PledgeMusic, which suspended operations in February, has all but shut down its website. "The company continues to work with outside counsel on the most appropriate next steps, and we will update you with those specifics as we get more information," reads the home page. Hundreds of musicians were left unpaid…
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6 Tales From ‘Spotify Unknown’ Of Near Misses, Aborted Acquisitions and Steve Jobs’ Heavy Breathing
T’Spotify Untold’ offers a behind-the-scenes "character-driven story of Spotify’s rise from a tiny start-up to the biggest music streaming company in the world,” and the new book is filled with some juicy revelations. The book by Swedish journalists Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud, tech reporters for Stockholm-based Di Digital is…
4 Ways To Build More Content From Your Music Videos
Creating a music video can be a complex, lengthy, and above all expensive endeavor, meaning you should work to get as much out of the end product as you can. Here we look at four clever ideas for how you can utilize elements of your music video to create other…
Move with the Times: Ideal AI Tools For Musicians
While AI’s expansion into the music industry is an intimidating and off-putting idea for those songwriters afraid that a computer will take their job, the reality is that as this new era of technology dawns, there are number of ways in which the music can, and should, benefit from new…
QUICK HITS: Vevo • Merlin • Sweet • Kobalt • Warner Chappell Music
Vevo has hired Scott Anderson as its new SVP of Engineering & Product. Anderson brings with him over 25 years of technology experience and joins from startup Conversa Health, where he helped the healthcare provider through its first rounds of funding. Prior to that, he led mobile engineering at Walmart….
A Music Metadata Best Practice Guide
Recently AFEM and CI collaborated to create a "Meta Data Best Practice Guide", a definite must read for artists, particularly those who don’t fully understand what metadata is, or why it’s so important for artists to have, living as we are in the streaming age. ______________________________ Guest post by Randi…
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Come Together: Why The Music Industry Must Break Down Data Silos
In this article, Jeppe Faurfelt breaks down the different data silos which industry artists should be keeping track of, why the distinction between them is so important, and why everyone on an artist’s team should have access to all of them. _____________________________ Guest post by Jeppe Faurfelt, Co-Founder & CCO…
3 Marketing Mistakes Artists Frequently Make Online [VIDEO]
At this point, digital marketing is an essential part of getting ahead as an artist, but given that it can be an at least partly unfamiliar space for some, chances are good you’ll fall into some all-too-common pitfalls if you’re not careful. Here we look at three frequently made mistakes…
Snapchat Is Back! Adds 13M Active Daily Users In 3 Months, SNAP Stock Soars 14%
After 18 months of slow growth, Snapchat has added 13 million active daily users in the last 3 months. That brings the total number of people using the app around the world every day to 203 million, the highest since the social app went SNAP went public. Snap Inc. reported…