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Merlin's Member Research Reveals Indie Music's Strength in Streaming Music
Merlin, a global rights agency for indie labels, released a bunch of news late last week. In addition to information about member revenue and the results of a member survey, they released findings about indie music's role in the streaming market based on their extensive member data. They found that streaming music revenue was an increasingly ...
YouTube's Ultimatum and the Economic Survival of Musicians
By copyright and intellectual property attorney Wallace E. J. Collins III, Esq.. YouTube announced that in a matter of days it may begin blocking the videos of some independent record label artists who have refused to sign licensing terms for the platform’s new service. Moreover, indie labels and other content creators who do not sign up ...
Amoeba Music's Founder Shares the Secrets of Their Bricks and Mortar Success
Amoeba Music is a bricks and mortar success story with shops in Berkeley, San Francisco and Hollywood. Fast Company recently interviewed Amoeba co-founder Marc Weinstein about what makes Amoeba Music work. He points to a number of factors in their success from having a complementary co-owner to empowering one's employees. But perhaps the best insight of ...
Indie Music Streamer Earbits Shuts Down
Earbits is shutting down today. The free streaming music service enabled artists and labels to “buy" plays, promote and connect with fans. While successful, the model was not generating enough revenue to continue. Despite today's closure, Earbits founder Joey Flores still believes that its a path that other music streamers must take. “If there is anything ...
Lively Runs Out of Money, Suddenly Shuts Down
In January I was writing about Lively's $2 million round of investments bringing their total funding to $2.65 million. Yesterday GeekWire revealed that Lively had suddenly shut down and laid off almost 22 employees because they “just ran out of time." In this case time really does equal money. Lively couldn't raise more funding for their ...
An Introduction to Bitcoin for Indie Musicians
By James Shotwell, Social Media Coordinator of the media distribution service Haulix. Cryptocurrency is a hot topic right now, and there is not a doubt in our minds that it will be a big focus of independent musicians in the years to come. If you have any questions about the content of the blog, or if you ...
Amazon Prime Music is Here and It Underwhelms, but Not in a Bad Way
Amazon's new Prime Music is here, a streaming service that's “free" to Amazon Prime subscribers only. If you're wondering if Spotify users will switch over then you're on the wrong track. Having watched Amazon grow what's now called Amazon Prime Video I know that what we're seeing today is just the beginning and that Amazon's focus ...
U.S. Music Publishing Worth $4.5 Billion Yearly, 50% Lost to Outdated Regulations Says NMPA
U.S. music publishing earned $2.2 billion in total revenue in 2013 across all income sources. However, according to a new National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) survey, roughly $2.3 billion more is lost every year due to outdated copyright law and government regulations. Thanks to recent changes in the way data is collected, the NMPA can now ...
Why Music Labels and Publishers Chronically Miss out on Licensing Opportunities
By music licensing expert Andy Lykens. The C-levels at a music publisher I used to work at would drop by my cube once every few days. All nice people, they did their best to be friendly when asking “working on anything big?” They’d ask that question because I was the person who had developed a system ...
Using A/B Testing to Inspire New Music Marketing Approaches
Ferren Gipson is a digital marketer specialising in the art and design sectors, writer for ArtCream, musician with Pandr Eyez and freelancer for those who want a more beautiful, usable online space. I wear many hats. I do digital marketing, I’m a lifestyle blogger, and I also perform in a music duo. All of these roles seem very ...
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