Pandora’s New Marketing Platform; Spotify Serves First Vertical Video Ads
Garth Brooks Inks Exclusive Streaming Deal With Amazon Music — variety.com
Country music star Garth Brooks is Amazon’s latest weapon in the music-streaming wars.
Pandora Rolls Out the Next Generation of Its Artist Marketing Platform — platformandstream.wordpress.com
Pandora today revealed the next generation of its Artist Marketing Platform (AMP), a powerful evolution of Pandora’s unique suite of marketing tools that includes Artist Audio Messages, Featured Tracks and AMPcast.
Device Restricted Music Subscriptions Are Coming… — www.hypebot.com
Apple’s decision to ditch the headphone jack highlighted the idea that future music services might soon be device specific, and it looks as though Amazon is taking the plunge by offering a subscription service with a strict one device limit.
Spotify App Not Coming to Apple TV ‘Anytime Soon’ — www.macrumors.com
A conversation thread on Github between a few developers and Spotify project leader Samuel Erdtman has confirmed that the streaming music company…
The new gatekeepers: Streaming platforms are taking over the music industry — blog.village.fm
In 2012, when EMI sold to Universal and Sony, then-CEO Roger Faxon told reporters that “major record labels, if they ever were, are no longer the gatekeepers. It’s the music that matters, not the source anymore.
Spotify Serves First Vertical Video Ads in ‘Branded Moments’ — adage.com
Spotify is serving its first vertical video ads through a new “branded moments” offering that gives people 30 minutes of free music after a commercial message.
Sony develops algorithm based AI music — www.reuters.com
A future chart-topping song may soon come from an algorithm.
Rise of music streaming services: new challenges for the music industry — www.reportlinker.com
While the evolution is far from over, music streaming services are not simply the latest stage. They also represent a paradigm shift.
The Record Labels Of The Future Are Already Here — www.forbes.com
By thinking and acting more entrepreneurially, emerging independent record labels are paving a more sustainable and relevant future for themselves.
Music Streaming Services Popularity Statistics: Moving Up The Charts! — www.reportlinker.com
While these services aren’t quite mainstream yet, the market is growing steadily. Nearly 68M people stream music today, up from just 8M in 2010.
Columbia’s Rob Stringer Named CEO of Sony Music — www.billboard.com
Columbia Records chairman and CEO Rob Stringer has been named chief executive officer of Sony Music Entertainment, it was announced on Oct. 18. He will report to Michael Lynton, CEO of Sony Entertainment. Current SME CEO Doug Morris will transition to the role of Chairman in April 2017.