Why Musicians Make Little While Music Services and Distributors Make Billions [JEFF PRICE]
By Jeff Price, the founder of TuneCore and now founder/CEO of Audiam. In today's new music industry of peer-to-peer file sharing, download stores, and on-demand streams, it's hard enough for. Continue reading
Portable Music and The State Of Music Apps in 2013 (Berlin Music Week Slideshow)
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. A few weeks ago, I gave a half-hour presentation on the state of music apps at Berlin Music Week, before interviewing some prominent app. Continue reading
Spotify App Soundrop Grabs $3.4 Million In Additional Funding
With funding totalling $6.4 million Soundrop wins the prize as best financed Spotify app. Today, the music discovery app and group listening platform, announced it has secured additional $3.4 million from Northzone. Continue reading
Spotify Adds Follow Buttons, But Will Artists and Labels Use Them?
Spotify has added Follow buttons in the hopes that artists, labels, blogs and brands will embed them on sites. The buttons make it easy for web visitors to follow artists,. Continue reading
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
Why Musicians Are Being Warned About Upgrading To Apple's iOS 7 Spotify, Pandora and TuneIn Form Streaming Audio Task Force, Release Online Listener Survey YouTube Music Video Biz: Offline Viewing,. Continue reading
Rdio Turns To The Echo Nest For Recommendations
Music streamer Rdio has partnered with The Echo Nest to power a new Recommendations feature that provides a stream of new music recommendations including albums, stations and playlists based on what. Continue reading
Spotify, Pandora and TuneIn Form Streaming Audio Task Force, Release Online Listener Survey
Three very different streaming services – Spotify, Pandora and TuneIn have joined forces to form what their calling The Streaming Audio Task Force. First up from the rather grandiosely named organization is. Continue reading
Spotify Adds Four, Now In 32 Countries
Spotify continued its global expansion today with launches in four new markets in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The Taiwan launch adds to Spotify's existing Asian markets of Hong Kong,. Continue reading
Everybody’s A Publisher: Spotify Launches Landmark, Nielsen Releases TOPTEN App
Though venture capitalists are notoriously uninterested in investing in content plays, every major business on the web eventually seems to head towards web publishing. This week it's Spotify with the. Continue reading
