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Music Streaming's New Playlist Economy
With the advent of streaming, playlists have risen to become many consumer's default interface for listening to music, something which has some serious implications both for the music business and music itself. Guest Post by Bas Grasmayer on Synchblog Playlists have become the default for listening to both new and unfamiliar music. Instead of digging through complete ...
Abbey Road Graduate CloudBounce Closes $250K Seed Round
Abbey Road Red Incubator graduate CloudBounce, an instant digital audio mastering service, has raised a $250,000 seed round. Investors in this round include UK-based VC Ascension Ventures, and a group of Finnish business angels. CloudBounce offers instant feedback on an audio track using AI. The (artificially) intelligent machine, unlike Shazam or Echo, makes processing decisions based on ...
IBM Partners With Sacem For Music Cloud-Based Rights Management Platform
French performance rights organization Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (Sacam) announced that they are partnering with technology giant IBM in a 10-year bid to develop URights, a cloud-based copyright platform designed to track and collect on online music for creators and publishers. URights aims to leverage cloud technology and data analytics, including IBM's ...
CD Baby, Music Gateway Partner To Provide New Sync Opportunities For Indie Artists
CD Baby is partnering with Music Gateway and its newly launched Sync Portal which allows 300+ global advertising agencies and 700 music supervisors to easily license tracks from CD Baby’s sync catalog of 2 million songs film, TV, commercials and video games. A new CD Baby and Music Gateway partnership hopes to exploit the advantages that ...
YouTube’s Safe Harbor: The Push For Reform
With YouTube being the most used streaming service in the world, the pressure is building from major artists for a reform of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which currently grants the video site safe harbor provisions harmful to artists. Guest post by Michael Kostaras from Berklee's Music Business Journal. Music industry pressure is mounting on YouTube. In June, ...
MUST READ: Well-Being In The Music Industry
In this follow-up to David Emery's must read post How To Survive The Music Industry In 2017. MD and music industry veteran Darren Hemmings looks at the impact that a life in the music business can have on a person's mental health; and why music companies must do more about it. Guest post by Darren Hemmings MD, Motive Unknown ...
How Musicians Can Benefit From Creating Mobile Apps
Encouraging industry creatives to embrace change and adapt to new technologies, Andrew Gazdecki here outlines several different ways in which mobile apps are changing things, and how artists can benefit from them. Guest Post by Andrew Gazdecki The music industry was transformed when the internet brought everyone online, and that transformation is still ongoing. There might be ...
SoundExchange To Continue To Distribute Most Pandora Royalties To Artists Despite Direct Licensing Deals
Royalties from Pandora’s ad-supported radio service will continue to be paid to artists through SoundExchange, despite recent direct licensing deals with major music companies. The agreement both insures a major income stream for SoundExchange and maintains the performing rights organization's position as a protector of artists. An agreement for SoundExchange to continue to serve as the ...
How To Survive The Music Industry In 2017
"The music industry can really fuck you up," writes David Emery, VP Global Marketing Strategy at Kobalt Label Services in this important essay/how to guide. “It’s all well and good to talk about it ... (but) breaking it down into some small things that might make working in the music industry slightly less likely to cause more stress ...
Why So Many Music Startups Fail And What We Can Do About It
Why do so many music startups fail, and can we do anything to prevent it? Here we look at some alarming evidence demonstrating the incredibly high rate of failure in the music startup world, and if the end of innovation is nigh. Digital Deficiency: Why Music Startups Are Failing And What We Can Do About It ...
