5 Streaming Trends to Watch This Summer; JQBX Lets You Stream Music with Friends; Big Hits Are Now…

5 Streaming Trends to watch this Summer — blog.midem.com The evolution of the streaming music industry raises important questions about…

5 Streaming Trends to watch this Summer — blog.midem.com 
 The evolution of the streaming music industry raises important questions about ownership and revenue. Discover 5 trends to watch this summer!

SoundCloud matters because artists and labels depend on discovery — cdm.link 
 Criticize SoundCloud’s enormous growth if you like — but that growth built an audience, one the music world might miss if it were gone.

Making Music A ‘Verb’ Again — Why The Music Industry Needs Computer Coders — medium.com 
 As Andrew Dubber’s quote emphasises, artists and record labels are the beating heart of an expanded music industry that includes tech companies — and we need to remain so.

JQBX Lets You Stream Music With Friends — tech.co

With so many options available for streaming music, fans are still seeking better discovery options. That’s why JQBX was created.

Nielsen: on-demand audio streaming hits record high, is up 62.4% over last year — techcrunch.com 
 A new report from Nielsen out this week paints a picture of the booming on-demand audio streaming business, pointing to a significant increase in consumers’..

Which of These Fledgling Music Services Will Still Exist in 2018? — www.dailydot.com 
 Pandora? SoundCloud? Things are moving at such a rapid pace that there is no guarantee the music streaming service you use today will be around next year.

Big Hits Are Now 2 Billion Streams — music3point0.com 
 A hit record requires a whole different mindset when it comes to streaming numbers in today’s music economy, and 2 billion streams is becoming more common.

Dolby Atmos for Music Debuts in the U.S. — platformandstream.com 
 Dolby announced Chicago club Sound-Bar will boast the first Dolby Atmos music entertainment experience in a club in the United States.

Is SoundCloud Doomed? Here’s How It Can Be Saved — www.fastcompany.com 
 The 10-year-old music streaming service just laid off 40% of its staff. Is an acquisition imminent?

Podchaser, an “IMDb for podcasts,” is building a big tags-based database to help people discover shows — www.niemanlab.org 
 “One of our big advantages is we’re trying to build this bottom-up, feature-wise, and talking to a hundred different podcasts and tons of listeners and asking exactly what they want.”

Fender Play helps guitar players learn songs rather than master guitar — www.cnbc.com 
 Fender is going online to convert guitar newbies into long-term customers.