Share this postSpotify to Stream 33 ⅓ Album Book Series; How Bob Goodlatte Saved the Music Industry; Will Podcasting Eat Radio?platformstream.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherSpotify to Stream 33 ⅓ Album Book Series; How Bob Goodlatte Saved the Music Industry; Will Podcasting Eat Radio?Platform & StreamMay 09, 2018Share this postSpotify to Stream 33 ⅓ Album Book Series; How Bob Goodlatte Saved the Music Industry; Will Podcasting Eat Radio?platformstream.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherShareSpotify is adding audio books to its bank of streamed content after signing an exclusive deal with UK-based publisher Bloomsbury Publishing.Through the deal, Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series of short books about popular music will be made available on the streaming service worldwide in a variety of formats.If you like to listen to music digitally through, say, Pandora or Spotify, you may soon find a wider range of artists available through your favorite streaming service. For this,You might recall that, in the deep dark recesses of music streaming history – ie. two years ago – Jay Z-owned TIDAL left many in the music business scratching their heads.A 21-month study finds that as users are fed more ads, they listen less; some subscribe, but not enough to compensate for lost ad revenue.If you have been to any media conference or read any trade magazine over the past several years, you would know that ‘big data’ was going to be the answer to all of the woes of the music industry.The Gladys Palmera collection, which holds more than 50,000 volumes, has gone digital.Music revenue increased by 16.5 percent in 2017. But not everyone in the industry is breaking out the champagne bottles.Industry experts explain why so many artists release new music on the same day each week.The streaming service is considering expanding its entertainment bundle offerings to include one with Scribd’s audiobooks service, too.The conference will spotlight how businesses have adapted to the music industry’s evolution from CDs to streaming.Last week saw Edison Research release its latest Podcast Consumer data. It’s a good piece of research that is the most quoted data about podcasting.PreviousNext