Discogs Hits Data Milestone; Podcasts Offer Competition For $33 Billion U.S.

Discogs Hits Data Milestone With 8.5M Releases, 5M Artists, 1M Labels — www.billboard.com 
 The crowdsourced data the online music marketplace generates is all on the upswing, which helps explain why Ticketfly recently integrated the platform’s artist data into its back end,

Podcasts Offer Competition For $33 Billion U.S. Streaming Audio Market — www.mediapost.com

Podcasting is one of the fastest-growing mediums in digital right now, nearly doubling its listeners in the last three years, per Pew Research Center. But it is just touching the tip of the iceberg with advertisers in the U.S.

Pandora Is Building Branded Radio Stations That Offer On-Demand Listening — www.adweek.com 
 After unveiling a three-tiered business model in December to compete in music streaming, Pandora is now incorporating parts of its subscription-based Pandora Premium service into advertising units.

Vimeo launches new tools aimed at making video platform more appealing to marketers — marketingland.com 
 Part of Vimeo’s Business Membership, the enhancements include updated video cards, new end screens and more email capture features.

SoundCloud beats Spotify to Xbox One music streaming — www.engadget.com 
 SoundCloud keeps expanding its influence to stay competitive with the likes of Spotify and Pandora.

Spotify steps up Asia expansion with plans to launch in Vietnam and Thailand — techcrunch.com 
 Fresh from speculation around an impending IPO, Spotify is hitting the gas on its expansion plans in Asia. Two sources close to the company told TechCrunch..

Radio Veterans Launch Satori, New York-Centric Online Radio Station — www.billboard.com 
 Jeffrey Warshaw, co-founder and CEO of Connoisseur Media, Michael “Shark” Sharkey, who has worked in radio for the past 25 years, are launching Satori, a New York City-centric online radio station headquartered in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Music Apps: Gaana Ups the Volume as Party Winds down for Saavn — www.thequint.com 
 Most popular music apps for Android and IOS. Gaana app gains popularity, while Saavn loses share.

Both sides get more vocal in European safe harbour debate — www.completemusicupdate.com

Songwriters and composers called on European lawmakers to do more to close the bloody value gap at an event in Brussels yesterday, just as a coalition of organisations representing tech firms and libraries urged the same lawmakers to stop meddling with the copyright safe harbour. So that’s all good fun, isn’t it?