Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Music future • Managers today • Spotify’s new royalties • MLC payouts • More
Episode 170 of the Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. Episode 170 Listen on your favorite podcast. Continue reading
How to identify fake Spotify playlists
Scammers are amuck on Spotify, making money off of fake and stolen tracks and diluting the pool that pays all legitimate artists. Here is how you can detect and even. Continue reading
How musicians make the most of Spotify Wrapped: Marielle Kraft & more
With less than a week left for artists to get their accounts ready for Spotify Wrapped 2023, this week’s Hypebot Flashback Friday resurfaces a post on how indie singer-songwriter Marielle. Continue reading
Free Spotify Audiobooks are now live for US Premium subscribers
US Spotify Premium subscribers now also get 15 hours of free audiobook content per month, with bestselling titles making up 70% of the 200,000+ book catalog. Spotify’s total paid audiobook. Continue reading
How to reach actual Spotify users with Foundee Ads
Found.ee helps musicians reach more fans by setting up targeting ads for Spotify users. Here’s everything you need to know to get started… by Randi Zimmerman from the Symphonic Blog. Continue reading
Just 8 days left to get ready for Spotify Wrapped: A Musician’s Guide
Spotify’s Wrapped year-end recaps are a great way to reconnect and celebrate with fans, but only if you are ready. Fortunately this year Spotify created a guide to help. With. Continue reading
Spotify and YouTube need a ‘Boost’ button to simplify marketing
Michael Branvold and Jay Gilbert talk about one of their biggest wish as music marketers: a button on YouTube and Spotify that triggers a paid “boost” to make it easy. Continue reading
Spotify will pay no royalties on tracks with under 1000 streams a year [CONFIRMED]
[UPDATED] Spotify will not pay any royalties on tracks until they receive more than 1000 streams yearly, according to multiple sources. The new threshold, expected to go into effect early. Continue reading
Your Morning Coffee: Spotify’s new royalty plan • Trapital’s trends report • ‘Key Changes’ music tech book released • More
Episode 169 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. Episode 169 On this week’s YMC, hosts Jay. Continue reading
Apple Music pays as much as 90% more per stream than Spotify
A new royalty calculator created by consultancy Manatt and endorsed by Billboard shows the gap between royalty payouts by Spotify and those from Apple Music. For example, a song that. Continue reading