No SoundCloud for Spotify; Getting 50-Somethings to Pay for Streaming Music
Nielsen Is In Advanced Talks to Buy Gracenote — variety.com
Nielsen is looking to acquire Gracenote to beef up its content recognition capabilities.
Spotify walks away from acquisition of SoundCloud — www.cnbc.com
Spotify has abandoned its bid to takeover SoundCloud as it was seen as negatively impacting its upcoming initial public offering, TechCrunch reports.
Getting 50-Somethings to Pay for Streaming Music — www.wsj.com
Hooking older consumers on paid streaming is important for the music industry, which is counting on revenue from subscription streaming services to replace declining CD and download sales. Music Aficionado, launched in January, is one site trying to promote streaming to the senior crowd.
The MacallanVoice: Next Big Sound Empowers Musicians With Big Data — www.forbes.com
The next big thing in music is big data.
Metallica’s Lars Ulrich: ‘I’m As Much In Favor Of Streaming As Most Other People Are’ — www.blabbermouth.net
“If you were in a band, I would never take your music and put it up on the Internet without asking you. That’s just the way I roll.
“It’s all worked out fine for everybody, and I’m as much in favor of streaming as most other people are.”
Large Scale Experimentation at Spotify — www.infoq.com
When you want to scale the number of A/B tests to do many experiments at the same time, you need to adopt your processes and platform, and it might also impact your culture, claimed Ben Dressler, experimentation lead at Spotify.