Spotify Ends Direct Music Uploads for Indie Artists; Epidemic Sound Raises $20M; LÜM Debuts Music…
Spotify ends direct music uploads for indie artists — www.engadget.com Indie artists will no longer have the option to upload music…
Spotify ends direct music uploads for indie artists — www.engadget.com
Indie artists will no longer have the option to upload music directly to Spotify — not that they’ll necessarily mind. Spotify is shutting down the upload beta…
Epidemic Sound raises $20M at a $370M valuation for its soundtrack music discovery and licensing platform — techcrunch.com
The rise of streamed video has seen the market for licensing streamed music boom in the last few years, with not only consumers using video as a medium to listen to tracks but video creators also extensively using music as part of their own productions.
Spotify to stop displaying playlist follower counts…possibly — here.org.uk
Yesterday I noticed that the Spotify Windows desktop app had changed and instead of a “follow” button under a playlist there was now a heart icon.
LÜM Delivers New Music Streaming, Discovery Experience with Launch of Mobile App — platformandstream.com
LÜM, the Madison-based tech startup that recently closed their $1.2 million seed financing, announced the launch of its new app for iOS devices.
Karaoke is coming to Teslas, and a music streaming service could be on the way — www.techradar.com
The Sketchpad app is also getting a boost, so you’ll have no excuse for getting bored while your car’s charging.
Netflix needs music, but music doesn’t need Netflix — haulixdaily.com
The streaming wars are upon us, and Netflix needs to take action before a competitor steals one of the biggest niche audiences.
China silences podcast and music apps as online crackdown widens — techcrunch.com
Audio apps are flying high in China. In 2018, online listeners in the country grew 22.1% to surpass 400 million, at a rate far exceeding that of the mobile video and e-reading populations, according to market researcher iiMedia.
The True Importance of Metadata — www.anarapublishing.com
Metadata is a term you’ve probably heard a lot of people in the music industry talk about. Here we discuss why it’s so important for you to get this right.
Primephonic Wants to Save Classical Music, 1 Stream at a Time — www.pcmag.com
In the US, only 1 percent of the total music consumed is classical, and an even smaller percentage of that is streamed, in part because music-streaming services are not set up to reward 20-minute classical pieces.
Live radio playback hits some HomePods and iPhones ahead of iOS 13 — venturebeat.com
Testing in Germany reveals that one of iOS 13’s new features, playback of live radio stations, is already partially working on iOS 12.3 devices.
Nielsen Counts Half-a-Trillion Music Streams — In Just the First Six Months of This Year — www.digitalmusicnews.com
In Nielsen’s Mid-Year Music report for 2019, music streaming rose to over 507 billion streams, and movies and documentaries led to more catalog consumption.
Audio streaming growth fell by 5% in the United States in the first half of 2019 — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
The party’s definitely not over — but it might be showing its very first signs of winding down.
Spotify’s Big Data Spin — seekingalpha.com
A legal remedy to big data continues to flummox regulators across the developed world. In the meantime, revenue from digital advertising continues to swell Goo
Film soundtracks are still 80% of music consumption in India — musically.com
Spotify India’s MD Amarjit Singh Batra said that film-music still generates 80% of the music industry’s revenue in India, with the majority of this coming from Bollywood soundtracks
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