Duplicate Data Costing Musicians, the Industry Millions; New York City Ballet's Archives Available for Streaming
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Why Duplicate Data is Costing Musicians & The Industry Millions
Millions in music royalties are getting lost or payments delayed, and the culprit is often as simple as duplicate data. Find out how messy metadata is quietly choking the music industry and what it will take to finally clean it up.
New York City Ballet's Archives Are Available for Streaming
Priceless clips on the New York City Ballet website.
Music’s Latest Hit
Remember when tracking music revenue was straightforward? Those days are long gone. Today’s music assets generate revenue across an average of 14 distinct platforms and formats, often exceeding 20 when counting emerging channels. This fragmentation creates both unprecedented challenges and opportunities for rights holders.
Can You Code Music’s Future in an Afternoon? Outside LLMs Says Yes
Developed in mere hours at a live event last week and ranked by a panel of judges, the apps are now ready for public voting until demo day on August 4, with final winners feted at the Amazon AWS Loft on August 11, 2025.
TikTok’s ‘Add to Music App’ feature has fuelled ‘billions’ of streams. Now it’s linked up with YouTube Music.
TikTok has been very busy lately expanding the platforms that are integrated with its ‘Add to Music App’ feature, which lets users save songs they found on TikTok to the music streaming service of their choice.
Radio Was Destined to Embrace the Cloud
Jeff McGinley discusses how that plays out at SummitMedia.
Artist Integrity and Creativity in the Age of Music Marketing
As brands become more involved in the music-making process, it can become challenging for artists to maintain their independence.
Changes to TikTok's Music Terms of Service Just Made It Nearly Impossible for DJs to Stream Live
During the pandemic, the TikTok LIVE platform became a hub for bedroom DJ sets and spontaneous music discovery livestreams. But recent changes to TikTok's Music Terms of Service are now forcing many DJs to find a new streaming home.
Are you watching, Disney? Netflix’s ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ becomes most-viewed original animated film in platform’s history
The film, which premiered on June 20, racked up 106.1 million views in its first month.
ElevenLabs makes SourceAudio its ‘preferred music licensing partner’
ElevenLabs is the AI startup that has been creating licensed voice clones of a variety of dead celebrities and artists.
At NRG Media, AI Is Now a Distributed Practice
Erica Dreyer updates us on ways AI tools are being used at the company.
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