The Sandbox Guide to… online launch events
Using online events to publicise a new release – or other major announcement – is what counts in 2022. But it’s also easy for one to fizzle out on the launchpad. So whether you want to sneak out snippets on TikTok, or build a virtual showcase in Roblox, this Sandbox Guide explains how to create […]
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Tools :: Cirkay
Cirkay co-founder Simon Scott has a lot of thoughts about web3 technology and how it connects with fans. “No one is going to become a fan unless they buy something” is one. “The most important thing that web3 has got to do for an artist is to make fans buy again” is another, as is, “In […]
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Behind The Campaign: Rêve
Canadian singer Rêve broke through in her home country with her third single, ‘CTRL + ALT + DEL’ in September 2021, and it has since been certified gold there. The team at Universal Music Canada talk through the campaign and their plans for the future.
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Report claims YouTube is bigger than Spotify for podcasts
Remember the speculation – very much encouraged by Spotify – that it was overtaking Apple for podcast listening?
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YouTube trumpets ‘momentum’ stats at its Brandcast event
We know the key stats around YouTube’s music business. It paid out $4bn to the music industry in the year to June 2021.
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T-Pain is launching his own tips hotline… with Tidal
Hip-hop veteran T-Pain has a new single out called ‘That’s Just Tips’, and he’s very much leaning into the theme with his latest marketing wheeze.
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Instagram kicks off its test of new NFT-sharing feature
As TikTok found out last year, there are pitfalls for a huge social media platform doing anything with NFTs.
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IAB predicts US podcast revenues will reach $2bn in 2022
Advertising industry body the IAB has published its latest forecasts for podcast ad revenues in the US.
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Napster gets bought again, this time with a web3 pivot in the works
Napster has been acquired again, this time by two companies from the web3 sector: Hivemind and Algorand.
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Jazz artist Mike Casey’s new album is also a playable app
In 2019, jazz musician Mike Casey talked to Music Ally about how he’d grown his audience through streaming playlists.
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Music NFTs roundup: Water & Music, Opulous, RCRDSHP…
What’s happening out there in Music NFTs-land today? Plenty, starting with the latest public analysis from Water & Music of the music NFTs space.
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RIAA steps up its efforts to tackle music piracy on Discord
Discord is a wonderful platform for community building, and a number of musicians are already reaping the benefits.
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Help Musicians launches Music Minds Matter Explore site
British charity Help Musicians has launched a new website called Music Minds Matter Explore.
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Meta’s Horizon Venues is now part of its Horizon Worlds
Meta is bringing two of its virtual spaces together: Horizon Venues and Horizon Worlds
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Coldplay launch an app for their Music of the Spheres tour
Artist apps are still a thing: witness Coldplay’s new Android and iOS app, released for the band’s ‘Music of the Spheres’ tour.
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DistroKid beta tests a music video distribution service
Music distributor DistroKid has a new off-shoot: DistroVid. As the name suggests, it’s focusing on music videos rather than audio tracks.
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Another beats marketplace launches… from UnitedMasters
We reported yesterday on the launch of subscription-based service Beatopia, but now distributor UnitedMasters wants in on the action.
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Block financials hint at Tidal’s latest revenue figures
Tidal’s owner Block is a public company, so we’re getting quarterly insights into how the streaming service’s own financials.
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Live Nation’s Q1 2022: ‘Fan demand has never been stronger’
The live industry’s efforts to bounce back from Covid-19 continue, with Live Nation hailing Q1 2022 as its “best first quarter ever”.
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Labels and publishers reach agreement on US physical / download mechanicals
In recent years, the process of setting mechanical royalty rates for streaming in the US has led to rancorous fallouts
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‘Father of the iPod’ Tony Fadell: ‘F*** the metaverse!’
It’s useful (not to mention bracing) to hear from people who are decidedly unexcited by this technology.
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Facebook and TikTok add new ways for users to make money
There is keen interest in how the big social media platforms’ systems for sharing money with creators are evolving.
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Patreon survey offers more data on the creator economy
Crowdfunding firm Patreon has published its first ‘Creator Census’, based on a survey of more than 13,000 people.
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Mandolin debuts livestreaming venue and promoter network
What happens to music livestreams once artists are back out on the road with physical concerts?
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Sonos is preparing to launch its own voice assistant
Voice assistants have been at the heart of Sonos’s arguments with Google and Amazon in recent years.
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SyncMama targets creators with ‘royalty-included’ music licensing service
With its plethora of short-video apps, and a huge audience on YouTube and other social media platforms, India is home to hundreds of thousands of content creators.
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‘Be The Change’ report reiterates challenges for women in the music industry
Midia Research has published a second ‘Be The Change’ report exploring the challenges faced by women in the music industry.
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Behind The Campaign :: Lucy Dacus
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Campaigns :: 4 May 2022 – Slipknot, Marvin Gaye, Beardyman, Get It Right (From A Genuine Site)
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Tools :: Subtext
While being active on the big social media platforms is part of virtually any artist’s job, it’s often other places we think of when it comes to truly nurturing fanbases. If artists want to ensure their messages reach their audiences, SMS marketing can be an effective solution and Subtext has a pretty strong offer for […]
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Report: NFTs market is ‘flatlining’ with 92% volume decline
The Wall Street Journal isn’t beating about the bush in its latest article about NFTs. “The NFT market is collapsing,” is the very first sentence.
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Facebook audio shakeup: podcasts and Spotify integration go
In April 2021, Facebook signified its intentions to do more with audio. Just over a year later, how’s that going?
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MyPart and Hit Songs Deconstructed launch analytics service
There’s a new music analytics platform in town. ChartCipher is the result of a partnership between MyPart and Hit Songs Deconstructed.
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SoundCloud acquires AI music-tagging startup Musiio
SoundCloud has acquired Musiio, the Singapore-based startup that has developed a service offering AI-powered analysis and tagging of music catalogues.
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Spotify launches on Roblox with music-making features
Spotify is the latest music company exploring the potential of gaming platform Roblox: and its ‘Spotify Island’ is about creating music as well as listening to it.
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Spotify tests on-platform pre-saves with Florence + The Machine
Spotify is testing a new feature that will enable listeners to ‘pre-save’ albums in the weeks before they are released. Its first test launched today with British artist Florence + The Machine.
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Splice launches AI-powered music creation platform as AI music continues to find its place
We’ve written a lot about AI music creation and how initial and understandable pangs of concern from human songwriters
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Music NFTs roundup: Nomad Media Club, Soundpickr, and OP3N
It’s still not clear exactly how the web3 and NFT space will shake out into a suite of common services for fans and artists, but we are getting closer to understanding.
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“999 Stories of Mental Health” campaign launched in memory of Juice WRLD
It’s Mental Health Awareness Month in the USA, and a new “testimonial awareness campaign” called “999 Stories of Mental Health” has been launched by Carmela Wallace
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4,000 ‘Creators for Ukraine’ call for Russian invasion to end
In March, collecting societies body CISAC launched a ‘Creators for Ukraine’ support fund for victims of the war.
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