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The Pros And Cons Of Pandora’s Rdio Purchase
Pandora's recent procurement of the streaming service Rdio (it's second major acquisition of late, following Ticketfly) could help Pandora to expand its global customer base, but the purchase also brings with it a host of complications, and none of Rdio's customers or licenses. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 The music streaming wars just became ...
Eight Music Performance Concepts You Should Apply To Your Live Show
For those looking to up the level of crowd engagement at their next gig, here are eight useful tips that can help your time on stage stand out and remain memorable to your audience after the show has ended. Guest Post by Chris Robley on The DIY Musician Last weekend at CD Baby’s DIY Musician Conference, we got to watch live ...
4 Music Marketing Tips From DIY Musician Conference
Over 1,000 musicians from all across the globe, spanning every genre – from acoustic metal-rap to Zydeco pop covers – headed for Chicago to empower themselves with the knowledge handed down from leading music industry experts at CD Baby’s first ever artist-oriented DIY Musician Conference. By Justin Zupnick of Pairade To say that CD Baby cultivated a ...
Streaming Won, But Where’s The Innovation?
Although music streaming, the most disruptive technologycurrently being used in the industry, is well on its way to becoming the dominant method through which listeners consume music, it has not yet even come close to unlocking its full potential, despite having been around for close to two decades Guest post by Radical.FM founder Thomas McAlevey For a ...
RIAA Introduces A Hi-Res Music Logo, Plus Some Confusion
In an effort to get serious about hi-res music, major label lobbying group, the RIAA, has introduced an official hi-res logo. However this new image, along with the RIAA's strange definition of what constitutes hi-res, may simply end up resulting in more confusion. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 While the number of streaming ...
Muddy Ground Or Pastures Green? The Highs And Lows Of Online Engagement
Being forced to spend large quantities of time staring at a screen is one of the realities of being an independent artist in 2015, and while this can be frustrating, online engagement and effective use of social media still remain some of the best ways to share what's really important: your music. A trumpet player sits on a bench with perfect posture. ...
Rdio Deal Is Admission That Pandora Business Model Is Unsustainable, Marks Beginning Of The End For Free Music Streaming
Headlines that Pandora purchased a bankrupt Rdio signal consolidation. But it's also a sign that even Pandora, the largest and most successful streaming music service, knows that its current business model is unsustainable. Like Deezer's “delayed" IPO, Rdio's fire sale sell-off to Pandora signals that investors are cooling to freemium music streaming. But there's a deeper message: Pandora ...
7 Reasons Why You Should Be Pitching Smaller Music Blogs
While it may be the dream of many artists to end up on the front page of Rolling Stone or Pollstar, such a feat isn't only difficult to achieve, it's also not as beneficial as they may assume. This article offers several compelling reasons why up-and-coming artists are better off approaching smaller blogs for their promotional ...
TuneCore Reports 90% Streaming and Download Growth, But Just 6.3% Rise in Payments To Artists
D.I.Y. digital distributor TuneCore announced today that is artists had a collective 3.6 billion downloads and streams in the last 3 months. That resulted in 90% increase versus the same time last year, and artists saw a 6.1% in earnings over the same time period, totaling $34.7 million 90% growth yearly is impressive. but the resulting ...
Pandora Acquires Bankrupt Rdio For $75 Million In Bid To Compete With Spotify, Apple Music
Consolidation in streaming music has begun, though perhaps a bit earlier than expected. Pandora is acquiring “the technology and intellectual property" of streaming music service Rdio for $75 million, and will use the assets to compete with Spotify, Apple Music and others. For Pandora, whose user growth has slowed to 3%, it is a bid to ...
