Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
Instagram is launching analytics for businesses and brands that use the platform, according to a post on the Later.com blog. The new feature will be called ‘Insights’, and will provide information on the demographic of a users followers, including location, age, and gender. Besides follower analytics there is also a section that will focus on post analytics. Providing follower analytics is […]
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GigSalad now offers performers quicker pay-outs… Prior to the changes in GigSalad’s direct deposit processing times, it took 1-3 business days with a standard ACH processing time of 3-5 banking days. Performers had to wait several days, if not weeks to get their deposit payments, which often led to frustrated performers – especially those that were […]
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Tidal subscribers are surging at unprecedented rate… But, is it enough to compete with Spotify and Apple Music? Well…Currently Spotify sits at 30 million paying subscribers, Apple Music sits at 13 million, and at last count Tidal had 3 million. But, that was before they adopted streaming exclusives as a major strategy. The Tidal team […]
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SoundCloud is now preparing to impose serious restrictions on the upload of all DJ mixes, according to a source with close knowledge of the company’s plans. Please note that this is a developing and breaking story; please stay tuned for ongoing updates as we learn more. As of Monday morning, it remains unclear exactly what […]
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Today, The MPAA and Radix – Asia’s largest new gTLD applicant, have announced their anti-piracy partnership, according to a report by Torrent Freak. This is the MPAA’s first anti-piracy partnership with a domain name registry outside the United States. The MPAA will help Radix prevent pirate sites from using their domain names, and will act as […]
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The latest executive shuffles across the music industry… Universal Music Group has hired Jonathan Dworkin as Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy and Business Development. Dworkin comes from MixRadio where he worked as Chief Marketing Officer. Dworkin’s new role with UMG will commence May 16th and he will be responsible for developing digital strategy, cultivating key partnerships and global business […]
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SOCAN – The Canada-based collecting society has purchased the B2B digital platform, MediaNet. Who are MediaNet? MediaNet manages one of the largest global music catalogs of over 51 million tracks (each containing a unique audio identifier) and a database of over 4.1 million rights holders and their content. MediaNet created music and metadata delivery technologies which work with […]
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Azealia Banks send a half-hearted apology over racist Twitter Posts. Azealia Bank’s Twitter account has been suspended following her outrageous racists tweets to Zayn Malik. In a series of tweets which are now deleted, Banks wrote… ”Big apologies to anyone who was offended by any of the things I said. Not sorry I said it. […]
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ASCAP – The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers have announced today (May 12th) that they have agreed to pay $1.75 million and change its licensing practices to settle the U.S. Department of Justice’s claim that it violated an earlier antitrust settlement. Elizabeth Matthews, ASCAP CEO says… “Settling this matter was the right thing to do […]
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Back in November last year, DMN reported the unveiling of the new ‘Hi-Res MUSIC’ logo for digital download services. Now the RIAA have announced that the Hi-Res music logo is going to be available to music streaming services as well. David Hughes, Chief Technology Officer, RIAA says… “The expansion of the Hi-Res MUSIC definition to encompass streaming technologies reflects […]
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