Spotify Rolls Out “Ad Studio” Beta for Indie Artists & Labels; Will the Music Industry Embrace Voice-Controlled Technology?

On trend with the Spotify’s numerous recent acquisitions and the release of the Spotify for Artists toolset, the streaming site has quietly rolled out another useful tool with huge implication.

For those of you following technology industry trends, it would not be surprising that many experts have been calling 2017 the “Year of Voice”. Along with VR and AI, voice recognition has the potential for highly meaningful long-term development.

WPP veteran Sheila Spence joins next week.

Vevo, the music video service most easily recognized for its presence on YouTube, is putting more faith and resources into TV. The company is today releasing a refined app for tvOS, designed to...

Jimmy Iovine, the longtime recording industry mogul currently heading up Apple Music, hates free music—an idea to which Spotify, Apple's biggest music streaming competitor, is stubbornly clinging.

On May 11, YouTube released the first part of an RBB Economics study that it says will show how it helps the recorded-music business.

With recent speculation about Spotify soon going public (without an IPO) and the belated launch of Pandora Premium, the music streaming space is increasingly nearing both maturity and saturation.

Hitwise Music Streaming Data Identifies Significant Behavioral Differences - 05/19/2017

Spotify’s global head of creator services made the comment during a keynote interview at the Music Biz Convention.

Rhapsody, the Seattle-based company that operates the Napster subscription music service, is cutting an undisclosed number of jobs, part of an effort to sh