Spotify to Stream 33 ⅓ Album Book Series; How Bob Goodlatte Saved the Music Industry; Will…
Spotify to offer audio books after striking deal for 33 ⅓ series — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
Spotify to offer audio books after striking deal for 33 ⅓ series — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
Spotify 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.
How Bob Goodlatte just saved the music industry — www.roanoke.com
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,
TIDAL accused of deliberately faking Kanye West and Beyoncé streaming numbers — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
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.
Pandora Learns the Cost of Ads, and of Subscriptions — www.wired.com
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.
‘Big data is about to become a very big problem for the music industry.’ — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
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.
One of the World’s Largest Private Collections of Latin Music Is Online — remezcla.com
The Gladys Palmera collection, which holds more than 50,000 volumes, has gone digital.
How Spotify’s changing the production and marketing of music — medium.com
Music revenue increased by 16.5 percent in 2017. But not everyone in the industry is breaking out the champagne bottles.
Why Does So Much New Music Drop at the Same Time Each Friday? — pigeonsandplanes.com
Industry experts explain why so many artists release new music on the same day each week.
Spotify tests consumer interest in a bundle with both Hulu and Scribd’s audiobooks — techcrunch.com
The streaming service is considering expanding its entertainment bundle offerings to include one with Scribd’s audiobooks service, too.
Music Biz Marks 60th Anniversary Amid Great Change — www.billboard.com
The conference will spotlight how businesses have adapted to the music industry’s evolution from CDs to streaming.
Will podcasting eat radio? — medium.com
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.