Pandora Investment Just Prolongs The Inevitable [Bobby Owsinski]
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A company which has been facing series of woes, Pandora recently rejected a full buyout from Sirius XM, instead opting for a large cash injection, as well as giving up almost a fifth of its stock and three seats on the its board, although Sirius XM's ownership of the floundering company seems inevitable. Guest post by ...
YouTube, ASCAP Reach U. S. Performance Rights Deal
Performing rights organization ASCAP and YouTube have signed a multi-year agreement for US public performance rights and data collaboration. Under the agreement the two will work together to ensure that ASCAP members get paid more fairly and accurately for the use of their music on YouTube. The new agreement between ASCAP and YouTube is all about ...
Navigating A Sea Of Music: Pandora's Catalog Curation
In this article Glenn Peoples explores the reasoning and process behind Pandora's curation of the music they offer, and how it allows them to hand pick the best and most likely to be enjoyed tracks. Guest post by Glenn Peoples of Pandora on Medium Key takeaways: Curation allows Pandora to surface the best of the over 50 ...
10 Fundamentals For Succeeding In Today’s Music Industry
With the emergence of new technology, much has changed in the music business over the past few years. Here we look at ten fundamentals of business that any musician or producer must understand in order to find success in the modern music industry. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 So much has changed in ...
A Core Flaw In Music's Blockchain [Chris Castle]
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Although many in the music industry are excited by the possibilities of blockchain's potential, others like Chris Castle are more skeptical, particularly of it's need to be forced on rights holders as a means of making the technology scalable. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Tech Solutions The truth about blockchain is that at its ...
