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UMG Acquires Independent Music Distributor Ingrooves
Universal Music Group is acquiring independent music distributor Ingrooves Music Group. Ingrooves will continue to operate as a standalone company led by CEO Bob Roback. UMG has been a minority investor in Ingrooves since 2006. The acquisition of Ingrooves is expected to close before the end of the current quarter and complements UMG’s existing distribution and ...
YouTube's ContentID System Being Repurposed By Blackmailers Thanks To Its Failings
YouTube's content ID system has long been maligned by the music industry for its multifaceted failings. The minimal staffing YouTube provides regarding copyright claims has left the system vulnerable to misuse and, most recently, outright extortion. Guest post by Timothy Geigner of Techdirt By now, we should all be aware that YouTube's ContentID system is not ...
Identity Theft New Trend In Music Piracy
Music piracy has existed as long the music industry itself, but like every thing else in the biz, it's constantly changing and adapting. The most recent trend appears be impersonation, and has digital buccaneers pinging labels and publicists, claiming to be an artist or manager in order to access their music. Guest post by James Shotwell ...
How Has Playlist Culture Affected Our Listening Choices? An Experiment
In an age where playlist culture reigns supreme in our consumption of music, one curious music blogger from NYC took some time to investigate what today's music consumers are listening to, on what platform, and most of all how they're discovering it. Guest post by Noor Kalouti of Soundfly's Flypaper Have you ever really considered how you ...
How Artists Can Drive Brand Partnerships
With such a high volume of new music constantly being released, artists and their music have a difficult time breaking through and getting traction among listeners. That said, the upheaval and transformation of the traditional music industry has given the scrappy do-it-yourselfers a chance to succeed with the help of brand partnerships. Guest post by Maxwell ...
Streaming Music Revenue Up, But Per Song Rates May Have Dropped In 2018
In this piece, Bobby Owsinski breaks down some complex recent streaming data, which highlights the disparity between the royalty rates paid out by major streamers (with YouTube coming up particularly short) as well as the contextual challenge of drawing accurate information from these kinds of data sets. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 How ...
Music Streaming Rates 2018: Per Stream Rates Drop and YouTube's Value Gap Is Very Real
2018 saw music streaming come into its own as the dominant source of recording music revenue. But as streaming volumes swelled, the YouTube value gap and its pitifully small payout percentage became even more apparent. Guest post by David Lowery of The Trichordist Here we go again. To see previous years, click [here]. This data set is ...
Why Musicians Should Think More B2B, Less About B2C
In this piece, Bobby Owsinski explains why, in the new music economy, artists need to think more about Business to Business transactions instead of just focusing on Business to Consumer transactions. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 You might be wondering about the title and that’s because it contains some popular business-speak, so let ...
Fair Pay, Fair Fight: For Musician Radio Royalties, Will The Circle Be Unbroken?
After the struggle of getting the Music Modernization Act passed and allegedly gave pre-1972 artists the royalties they finally deserved, a new merger between Sirius and Pandora by their hold-tightening parent company Liberty Media, has artists and advocates gearing up for an ongoing fight against tech companies and their lobbyists. Guest post by Chris Castle of ...
Harvey Goldsmith's Edge Invests $4.5M In Festicket
Festicket has added a $4.5 million investment from music industry veteran Harvey Goldsmith led Edge Investments. UK based Festickets serves as a music festival discovery and booking platform, including accommodations and VIP experiences. The Edge investment comes as an extension of a late 2018 Series D that raised $10.5 million. Festicket has raised $25.2 million to ...
