Can Amazon overtake rivals in both the streaming video and streaming music markets? In order to take on streaming video giant Netflix, Apple unveiled a $1 billion spending plan on original content. Unsurprisingly, the Cupertino company’s strategy won’t…
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Tunecore Distribution Payments To Artists Up 21%, Stream And Downloads Rise 83%
TuneCore artists earned $83 million in the first quarter of 2019, a 21% increase over the same period last year. Total streams and downloads of music by TuneCore’s 250,000 worldwide artists hit 199.3 billion in the past year, a 83% increase over 2017. This latest tally brings Tunecore’s total distributed…
Taylor Swift’s ME! Breaks YouTube, Amazon Records
The Taylor Swift juggernaut plowed forward breaking multiple YouTube and Amazon records with the song and video premiere of “ME!” featuring Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco. __________________________________ On Spotify, "ME!" tallied 7.9m streams worldwide in the first 24 hours with 3.6 million coming from the U.S. On Amazon…
Amazon to Make One-Day Shipping the Standard on Amazon Prime
Amazon plans on spending $800 million in this year’s second quarter to build out the needed infrastructure.
FRI. BRIEF: Sony Music Revenues Dip • Amazon Readies Hi-Def • Gaana Hits 110M • Swift Releases ME! • More
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Amazon is readying a hi-def music streaming service
At least one major label has already licensed hew HD service, MBW can reveal
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Why Amazon and Google’s free music tiers could spell trouble for Spotify
Spotify’s audio advertising offering could be under threat from the big boys
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How Raising Your Prices Can Actually Help You Make More Sales
Plus, this Amazon entrepreneur breaks down how to make the most of the online marketplace.
Amazon Music’s New Freemium Tier May Bite Into Spotify’s Long-Term Advertising Strategy
Amazon’s freemium music service soft launch may force Spotify to reevaluate its own strategy to keep advertisers. In an interview published earlier this year, David Limp, Senior Vice President of Devices and Services over at Amazon, shared a surprising…
Free Amazon music streaming service now live via Alexa in the United States
Ad-supported tier is available ‘out the box’ for Alexa users
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