Share this postPlatform & StreamWhat’s Next in Digital Music; Is Tech's Future Music's Past?Copy linkFacebookEmailNotesMoreWhat’s Next in Digital Music; Is Tech's Future Music's Past?Platform & StreamOct 07, 2016Share this postPlatform & StreamWhat’s Next in Digital Music; Is Tech's Future Music's Past?Copy linkFacebookEmailNotesMoreShareMusic executives discuss fan likes and dislikes (such as single-platform releases, Beyoncé), the power of radio, Spotify and social media influencers, and why most musicians can’t make a living now no one pays for music.The first major comprehensive study of Australians’ audio consumption has found that the entry of global players such as Pandora, Spotify and Apple Music have failed to dent radio’s dominance of the audio landscape.Shazam CEO Rich Riley talks hitting one billion app downloads, finally turning a profit and the future of the brand.Dozens of executives, most recently Lyor Cohen and Troy Carter, are following Jimmy Iovine to Silicon Valley. But are music machers the best candidates to bridge the two cultures?Australia's radio industry has joined forces to launch an app with 250 stations from commercial and public networks. Apple's Jimmy Iovine acknowledged in a recent interview that it tried to do too much with Apple Music and is now trying to get it right.SoundCloud's big differentiator is its offering of unofficial, user-uploaded content that the major labels don't release and that isn't on Spotify or Apple..The brand new Google Home is just the latest in the tech giant’s attempt to take over our lives. The smart home device is decorative and pretty useful aroundThis morning, just like every Monday morning, 75 million Spotify users received a great new mixtape: 30 songs that feel like a gift from a music-loving friend, who might once have made a cassette tape with your name scrawled across the front. But these playlists, from Spotify's Discover Weekly service, were cooked up by an algorithm.PreviousNext