Top 5 Challenges in Streaming; Ray Davies; Digital Audio Players; Streaming Data

Streaming is a fundamentally different business to selling discs and downloads, in that it’s not about upfront sales, but continued and repeat listening.

Which is to say, it’s no longer about how many records you can sell on release, but about whether or not you can persuade fans to listen to your music again and again and again over a long period of time. The goal, therefore, is sustained listening.

Consumers are no longer getting their entertainment fix from movie and music stores. Consumers are streaming media content from OTT providers like Netflix and Hulu for movies and Spotify for music, which has seen people across different market segments cut ties with cable and other forms of traditional media.

The legendary Kinks frontman has said that the format provides an effective way of policing music, but does not pay artists adequately.

Getting people to play audio on social platforms is hard. The majority of users have their sound turned off and most (70%) are on a mobile device. NPR isn’t alone in this; the industry as a whole has…

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Some Spotify users have started seeing a new style for the contextual menu that shows up when you tap the overflow button next to a song or album... by Rita El Khoury in Applications, News

Restaurants agonize constantly over ways to eke the most money out of their customers.

Kobalt-owned label AWAL publicly unveiled a new app designed to collect and display a slew of data gleaned from each artist's presence on the two leading streaming services in the business, Spotify and Apple Music.

As SoundCloud reportedly continues struggling and considers selling, one of the leaders in electronic music software and hardware just acquired a music and remix streaming and rights management platform called Metapop. It also hired former CEO of online electronic music store Beatport. That is notable for a few reasons.

Does anyone use digital audio players? Anybody? Pioneer and Onkyo are both releasing new DAPs in the UK — the XDP-30R and the Rubato DP-S1, respectively — but who actually listens to music on the...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a bid by major record labels to revive copyright infringement claims against video-sharing website Vimeo LLC for hosting content that included songs by famed bands such as the Beatles, the Jackson 5 and the Beach Boys without permission.

This is a signal that musicians at all levels increasingly have access to the same platforms used by the most successful artists in the world.