Orfium: A Streaming Platform and Royalty Tracker in One
Pandora’s Ad-Free $5 Plan Now Open for Sign-Ups — variety.com
Pandora is relaunching its ad-free tier amidst heightened competition from Amazon.
Meet Orfium: A Streaming Platform and Royalty Tracker in One — ajournalofmusicalthings.com
Filtering what’s happening in music to save you time, money and effort.
Shazam rolls out in-app music video channels with Vadio — techcrunch.com
Song identifying app Shazam is rolling out music video channels to all of its 120 million monthly active users in a partnership with Vadio, a Portland-based..
FreshTunes Launches Offering 100% Free Music Distribution To Spotify, Apple, All Major Services — hypebot — www.hypebot.com
In the digital age, music distribution has become a commodity, and like most commodities the price is almost constantly moving downward. Companies like CDBaby, TuneCore and OnePRM offer flat fee or low cost services and now FreshTunes has driven the price to zero.
YouTube Found a Way to Pay Artists: Better Branding Deals. — www.digitalmusicnews.com
Google has acquired online brand marketplace FameBit in a move to strengthen its YouTube partner program. Both companies promise to help creators.
Spotify taps supermodel Jourdan Dunn for its first Playlist Takeover — venturebeat.com
Music streaming service Spotify today announced the launch of Playlist Takeover, a new series of original recordings in which stars recommend music.
Amazon Seeks To Recapture Music Fans With New Streaming Service — www.npr.org
With Amazon Music Unlimited, the company is seeking to lure consumers away from competitors like Spotify and Apple Music — and it might be a game-changing proposition.
Bruno Crolot named General Manager of Spotify France and Benelux — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
The position will hand Crolot the task of defining and deploying Spotify’s development strategy in France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg.
New Music: Stream An Album By Test Pattern, Fred Armisen And Bill Hader’s Talking Heads Parody Band — www.spin.com
Today, Armisen and Hader also shared a full-length album from Test Pattern, featuring music used in the show.