Spotify is expanding its arrangement with the Rubicon Project to bring its programmatic advertising to the Asia Pacific market. This opens up Spotify’s programmatic campaigns to Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Continue Reading
If you follow pop or rap music news, then you know Drake has been one of the most dominant artists of this year. He’s closing out 2016 with yet another feather in his cap: his track “One Dance” is the first on Spotify to accumulate more than 1 billion plays on Spotify. Continue Reading
BandPage announced several upcoming changes to its feature set as part of its acquisition by YouTube earlier this year. The video platform bought the direct-to-fan service in February. Starting March 1, 2017, several core features of the BandPage service will be discontinued, including Bandpage.com public-facing profiles and the BandPage store and events. Continue Reading
Twitch, the livestreaming service owned by Amazon, announced the launch of a general interest channel and detailed its mobile broadcasting plans. These updates are positioning Twitch to be a more comprehensive video source, similar to the scope at YouTube, rather than a specialist. Continue Reading
ASCAP announced a new five-year agreement with the Radio Music License Committee. This deal sets the public performance fee rates to be paid by commercial terrestrial radio stations for the rights to play ASCAP’s repertory across the years 2017-2021. Continue Reading
Spotify is running a holiday event that will see artists’ top fans getting fun and festive gifts. The 2016 Wrapped campaign will highlight some of the top performers on the streaming service. Superfans of those artists have a chance to receive themed presents. Continue Reading
YouTube is collaborating with Elton John on a music video competition. Dubbed “Elton John: The Cut,” this program will end with fans making official music videos for one of three Elton John songs. Continue Reading
SoundCloud released a blog post to address questions from its community about takedowns. “There have been a number of incoming questions this week from our community around creativity and content on SoundCloud,” it said. Continue Reading
MIDiA Research released its predictions for 2017. Building on some of the major trends seen in 2016, the expectations for the coming year cover several aspects of the audio industry. “2016 was a big year for streaming, and 2017 will be even bigger,” the report reads. Continue Reading
Podcast host Blubrry Podcasting is rolling out a tool for sharing shows to social media. The Post to Social tool allows producers to automatically publish entire shows to Twitter. For Facebook and YouTube, it publishes the first two minutes of a podcast, with the option to add a custom promotional outro. Continue Reading
Digital music distributor CD Baby has added a Trending and Analytics dashboard for its clients. “This knowledge gives our musicians a vital guide of not only where to tour, but where to market their tracks and albums via targeted social media promotion,” said Kevin Breuner, CD Baby VP of Marketing. Continue Reading
If you ever wanted to check out what radio stations are playing in Sri Lanka or Casablanca, now you can find out first hand. Radio Garden is an interactive online project that shares stations from around the world. Just spin the digital globe, zoom in on a city, and you’ll see the names of some currently broadcasting stations. Continue Reading