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Music in Slices: How Interactive Music Turns Listeners Into Superfans

Music Tectonics

Oct 10, 2019

Music in Slices: How Interactive Music Turns Listeners Into Superfans

What music fan hasn’t dreamed of playing a solo with their favorite band, or immersing themselves in every detail of their favorite song? In a Music Tectonics first, this podcast episode spans five cities (on two continents) to explore the emerging interactive music market. Leaders of three start-ups explain how their apps invite fans into the music in unique ways: Sarah Janiszewski (Jammer), Frank Østevold (oiid), and Dave Park (SongAI). All these apps use the stems of a so

Full Bandwidth: Hi-Res Streaming with Dan Mackta of Qobuz

Music Tectonics

Oct 3, 2019

Full Bandwidth: Hi-Res Streaming with Dan Mackta of Qobuz

Find out from Dan Mackta, Managing Director at Qobuz USA, today on the podcast. Qobuz lets audiophiles stream studio-quality music from any

Dmitri Vietze

Jul 23, 2019

Music is Like Water: A Seismic Shift

In a 2002 profile in the New York Times, David Bowie said, “'The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music

(Podcast) The Rise of New Streaming Markets: Mark Mulligan’s Midem Keynote

Jeanne Bidault

Jun 4, 2019

(Podcast) The Rise of New Streaming Markets: Mark Mulligan’s Midem Keynote

Listen to Mark Mulligan’s electric Midem keynote address, recorded earlier today in Cannes! Mark, a long term music industry analyst and the managing director of MIDiA Research, presents the 10 trends that will reshape the music industry based on MIDiA’s rigorous analysis. What he has to say about the global music streaming marketplace, audience engagement, and music discovery may surprise you! Since MIDiA is known for their awesome infographics, we’re sharing a few snaps her

Is There a Bright Future Ahead for Pandora?

Caitlin Blackford

Nov 11, 2017

Is There a Bright Future Ahead for Pandora?

Hypebot - November 3, 2017 One of the most prominent uses of artificial intelligence is in voice recognition, which is used in both Google Home and Amazon Echo. Because of these advancements there are four ways that AI could be used for musicians, labels and streaming. Using AI in production and studies would help streamline the musical process, playlist creation and control could utilize voice control for users, lyric translation and content creation via spoken word. While

Caitlin Blackford

Oct 27, 2017

Spotify and Apple Music Get Their Edge

The Verge – October 20, 2017 Starting in 2018, Billboard announced that they will begin counting “hybrid paid/ad-supported platforms” such as Spotify and Apple Music the same as total ad platforms such as YouTube. As of today, Billboard counts all streaming music the same as “on-demand” streams. With this change to counting it means that artists and their labels are more likely to encourage fans to use online streaming options. All in all, it will be a win-win situation for s

Tristra Newyear Yeager

Oct 20, 2017

Streaming — Beyond Good and Evil

It’s time to move on, folks. Sometimes it’s not about good and evil. We need to take the streaming music conversation to more nuanced places

The Ins and Outs of the Streaming Industry

Caitlin Blackford

Oct 6, 2017

The Ins and Outs of the Streaming Industry

Pitchfork – September 25, 2017 So what exactly is streaming doing for the pop music industry? Well, the fact that most people listen to music through a streaming service has changed the way that people write and record music. Because of the amount of data that is collected it provides music industry specialists with information about what listeners are attracted to the most and what isn’t so popular. Artists can curate a “streaming format” that is most affective for their spe

The Last Mile to Music Streaming and the Mother-in-Law Test: VOICE!

Dmitri Vietze

May 10, 2017

The Last Mile to Music Streaming and the Mother-in-Law Test: VOICE!

Do you remember a couple of years ago when music streaming services started to look viable and we all were still scratching our heads at the staying power of terrestrial radio? Some clever people at music industry conferences told us: Even though we are all carrying jukeboxes in our pockets, streaming services still must compete with the simplicity of a knob that you can press to play music instantly. Every car came with one and if you worked with your hands or your eyes, but

Spotify allegedly burying competitor tracks, Facebook testing auto-playing sound and more updates to

Nan Rockey

Aug 30, 2016

Spotify allegedly burying competitor tracks, Facebook testing auto-playing sound and more updates to

The Verge - August 26, 2016 Spotify reportedly burying tracks from artists who give exclusives to competition. Billboard - August 25, 2016 Universal Music's streaming revenues 'more than offset' download and physical declines. Bloomberg - August 22, 2016 Apple weighs iPhone video editing app in renewed pushing on social. recode - August 23, 2016 Facebook is testing autoplaying videos with the sound already on. Music Industry Blog - August 25, 2016 What Frank Ocean's bombastic

Naxos: Data-Rich Music Streaming Service

Music Tectonics

Feb 3, 2016

Naxos: Data-Rich Music Streaming Service

It may come as a surprise that one of the first subscription services offering streaming music was the feisty classical label, Naxos. And this was back in the 1990s. Naxos has always been all about access, about making more repertoire available to a broader audience by offering quality but budget-friendly recordings of great classical works. This mission moved from physical formats to digital delivery, an approach that started with hard drives packed with music and soon shi