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Radio Giants Entercom And CBS Radio To Merge
Broadcast giants CBS Radio and Entercom have announced plans to merge to form a new commercial radio behemoth. Following the merger, the combined companies will have a nationwide footprint of 244 stations, including 23 of the top 25 U.S. markets, as well as digital capabilities and a growing events platform, the companies said. The newly combined ...
What Really Happens To Your Concert Ticket Money?
The price of concert tickets has, in many places, risen to astronomical levels, but that doesn't stop fans dropping their cash on show anyways. Here we take a closer look at exactly where all this money actually goes when the dust has settled. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 The concert ticket you buy today ...
Indie Music Fans Spent More Than $1 Million On Bandcamp During Friday's ACLU Fundraiser
On Friday, Bandcamp held a fundraiser donating a share of sales to support the pro-immigrant and pro-refugee work of the American Civil Liberties. 400 independent labels and artists joined in, and indie music fans responded, spending more than $1 million on music on the platform. Bandcamp, along with 400 indie labels and artists donated a share ...
Songtrust Partners with DotBlockchain Music
Songtrust has partnered with DotBlockchain Music for the second phase of its creation of a “decentralized global database of music rights, combining the publishing and the performance information into a unit of music that the industry can use." The problem that Dotblockchain aims to solve involves the separation of copyrights creative material from the creators and ...
Musicians Action Group's Comments To Judiciary Committee Regarding Copyright Reform
This piece contains the text of comments by the participatory grass roots organization Musicians Action to the House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet regarding copyright reform as they work to promote economic justice for artists. Guest Post by David Lowery on The Trichordist Musicians Action is a participatory democratic grass roots organization dedicated ...
Thanks Alexa, Music Streamers See Lift From Amazon Echo
With more than 14 million consumers in the US now users of an Amazon Echo device, the conversation has once again shifted to music in the home, and whether Amazon will be able to make strides in the streaming market in 2017. Guest Post by Russ Crupnick on MusicWatch Based on the 15th edition of MusicWatch’s ...
Nielsen Completes Gracenote Acquisition
Nielsen announced on Wednesday that it had completed its acquisition of entertainment metadata provider Gracenote. Gracenote's data and technology is a key element of user interfaces and programming guides and includes everything from song data on compact discs to multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), smart televisions, streaming music services, connected devices, media players and in-car ...
With Music Marketing, Data Is Power
Although the digital age has been harmful to the music industry in a lot of ways, it has also opened the door to some valuable data-driven marketing practices, several of which Raffi Keuhnelian outlines here. Guest Post by Raffi Keuhnelian on Forbes Not that long ago, music marketing relied on sending press kits and mixtapes to DJs, ...
Guide To Independent Radio Promotion: Why It Still Matters
The term radio has transcended the idea of terrestrial broadcast, and is now representative of connection through curation. That said, it remains an invaluable marketing tool, perhaps more now than ever before. Guest Post by D. Grant Smith on Soundfly's Flypaper What we mean when we talk about “radio” these days is so much more than ...
Spotify, Playlists and Profitability: On Playing The Long Game
Lucas Gonze shares his response to Mark Mulligan's piece on why Spotify struggles with profitability, and takes a look at what the streaming service's most logical path forward may be if it hopes to make money down the road. Guest Post by Lucas Gonze on Medium Mark Mulligan asks why Netflix is profitable but not Spotify, ...
