Amazon Music Makes Giant Strides; How Apple Got Its Groove Back; How to Promote Your Gigs on…

Amazon Music Makes Giant Strides Against Apple and Spotify — www.bloomberg.com 
 The streaming service is off to a super start, but the big question is its ultimate aim.

How Apple Got Its Groove Back — superhypeblog.com 
 Apple is making all the right moves to restore is music mojo — and the acquisition of Shazam is just one of them.

Deezer Launches Music Streaming Service in Israel — www.calcalistech.com

The Paris-based company also used the occasion of its local launch to introduce a new Shazam-like feature called Song Catcher.

5 Ways Musicians Can Make Money in 2018 — blog.symphonicdistribution.com 
 We’ve put together 5 ways that musicians can make money in today’s music industry! The need to diversify your revenue streams should be a high priority.

Here’s Why YouTube’s Streaming Music Could Be a Huge Deal — www.barrons.com

The site, home to seemingly infinite videos about seemingly everything, is massively important to the music business.

How to Promote Your Gigs on Spotify — blog.symphonicdistribution.com

Promoting upcoming gigs should be a no brainer to you, fill the seats and make more money. Here’s how you can promote your gigs on Spotify.

Three Major Deals Point To A Maturing, And Global, Music Startup Landscape — www.npr.org 
 Two acquisitions and one equity-sharing deal could show that the music business, long known for its insularity, has fully entered a new era.

Chicago Radio Station WXRT Proves Radio is Still Fun, Relevant and Loved — loyolaphoenix.com 
 Pandora. iTunes. Spotify. iHeart Radio. These are four of the most popular music streaming services, and they make it easy to purchase, listen to and store

Songs Music Publishing Sold to Kobalt for $150 Million — variety.com 
 Songs Music Publishing will sell its catalog to Kobalt Capital’s fund. The price tag is believed to be in the vicinity of $150 million.

Podcast ads remain stubbornly old-fashioned — digiday.com

Dynamic ad insertion became the dominant form of ad delivery for the podcasting industry last year, according to research published this summer by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PwC.

Pandora Hires Gap Veteran Aimée Lapic as Chief Marketing Officer — www.billboard.com 
 Making good on a recent promise to “connect the plumbing” between its trove of data and marketing strategy, Pandora and its president Roger Lynch announced on Tuesday the hire of Aimée Lapic as the music streamer’s new chief marketing officer.