Daniel Ek Has a Plan to Harness Hollywood for Podcasts; FM is King, Digital is Queen; Decoding…
Spotify’s Daniel Ek Has a Plan to Harness Hollywood for Podcasts and Create “the World’s №1 Audio Platform” — www.hollywoodreporter.com…
Spotify’s Daniel Ek Has a Plan to Harness Hollywood for Podcasts and Create “the World’s №1 Audio Platform” — www.hollywoodreporter.com
Having helped transform the music industry, with Spotify, Daniel Ek sets his sights (and your ears) on spending hundreds of millions on podcasts and recruiting Jordan Peele, Mark Wahlberg and the Obamas in a race with Apple and Amazon.
Decoding 8tracks’ demise — www.patreon.com
…And what it reveals about the state of music streaming
FM Is King, Digital Is Queen — www.radioworld.com
Report reveals that digital is growing but audiences still mainly rely on FM to tune into radio.
Streaming now accounts for 80 percent of the US music market — www.engadget.com
Streaming has completely reshaped the face of the music industry over the last decade, with the likes of Spotify and Apple Music proving to be overwhelmingly po…
True wireless earbuds, vinyl, and Alexa: the 10 biggest audio trends of the last decade — www.techradar.com
Streaming, smart home, and the search for something superior to stereo — we cover the trends that defined audio in the 2010s.
The 10 Best Artists of a Decade That Atomized Music — www.wired.com
Social media platforms toppled the reign of the album. The 2010s were all about singles — rewriting how we metabolize music and the culture that surrounds it.
How Spotify, YouTube, and others revived India’s music streaming space in 2019 — www.hindustantimes.com
India’s music streaming space gained in 2019 with the entry of Spotifyand YouTube. Here’s what’s next for these players in 2020.
Jimmy Iovine reveals what’s wrong with streaming music, talks Steve Jobs — appleinsider.com
Former Apple Music executive Jimmy Iovine says streaming services are all facing the same problems about differentiation, but notes it’s a great time to be an artist.
Reimagining Design Systems at Spotify — spotify.design
How we build design systems that fit our culture of autonomy.
Music cassette sales follow vinyl with demand hitting a 15-year high — www.mirror.co.uk
Music industry body the BPI said UK cassette sales reached 80,404 last year (2019), the highest annual figure since the just over 100,000 in 2004 —
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