Quick Hits: Apple, Apple Music, and Adult Swim
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Podcasts at WWDC; Carpool Karaoke release date; Adult Swim Singles gets another 52 weeks. Continue Reading
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Quick Hits: YouTube’s YouTube study; Apple joins Giphy; NPR and sponsors; MP3s are dead
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Research into YouTube’s music industry influence; Apple launches Giphy channel; NPR interview on corporate sponsorships; MP3s are dead. For real. Continue Reading
Apple Q2 2017 results show overall growth, few insights on Apple Music
Apple has posted its Q2 2017 results. Quarterly revenue for the tech giant totaled $52.9 billion, up from $50.6 billion in the year-ago period. Apple does not break out any of the financial details for its streaming music platform, but that product is included in its Services arm along with revenue from any of its digital content. Continue Reading
Apple makes a new hire for video projects
Apple has hired Shiva Rajaraman to guide its video content strategy. He will reportedly be working on several different projects for Apple, which has been testing the waters with many video concepts. Continue Reading
Analyst: Apple Music is a tenth of services revenue with much room to grow
RBC Capital Markets analyst Amit Daryanani offered some insights about Apple and its music outlook in a note to investors. By his estimates, Apple Music contributes 10% of the tech giant’s services revenue, while iTunes is responsible for 22%. Continue Reading
Omny Studio unveils analytics tool for streamed Apple Podcasts
Omny Studio announced the launch of Apple Podcast Consumption Analytics, which was first announced in a webinar with RAIN News in August. This service is now out of beta testing and is available to enterprise customers. Customers using the analytics will be able to track and report consumption data from streamed plays of podcast episodes listened to on the Apple Podcasts app. Continue Reading
Apple’s Eddy Cue talks subscriber numbers, exclusive release strategy
Apple’s flashy senior vice president of Internet software and services, Eddy Cue, gave an update on the subscription music service during the Code Media conference last night. Cue said Apple Music is now “well past” 20 million paying listeners. Continue Reading
Apple and music: “Back to growth” (including exclusives)
Apple’s fiscal Q1 earnings report, characteristically, did not break out specific numbers for its Apple Music service, but did refer to it optimistically. To hear CFO Luca Maestri tell it, Apple’s music mojo is back. Continue Reading
Year-in-reviews: The music industry reflects on 2016
As 2016 crawls to a close and 2017 emerges on the horizon, it’s time for that most time-honored of traditions: the year in review. Music companies of all stripes have released their assessments of top performers from the past twelve months. Here’s a collection of the high points from 2016. Continue Reading
Apple saw 10 billion podcast downloads and streams in 2016
Apple shared a compelling data point in its best of 2016 review. The company said that Apple listeners consumed more than 10 billion downloads and streams of podcasts worldwide over the course of the year. Continue Reading
Quick Hits: App Store fees, trial-hopping, new CD Baby exec
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Apple revising some App Store fees; rates of trial-hopping; former ASCAP exec joins CD Baby. Continue Reading
Apple reportedly acquired Omnifone tech and talent in August
Apple allegedly played a part in the shut-down of Omnifone earlier this year, hiring 16 of the B2B music company’s employees and snapping up some amount of its technology assets. TechCrunch reported that Apple made the purchase and talent acquisition back in August. Continue Reading