Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Radical.FM accepts Bitcoin; research on Germany’s music market; Indian FM radio outlook; charts detail music purchasing trends. Continue Reading
Debates over the digital music industry have been raging fast and furious of late. This week, INgrooves Music Group CEO and Founder Robb McDaniels wrote a guest post for Hypebot with his opinions on the current state of affairs. He highlighted how much (or how little) artists can monetize on YouTube. Continue Reading
“The Summer of Copyright.” We’ve been using that phrase recently, borrowed from broadcast attorney David Oxenford and his series of guest articles about this tumultuous year in copyright. Will the system of music royalties be rebooted when the Copyright Royalty Board establishes new rates? Will the decades-old “Consent Decrees” which govern how publishers and songwriters receive royalties be upheld or stricken down? Will pre-1972 music receive the copyright protection it has never had? What about terrestrial radio paying performance royalties for the first time in history — will it happen, and should it? Continue Reading
The June data from comScore revealed that 25 percent of the service’s active monthly unique visitors, an audience of almost 19 million, are Hispanic. That’s enough people to make Pandora the top music streaming platform for the demographic of listeners, even compared with endemic Hispanic sites such as Univision Digital. Continue Reading
More semifinalists in the Fifth Annual RAIN Internet Radio Awards. Today we are pleased to announce five semifinalists in the “Overall Digital Strategy” category. The single winners of all five categories will be revealed and honored at RAIN Summit Indy, September 9, in Indianapolis. Continue Reading
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This week: New webcast metrics from Triton Digital … Pono Music goes back to the finance well … Potify partners with BandPage … Pandora’s CFO speaks out … Shazam vs. SoundHound … Disney ditches radio Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Spotify’s unfilled job listings; Sinfini Music hits Australia; music business considering global release dates; two more execs join ADD. Continue Reading
Beats Music created a short documentary film to honor the 25th anniversary of Spike Lee’s hit movie “Do The Right Thing.” The production revisits the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant that served as the movie’s setting. The movie, subtitled “A Beats Music Experience,” does double-duty as an innovative marketing vehicle. Continue Reading
This year’s big debate over consent decrees has consequences for more than just the music industry. Today, concerns over consent decrees led to a surprising agreement between long-standing enemies. The National Cable & Telecommunications Association made a submission to the DoJ calling for the regulations to stay in place. Continue Reading
As we continue to reveal semifinalists in the Fifth Annual RAIN Internet Radio Awards, today we are pleased to announce five non-U.S. music services in the “International Excellence in Online Audio” category. The single winners of all five categories will be revealed and honored at RAIN Summit Indy, September 9, in Indianapolis. Continue Reading
Market-leading music-identification app Shazam has added Spotify to its list of music services that will play full tracks identified by Shazam. The updated app can hook into Rdio (in a longer-standing relationship), Beats Music, and Spotify. Continue Reading
Disney announced that it is closing 23 of its 24 terrestrial stations, laying off nearly 200 people in sales and operations. The reason is massive migration of listening from terrestrial signals to streaming platforms. Click through for the internal memo. Continue Reading