Staccs’ User-Centric Model Expands Industry Opportunity; Deezer Adds New CEO, Apple Watch Offline Listening; Will Smart Speakers Change Music Forever?

As Staccs helps artists and rights owners collect better royalty payments, it is also uncovering new, untapped commercial opportunities in the music industry.

Music streaming service Deezer has revamped its Apple Watch app to let you listen to music without an internet connection. It’s a useful feature that’s currently missing from Spotify’s Apple Watch app.

He takes over the position from Hans-Holger Albrecht, who has overseen the streaming company’s transformation and growth since 2015. Read on for the full story…

Spotify is further expanding into audiobooks — but not in the way you may think.

How will smart speakers change the way we listen, consume and share music?

NetEase strikes a deal with Sony Music Entertainment to license music directly from the international music conglomerate.

French collecting society SACEM has announced it has signed a new deal with Spotify which, it says, has been agreed as the rights organisation “addresses challenges related to the platform’s launch of new offerings and expansion into new territories”.

Nearly a hundred years ago in July 1921, the entertainment world changed forever thanks to the efforts of David Sarnoff, a Belarusian emigree to the US who headed up the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).…

Spotify has announced that its Wear app would be getting the feature to download playlists and podcasts for offline and away from phone use on Wear devices. The announcement came as part of a larger focus from Google on Wear OS, its smartwatch platform.

When I was serving as AIMP president from 2015-2018 we came up with a definition of what made a publisher “independent,” but in two years the landscape has radically changed.

Learn what audio file formats are, what types are common and how to choose the best one. From compression to bitrate, here's what to know.

iHeartRadio's John Sykes talks about the the podcast boom and chairing the Rock Hall of Fame and Lisa Worden looks back on her time at KROQ.

Hipgnosis has been a driving force behind artists selling their bodies of work. Can the song fund deliver on its promise to songwriters and shareholders?

Cladius who had spent several years at the Universal Music Group and has had an expansive digital knowledge of the business itself claims that Pakistan’s music scene is large in regards to Spotify.

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