Share this postPlatform & StreamSpotify Close to 'Creating Its First Physical Products'; Pandora Gets Personal to Win Back Listeners, AdvertisersCopy linkFacebookEmailNotesMoreSpotify Close to 'Creating Its First Physical Products'; Pandora Gets Personal to Win Back Listeners, AdvertisersPlatform & StreamFeb 21, 2018Share this postPlatform & StreamSpotify Close to 'Creating Its First Physical Products'; Pandora Gets Personal to Win Back Listeners, AdvertisersCopy linkFacebookEmailNotesMoreShareSpotify's long-known plan to create its own streaming device appears to ramping up, if several recent job postings are any indication.Lyor Cohen, YouTube’s global head of music, has told Music Ally that 2018 will be “the year of music for YouTube and Google”.The team's output includes the "RapCaviar Pantheon," a Brooklyn Museum exhibit that rendered hip-hop stars as Greco-Roman-style sculptures.CEO Roger Lynch aims to stem its loss in users with new offerings and more-individualized advertising.Paris-based music streaming service Deezer is making its platform available in Singapore through a partnership with the telco Singtel.The deadline for unaffiliated independent musicians and rightsholders to get paid for use of their music on Facebook by registering with the Harry Fox Agency's Rumblefish division is just 3 weeks away.How did Chance the Rapper, Lil Uzi Vert and other artists have such success building an audience on SoundCloud? Julia Killer has the answer.The key to beating your competition is having better data — not necessarily more of it, but the data your competitors do not have.Vydia has completed a $7 million Series A funding round. The company now has more than 200,000 video creators that distribute, monetize, store and measure content using its centralized platform.From Best Buy to Spotify, the way people get their music has made the shift from the physical store to the iTunes Store, and now to subscription-based streaming.A Bulgarian playlist-maker scammed the Spotify payout system for months last year – and could well have made themselves a millionaire off Daniel Ek’s platform.PreviousNext