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What happens when artists and record labels build and buy their own media companies?

Cherie Hu breaks down the increasing similarities between ‘music companies’ and ‘media companies’
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How successful are Spotify’s ‘direct’ artist signings?

Chartmetric report compares DIY artists with major label signings
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Latest Industry: Google vs. Amazon, NZ vs. Viagogo, Cinq, BBC, Spotify, Live Nation, More…

Google creeps up on Amazon in the global smart speaker market. Strategy Analytics has found that Amazon shipped 4.8 million smart speakers in the second quarter of 2018.  The company now has a 41% market share.  Google shipped 3.2 million in the same p…

Latest Industry: Pandora, Spotify, T-Mobile, AdRev, Sony Live, Warner/Chappell, Coachella, More…

Seven years after launching its IPO, Pandora’s cash burn reaches $407 million. Bloomberg examined 150 technology companies in the US to discover their burn rate and found Pandora Media has “burned cash for years.”  The company has had “cumulative annua…

Student Success: Radio Special (Madam X, Monki, Gemma Cairney & More)

Within media, radio is often seen as one of the elder statesmen, but despite the fact that it’s essentially just the printed press that has been around for longer, it has a remarkable ability to remain relevant even as platforms such as television that was tipped to bury radio fall away at the influence of the […]

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Spotify is on a collision course with the major record companies. Here’s why.

Spotify has a number of tricky issues to face down during its 2019 negotiations with the biggest labels
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Deezer’s new Middle East deal is not good news for Spotify or Apple

Platform will soon be the exclusive streaming partner of its new investor, Rotana
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Spotify On Course To Pass Pandora In U.S.

An eMarketer analysis predicts that Pandora will continue to see its U.S. user base decline slowly over the next few years, while Spotify will have double digit growth. Pandora currently has 75.9 million total paid and free users in the U.S. vs. 58.4 million for Spotify, according to eMarketer. But…