Lefsetz on musical.ly; 4 Ways AI Startups Can Target the Music Industry; Will Taylor Swift Stream?

It’s about innovation. For all the scuttlebutt about the power of Facebook, if it didn’t buy WhatsApp and Instagram it would be struggling now, kinda like Apple, why does everybody always look at today instead of tomorrow?

Musical.ly is looking at tomorrow, Generation Z. Musical.ly is all about the here and now, about making a video and posting it instantly. You almost want to participate, until you realize you’ll never be that skinny, and your aged body can’t take the workout.

Four executives at major streaming services said they did not expect “Reputation” to be made available for streaming, at least at first.

Major Russian social networking websites, VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, and the music streaming service Boom have introduced restrictions on free music streaming at the request of rights holders as the owner, Mail.ru Group, moves to monetize the streaming service, which replaced illegitimate, user-generated content.

Are you an independent artist who's wondering how you get your music on Spotify? Follow these simple steps to learn how to get your music on Spotify!

Startups have a lot of room to disrupt the music industry with AI and voice recognition.

CDJs may have made mixing easier, but they've also ushered in an exciting new era of DJing. Michelle Lhooq reflects on the possibilities they've unlocked.

After the “Tiny Human” disaster, Ujo has returned with a new offering to musicians, and a publicity video. It's Bandcamp, but on the blockchain, and worse in every way.

Video and music search engine Pex has weighed in to the value-gap debate, with new data based on its indexing of more than 6.1bn videos and songs.

Gaps in Pandora’s ad tech stack slowed growth in the last quarter, CEO Roger Lynch said Thursday in his first earnings call since taking the helm.

The way that hits are now calculated, impossibly long albums may be on the horizon.