Kickstarter has hired Molly Neuman as its head of music. Neuman steps into the newly created role from A2IM, where she was interim president following the departure of Rich Bengloff. Adding a new high-level leader to the management team shows that Kickstarter isn’t just looking to remain static in music. Continue Reading
While albums fade as commercial products, and radio is challenged by streaming audio, is there a new power product that drives listens and accelerates hit-making? U.K.-based consultant and founder of New Slang Media, Chris Price, has emerged as a specialist in identifying the power of playlists, and quantifying their influence. Listomania is his new research study. Continue Reading
SoundCloud has inked a multi-territory licensing deal with PRS for Music, a UK-based organization representing songwriter and publisher rights. This arrangement will cover SoundCloud’s use of PRS’ repertoire since the audio service launched. Continue Reading
Christmas may come early this year for fans of The Beatles. Billboard’s sources couldn’t come together on an exact date, but a hard day’s night of negotiations could see the lads from Liverpool arriving on interactive, on-demand services by Dec 24. Continue Reading
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Online marketing is growing fast. Businesses will allocate approximately 30% of their marketing budgets to online marketing in 2016, and 77% of businesses plan to increase their digital marketing budgets from last year. Kelly Shelton, VP of Marketing at Boostability, explains why this trend represents a growing opportunity for radio stations. Continue Reading
Intellectual property attorney Angus MacDonald was the first to calculate that Pandora paid more than half of all SoundExchange collections of royalties to record labels. At that time he spoke of implications for the Webcasting IV process which ended this week with new webcaster rates for 2016. We asked MacDonald for his thoughts about the ruling, and he sent us his analysis. Continue Reading
Triton Digital will host broadcast law attorney David Oxenford in an interactive webinar on Monday, December 21, at 3pm. Titled The New Streaming Music Rates; Everything You Need to Know, the 30-minute session will include an interview with Oxenford on key points of this week’s CRB rate ruling. Continue Reading
NPR has announced plans for an experiment in audio on Facebook. In this new post format, listeners will be able to hear particular moments or stories within the social platform. Continue Reading
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The weekly update of the streaming audio industry, from RAIN News. THIS WEEK: The U.S. Copyright Royalty Board delivers new webcaster royalty rates for payments to record labels. Also, Vivendi takes a majority stake in Radionomy’s online radio platform. Continue Reading
Nicki Minaj weighed in on the role of streaming in an Instagram post celebrating one year of her album The Pinkprint. She called for streaming performance to be accounted for in sales figures. “The music business doesn’t really seem designed to reward our culture with the sales & accolades we deserve,” she wrote. Continue Reading
Rivet Radio has partnered with Mood Media, which could see its audio programming playing at many thousands of businesses. Mood Media provides clients with experience design solutions, including music and audio for companies ranging from retailers to restaurants. Thanks to this partnership, Rivet Radio’s short news clips can be mixed into the customized music programs of Mood clients. Continue Reading
DGital Media is at it again, adding another sports show to its roster. Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski, usually nicknamed Woj, is hosting the new program, which debuted today and quickly rose to the No. 2 spot in the iTunes charts. Continue Reading