Deezer Partners With Feature.fm As First On-Demand Music Streamer To Offer Affordable Marketing To Artists

Native music ad platrom Feature.fm has expanded its reach signifigantly with a new Deezer partnership. Feature.fm, which some dismiss as 'pay-to-play', has scored wins offering indie artists affordable guaranteed in-stream. Continue reading

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Apple’s Billion Stream Posturing With Biggest Pawn In Streaming War

Apple was thrilled to announce that the latest album from so-called streaming pawn Drake, 'Views From The 6' had surpassed a billion streams. Good news for Apple surely, but is. Continue reading

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Spotify Potentially Buying Soundcloud, But Who Benefits?

As Spotify heads toward and IPO, and Soundcloud continues to try and sell itself, an acquisition seems imminent, although the question remains as to who exactly would benefit from such. Continue reading

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Download Revenue To Shrink 50% As Streaming Music Grows To 950 Million Users, Says New Analysis

Streaming music adoption is exploding, but just how big a can it get? And at how bad a hit will paid downloads take as streaming expands? Very big and very. Continue reading

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Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y And Indie Music

This week in our DIY and Indie section, we drop some hot tips on non-musical skills you ought to improve on, how to avoid making costly merch mistakes, the best. Continue reading

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REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

In this weekly review of major music industry events, we look back at A$AP Rocky's new role at MTV, the truth behind paid promotion at SoundCloud, Shazam's newfound profitability, and. Continue reading

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The Truth Behind SoundCloud Reposts And Paid Promotion

This piece takes an in-depth look into the world of paid promotion and reposting on SoundCloud, including an examination of just how much a repost is worth, whether we're in. Continue reading

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Rumor has it…, I ❤ Streaming, and Snapchat makes a Spectacle: Liv Buli’s Week in Music and More

Another Friday, another Liv Buli Reading List. Buli, the data journalist for Pandora's Next Big Sound, often sees what is going to matter before the rest of us and lucky. Continue reading

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Spotify On Track To Pay Music Industry More Than $1.6 Billion In 2016

Spotify announced that its total payments to artists, labels, publishers and other rightholders now tops $5 billion.That's up $2 billion from June 2015, when the music streamer shared that it. Continue reading

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Music’s Streaming Pile Of Garbage [Cortney Harding]

While variety and competition are typically a good sign in most other industries, the same doesn't seem to hold true in the music industry. An increasing number of not-so-different streaming. Continue reading

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