Spotify continues to up its bet on data analysis with today’s acquisition of MightyTV. The startup’s team will be joining Spotify, including Founder/CEO Brian Adams, who will has been named the music streamer’s VP of Technology, focusing on advertising and marketing technology solutions. MightyTV is a Tinder-like video streaming app…
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Inside Chuck Berry And Pandora’s Genome Project [Glenn Peoples]
In this piece, Glenn Peoples looks through the lens of Pandora’s genome project to take a close at how the style and musical traits of Chuck Berry were copied and disseminated down through generations of musicians. _________________________ Guest post by Glenn Peoples of Pandora Biologist Richard Dawkins used the term…
15% Of Pandora’s 100M Users ‘Intend’ To Upgrade To Paid Premium
Pandora has told shareholders that it projected signing up 6 – 9 million paid subscribers to its newly launched Premium on-demand streaming service in 2017. But a survey of users suggests that the number could be much higher. _______________________________ 15% of Pandora’s 100 million monthly free streaming customers intend to…
Slacker Radio Is "On The Cusp Of Profitability,” says CEO
“We are comfortable with the idea of being at a smaller scale,” said Slacker CEO Duncan Orrell-Jones commenting on the unsustainable losses of his larger competitors. “We are on the cusp of profitability,” he added. ____________________________ The revelation that Slacker Radio was close to becoming a profitable company came during…
SoundCloud Gets A Lifeline: $70 Million In Debt Financing
After publicly admitting that it could run out of cash later this year, SoundCloud has received $70 million in debt financing. The company had, for months, tried and failed to raise $100 million in venture financing. __________________________________ Struggling music service SoundCloud has received a much needed $70 million loan from…
Inside Pandora’s Plan To End Abandoned Playlists
Subtitled "how I learned to stop indecision and love the Genome," Pandora data analyst Glenn Peoples offers a peek inside “Add Similar Songs,” a unique and powerful playlist-building feature built into the new Pandora Premium service. _____________________________________ By Glenn Peoples, Music Insights and Analytics at Pandora If famed disc jockey…
Drake’s "More Life" Is The New Normal In Streaming
Like Ed Sheeran days before, Drake has shattered multiple streaming records with the release of his 20 track "playlist" More Life. But with this release, Drake is also rewriting longstanding rules of how new music is released, marketed and consumed, says MIDiA’s Zach Fuller. ____________________________ A guest post by MIDiA’s…
iHeartRadio Passes 100M Users, Adding 10M In Just 7 Months
iHeartRadio announced this morning that it has more than 100 million registered users, up 10 million from just seven months ago. The milestone comes on the heels of its launch of a new on-demand music services in January. ___________________________ iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia’s digital music, podcasting and live streaming radio service, today…
7 Reasons Why Spotify Finally Has Real Leverage Negotiating With The Major Label Groups
Spotify is reportedly getting close to finally signing new deals with the major labels; and if those same sources are correct, it will be at a lower per stream royalty rate. How did Spotify go from pariah to partner deserving of a sweetheart deal? ______________________________ Spotify is rumored to be…
WMG Launches ‘Streaming First’ Record Label
Warner Music Group has launched a new imprint, Artists To Watch Records, that will identify singles with the potential to become global streaming hits; and the record company already has its first success story. __________________________________ Overseen by Kieron Donoghue, Warner Music VP, Global Playlists Strategy & Curation, the new ‘streaming…