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Google is Now Sending You More Traffic Than Facebook
Google once was the top source of referral traffic for musicians and all web site publishers. Then Facebook surpassed it. Now, for many, Google is back on top again. In 2017, Facebook sent 25% less traffic to web publishers this year, while Google traffic was up 17%, according to data from Parse.ly. There are several reasons for ...
Music Consumption Trends and What They Mean
As we dive into 2018, it's important to take a look back at some of the music consumption data from last year which shows an unsurprising bump and streaming, as well a rise overall. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 As we enter into the new year, it’s sometimes useful to look back at ...
40% Say They Would Gladly Pay More For Music
How much will consumers pay for music? A new survey conducted by MusiComms of 5,000 consumers across all demographics and regions in the United States offered some surprising, contradictory and yet hopeful trends amoun music fans. A new MusiComms surveyed asked 5000 U.S. consumers questions like: How much will consumers pay for music? Will they ever pay ...
BuzzAngle Year End Music Report 2017: It's All About Streaming
Music data firm BuzzAngle Music has some good news for the recorded music industry, unless one loves old-fashioned purchasing habits. Album and song sales dwindled in 2017, dropping 14.6% and 23.2% respectively, with physical sales declining only 7% percent, according to BuzzAngle. Audio stream consumption leaped 50.3 percent to 377 billion streams, up from 127 billion streams ...
What Music Has In Common With Bookstores And Swiss Watches [Jack Kelly]
Despite their turbulent sales histories and brushes with obsolescence, print on paper books and Swiss watches have both managed to make impressive rebounds and have of late shown steady profitability. Here we look look at some important takeaways that could potentially apply to the music industry. Guest post by Jack Kelly of the Adva Mobile Blog ...
The Data-Driven Future Of Media and Entertainment [Sergey Bludov]
It is by now an accepted fact that the future of the music business, media, and entertainment will likely be data driven, but what the exact implications of this may be for creative industries is, as yet, unclear. In this piece we look at how music, film & TV, and small data could be affected. Guest ...
Tips from 40+ International Jazz Festival & Club Promoters
As an independent jazz musician, it’s not easy to know how to reach festival and club promoters and – when you do – to know exactly what they are looking for. As always, the best way to get some more insight into this is to ask the promoters themselves! So, I recently put together a super ...
Streaming Drives More Music Listening Than Ever Before
Streaming is driving more music listening than ever before, according to stats crunched by Statista for Business Insider. Total music listening hours have increased during the past few years with streaming music subscribers listening to 4 hours more per week than non-streamers. from Statista via Business Insider But does extra listening lead to more music discovery? ...
Young Music Consumers Are Still Buying Music
While the common conception of young music consumers may be that they would never so much as a glance at a CD or pay for a download, some recent stats suggest that young music consumers are just as apt to buy music as any other age group. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 By ...
Independent Music Labels Capture Growing 38.4% Market Share Thanks To Streaming
A new study commissioned by the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) looks at the global market share of independent music labels based on copyright, rather than distribution, and reveals a very healthy indie sector on the rise. A new WINTEL 2017 report shows indie labels capturing 38.4% of the global recorded music market. Commissioned by trade group ...
