Sonos Says The Music Industry Is About To Explode Again
The battleground for Beyonce: Are music streaming platforms helping new artists? — www.startupsmart.com.au
These exclusive deals — a relatively recent phenomenon, appearing with the launch of new platforms — constitute attempts to attract new customers by siloing those artists with the biggest fan bases But this trend, necessitating multiple subscriptions to different streaming platforms if one is to keep up to date with new releases, may be unsustainable.
Spotify acquires Preact to fuel its subscription business — techcrunch.com
Spotify — the music streaming service with 40 million paying subscribers — has made an acquisition that it hopes will help it hold on to them, and build..
Why does Apple keep making life more difficult for music makers? — www.chartattack.com
The controversial new MacBook Pro makes us wonder whether Apple is still making its products for creative people.
Napster sides with Kanye: Exec says exclusive streaming deals are ‘anti-consumer’ and ‘anti-artist’ — www.geekwire.com
Exclusive streaming deals with artists have become a powerful, but controversial, source of ammunition in the digital music battle. In an interview with Ge
Sonos Says The Music Industry Is About To Explode Again, And It’s Ready — www.fastcompany.com
Over a decade ago, Sonos smartly bet on music-over-Wi-Fi. Now CMO Joy Howard looks ahead to a future where music is built into every home.
What We’ve Lost In The Age Of Streaming Music — www.hypebot.com
Here Paul Cantor laments the lost age of downloadable mix tapes, bootlegs, and artist catalogues as well as other forms of content no longer available on streaming services like Spotify or Apple Music, plus the the demise of the blogs which once contained them.
Saavn Pro Is Now Available for Data-Free Listening on Singtel Music — platformandstream.wordpress.com
Saavn, India’s leading audio entertainment streaming platform, today announced that it will be partnering with Singtel Music to provide Singtel Postpaid Mobile customers unlimited music at no data charges on Saavn Pro.