Why You’ll Never Get Rich on YouTube (In One Easy Diagram)

It’s not that YouTube won’t help to you build an audience (it will).  But it definitely shouldn’t be your long-term focus as an artist (unless you like being broke).  Here’s the data the proves why. So the music industry keeps talking about something called the ‘value gap‘.  What is refers to is the massive difference […]

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Tidal Flounders While Apple Music Reaches a New Subscriber Milestone

Apple Music reaches 20 million subscribers. Tidal keeps floundering. Should Spotify consider their “no-exclusives” policy? Apple released their latest numbers for Apple Music, and the news is good. In just 18 months since launch, Apple Music has crossed 20 million paid subscribers. In September, the Cupertino company reported 17 million. This marks an impressive 15 […]

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Deutsche Telekom backs Apple Music Germany deal with major TV ad campaign

Six-month free bundle deal echos EE partnership in the UKThe post Deutsche Telekom backs Apple Music Germany deal with major TV ad campaign appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.

Streaming price war breaks out as Google offers 4 free months of Play

Amazon’s entry into the market appears to have kicked off Black Friday battleThe post Streaming price war breaks out as Google offers 4 free months of Play appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.

Drake’s One Dance becomes Spotify’s most streamed song of all time

He might have signed an Apple Music exclusive deal, but that hasn’t affected Drizzy’s popularity on its rival

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Why is Netflix Making Money When Spotify and Other Services Can’t?

Why is Netflix making money when Spotify isn’t yet profitable? It’s a frustrating experience when you open up Netflix and can’t find the movie you’re looking to watch. It’s even more frustrating when you realize that they’re in the Top 250 of IMDB. Two years ago, a Reddit user clayton_frisbie decided to do his own […]

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Amazon has More Streams than Apple

The music streaming wars may soon ramp up with the entry of a well-funded Amazon music streaming service. Last week, a German coder found that there were hints about the service in their Music mobile app for the Fire TV. The service will be named Amazon Music Unlimited. But will users respond? How much weight […]

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