Streaming Killed the CD Star; A Fertile Ground for Scammers; Spotify’s New ‘Time Capsule’…
Streaming Killed the CD Star — www.mironline.ca
Streaming Killed the CD Star — www.mironline.ca
If Spotify is to reach its goal of allowing one million artists to live off their music, it is clear that that the platform must reconfigure itself to better pay the artists who drive traffic on their platform.
Hate your favorite band’s latest song? On Spotify, it might be a fake. — www.inputmag.com
Spotify’s third-party distribution platform is flawed, allowing scammers to impersonate popular artists for weeks on end, stealing thousands of streams in the process.
Sonos Radio is linear, curated music for the streaming era — www.smh.com.au
Sonos’ new way to get your favourite stations on your connected speakers also features original music channels based on genres or programmed by artists
Spotify Is Throwing It Back With Personalized ‘Time Capsule’ Playlists — www.billboard.com
Some of us can’t help but reminisce on a simpler time as 2020 continues to get crazier and crazier, and Spotify is helping make that nostalgia a bit easier.
CrowdDJ hits milestone, grows as music influencer during COVID — themusicnetwork.com
Australian app crowdDJ is playing to its strengths during the COVID shutdown, emerging as a significant music influencer.
SoundCloud Explains Why Fashion is Their Next Frontier — www.highsnobiety.com
With its new, ongoing fashion collaboration, the discovery platform for artists wants to become a home for emerging designers, too.
Spotify Video Ads Expands Choices for Podcast Marketing Strategies — www.cmswire.com
With a predicted 15% increase in podcast advertising spending this year, Spotify has expanded its offerings for marketers.
Synaesthetic Debuts the LAVA & LEAP — platformandstream.wordpress.com
Synaesthetic is emerging from stealth mode by unveiling a product teaser video of the LAVA platform (Light for Audio-Visual Augmentation) — a connected projector that streams original content from their mobile app.
Like Spotify before it, podcasts in Amazon Music feel horribly unnecessary — www.androidcentral.com
Amazon Music is the latest app attempting to become all things to all people, and has recently incorporated Twitch live streams and most recently, podcasts into its service. But does this feature-stuffing make for a better user experience?
iHeartRadio Now Available on Apple Watch — in.pcmag.com
You can access music, podcasts, and radio stations through the app — with or without your phone.
‘If you steal music, you aren’t a real music fan’ — www.bbc.com
The music industry is trying to clamp down on the latest form of music piracy known as stream-ripping.
Jewish Advocacy Group Asks Spotify CEO to Remove Antisemitic Rapper Freeze Corleone — www.digitalmusicnews.com
A professional with the Simon Wiesenthal Center has asked Spotify CEO Daniel Ek to remove the antisemitic music of rapper Freeze Corleone.
Esports and Music — www.etownian.com
Music has always been a vital part of the sports industry
SiriusXM and Samsung Canada partner to give users complimentary access to SiriusXM programming — pages.samsung.com
SiriusXM Canada and Samsung Canada announced that users across Samsung’s multiple channels will get access to SiriusXM’s best streaming package, Premier, complimentary for three months.
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