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 […]

The post Why You’ll Never Get Rich on YouTube (In One Easy Diagram) appeared first on Digital Music News.

Why Blockchain Won’t Save the Music Industry (at Least Not Yet)

The challenge with using the blockchain for music isn’t a technological one.  It’s a set of interlocking business problems that have been around since the beginning of music licensing… I’m sitting in a darkened, smoky room drinking with the dons of the music publishing mafia.  OK, it’s not really smoky because you can’t smoke in […]

The post Why Blockchain Won’t Save the Music Industry (at Least Not Yet) appeared first on Digital Music News.

Musique et financement participatif en Afrique

Internet a révolutionné le financement participatif en offrant de nouvelles opportunités, tant aux artistes et musiciens à qui il permet de continuer à travailler, qu’au public qui peut ainsi participer directement à des projets auxquels il est sensible. Zoom sur le crowdfunding web 2.0 en Afrique.

Music in Africa