Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
When you’ve sold out of J Cole and Midnight Oil tickets, do as Ticketmaster does: redirect fans to an official Resale ticket site, then, overcharge them by up to six times the original price. (Oh, and don’t forget to completely deny it.) The popular North Carolina rapper will perform in Auckland in December. Tickets went […]
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Will SoundCloud’s final ‘GO’ prove a hit with consumers, saving them from bankruptcy, or will its premium price cut end up as a notable yet failed Hail Mary pass? You work for a largely respected company. You’ve even received the title of “YouTube of audio.” Millions of relatively-unknown DJs have successfully used your service to […]
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How much does YouTube pay for 1,000,000 views? If you want to make money on YouTube, don’t get millions of views. Get billions of views. Because the only way to make YouTube make sense it with extreme volume. That was confirmed by the latest YouTube royalty statement shared with Digital Music News. Specifically, this is an […]
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So, what do you do after earning both a No. 1 on Billboard charts and a iHeartRadio award? Do people still go to Disneyland? People have really enjoyed Bruno Mars’ ‘That’s What I Like.’ So much that track streaming pushed Mars into his first No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B songs chart. Following a strong […]
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According to this former RIAA executive, “No, fair use is not fair.” Does the entire RIAA think the same way? Should we worry? IAA Executive Vice President, International, Neil Turkewitz stepped down from the organization after 29 years of service. According to Cary Sherman, RIAA Chairman and CEO, Turkewitz “truly left his mark on the […]
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Why are so many people searching for how to cancel Spotify? Did the New York Times fail to convince them? Several weeks ago, Wall Street rejected Spotify’s IPO (once again.) The Swedish company run by Daniel Ek now faces possible bankrupt this year. Company executives worked to make Spotify’s IPO attractive. Yet, the company now […]
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A pro-Trump ‘Make America Great Again’ dress at the Grammys is translating into a lot of money for Joy Villa. At the 59th Grammy Awards, Bruno Mars performed a tribute to the late Prince. Adele stole the night with 5 Grammys, beating out Beyonce in several categories. Yet, the singer most people talked about was […]
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When a YouTube video reaches 1 billion views, are these numbers true? Will advertisers get paid the right amount? MRC aims to find out. In 2015, Digital Music News questioned Facebook’s video metrics. Ari Herstand wrote that Facebook only counted 3 seconds as counted. Last year, the company came clean. The social media giant overstated […]
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When a YouTube video reaches 1 billion views, are these numbers true? Will advertisers get paid the right amount? MRC aims to find out. In 2015, Digital Music News questioned Facebook’s video metrics. Ari Herstand wrote that Facebook only counted 3 seconds as counted. Last year, the company came clean. The social media giant overstated […]
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When a YouTube video reaches 1 billion views, are these numbers true? Will advertisers get paid the right amount? MRC aims to find out. In 2015, Digital Music News questioned Facebook’s video metrics. Ari Herstand wrote that Facebook only counted 3 seconds as counted. Last year, the company came clean. The social media giant overstated […]
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