eMarketer predicts tenfold slowdown of social-media ad growth
“Who killed the social media ad boom?” asked the Financial Times on Friday, in a piece sparked by the estimates from research firm eMarketer.
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WIN opens up new international networking project for indies
Global independent body WIN is launching a new project called ‘WINHUB’ as part of its efforts to connect members around the world.
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FTC plans to question Zuckerberg in case to block Within deal
Meta bought the developer of popular VR music game Beat Saber in 2019 without a hitch, and may have expected similar for Within.
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Amazon lays off some Amp staff but says still focused on growth
Amazon unveiled the Amp app in March, with artists, radio hosts, journalists and listeners able to launch their own music station and play DJ.
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Deezer revenues rise but subscriber total declines slightly
Deezer is the latest digital music company to publish its financial results for the third quarter of 2022.
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Elon Musk’s Twitter: paid verification, moderation council and more
You wouldn’t get a prize for predicting that Elon Musk’s first few days in charge of Twitter would be eventful, for better or worse.
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Apple services revenue up 5% as subscribers top 900m
Business is still good for Apple: the tech giant posted record quarterly revenues in Q3 this year (its fiscal Q4), up 8% year-on-year to $90.15bn.
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Universal Music Group Q3 revenues up 23.7% year-on-year
Universal Music Group has reported another strong quarter, with its Q3 revenues up 23.7% year-on-year to €2.66bn ($2.65bn) – or up 13.3% at constant currency, which translates last year’s figures to today’s exchange rates. Whichever metric you go with, UMG’s business is growing well.
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Instagram now has more than 2bn monthly active users
Something we missed in our report on Meta’s latest financial results yesterday: CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed a new milestone stat for its Instagram service.
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Opulous litepaper reveals ‘Royalty Vault’ and advances plans
“Q4 is product time. Let’s make history,” tweeted Opulous, the web3 spin-off from distributor Ditto Music, yesterday.
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Peloton has ‘indefinitely paused’ use of Kanye West’s music
Streaming services are uncomfortable with the idea of removing Kanye West’s catalogue due to his recent round of interviews expressing antisemitic views.
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Music Ally Quarterly Report :: Music/tech Startups 2022
While NFTs stole the headlines in 2022, a raft of other exciting developments took place, and various music/tech startups took leaps and bounds as they strove to create new technological opportunities for creativity, commerce, or collaboration in the music space. In this report, we take stock and figure out what it means – and what happens […]
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CISAC and SCAPR publish their annual collections figures
Collecting societies body CISAC has published its annual Global Collections Report this morning, revealing the latest figures and trends from its member bodies.
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Black Lives in Music unveils its industry anti-racism code
British organisation Black Lives in Music has announced its anti-racism code for the music industry, which will be adopted in 2023 with the backing of industry bodies and the UK’s Independent Standards Authority.
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Sony Music, WMG and Ticketmaster back ‘Own Our Venues’ campaign
UK charity the Music Venue Trust launched its ‘Own Our Venues’ campaign earlier this year with the aim of raising enough money to buy the freeholds of independent music venues, and thus safeguard their futures.
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Songwriter tools: Session x SONA, and Bridger gets collaborative
Accurate metadata is going to be the lifeblood for songwriters in the future (or, to put it less positively, inaccurate or missing metadata has been a big problem for them in the streaming era thus far).
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89% of British adults are still weekly radio listeners
The next time that somebody flippantly tells you that music streaming has already ‘killed’ radio, point them in the direction of the latest figures from British radio industry body Rajar.
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Music Ally SI:X 2022 :: meet the 36 finalists in our startups contest
Earlier this year, we launched Music Ally SI:X, our new, global music startups contest. Today, we’re announcing the 36 finalists.
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Audiobooks are the latest spark in Spotify-Apple battle
Spotify launched audiobooks in the US recently, but the process of buying them is far too complicated and confusing – according to Spotify!
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Volumetric capture startup Tetavi raises $15m and rebrands
It’s a mark of the pace at which things are moving that the first time Music Ally is writing about Tetavi, it’s already rebranding.
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YellowHeart sets its ticketing sights on the metaverse
We first wrote about YellowHeart in 2019, when it emerged as a blockchain ticketing startup backed by EDM duo the Chainsmokers.
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Meta and Tidal team up for new series of virtual concerts
Could musicians be part of the solution to disappointing usage figures for Meta’s Horizon Worlds virtual world?
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Musicians’ Union publishes ‘Misogyny in Music’ inquiry response
The Musicians’ Union’s response to the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee ‘Misogyny in Music’ inquiry has been published.
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Spotify pushes back on pressure to remove Ye’s music
Ek said that if Ye’s recent “awful comments” had been made on a podcast or a music track, it would have been removed for being hate speech.
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Alphabet financials reveal decline in YouTube ad revenues
YouTube’s advertising revenues were down 1.9% year-on-year in Q3: a rare decline for one of tech firm Alphabet’s key business lines.
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Spotify reaches 195m subs and hints at future price rise
The cost-of-living crisis isn’t biting yet for Spotify’s premium business. It’s expecting to cross the 200m milestone by the end of this year.
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Lil Durk preps a ‘music IPO’ with Grand Theft Auto perks
The latest artist hoping to sell fans a share of his royalties is US rapper Lil Durk, with a gaming tie-in to his plans for a “music IPO”.
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Spotify encourages artists to prepare for Wrapped 2022
Spotify is preparing for its annual Wrapped promo, where artists and fans alike share their streaming stats for the year.
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Unionisation afoot for YouTube and Netflix music workers
The topic of unionised workers within and around the music industry is growing in prominence, with two more stories to add to the trend.
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Chinese firm Kuaishou is Merlin’s latest licensing partner
Kuaishou has a global footprint: more than 45 million users of its separate Kwai app in Brazil for example.
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The 1975 set to be Amazon Music’s next concert livestream
Amazon Music really does have the bit between its teeth when it comes to livestreamed concerts.
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CAA ends relationship with Ye after antisemitic comments
It’s been a troubling few weeks watching Ye (formerly Kanye West) making antisemitic comments in a series of interviews.
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Will Apple Music subscription rise spur rivals to follow?
If Apple’s move paves the way for its rivals to follow suit, this may be a significant moment. Can we quantify the impact?
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Events Coordinator, Ticketing and Marketing – Islington Assembly Hall – London
Islington Assembly Hall is a busy mid-sized venue in the heart of London. We are looking for an Events Coordinator who has experience of ticketing and/or marketing to join our team. A passion for events and a good eye for detail is essential for the role. The successful candidate will join a busy team with […]
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Call for entries :: Music Ally Sandbox Marketing Campaigns of the Year 2022
Every December, our final Sandbox report of the year highlights the best, most original and most impactful music marketing campaigns from around the world.
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TikTok hits back at Forbes allegations over tracking tech
TikTok is on the defensive again, after a report by Forbes making some very serious allegations about the app.
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British artist Shygirl debuts new music video on OnlyFans
Subscription platform OnlyFans has been increasingly keen to talk about its potential for creators beyond the adult entertainment industry.
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SCAPR opens up International Performer Numbers with UMG
Collecting societies body SCAPR is opening up its IPN [International Performer Number] system beyond its PRO members.
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Pepsi follows Coca-Cola with new emerging artists initiative
Launched last year as a pilot program, it’s now essentially an artist incubator being run with distributor UnitedMasters.
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Finnish startup Gixon launches live music bookings app in UK
Gixon is a startup from Finland that launched in 2021 and aims to make it easier to book artists for live performances.
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Spotify turns to Twitch star Pokimane for latest campaign
Moroccan-Canadian streamer Imane ‘Pokimane’ Anys is one of the biggest Twitch stars, with 9.3 million followers there.
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BeatBread is building a network of investors in artists
Startup BeatBread’s technology automates the process of paying advances to artists based on their projected streaming revenues.
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web3 DSP Audius buys online-concerts startup SoundStage·fm
Audius’s take on ‘web3 music streaming’ has focused mainly on its decentralised nature and its plans for tokens.
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Pinterest ups music activities with WMG, Merlin and BMG
Of all the social media platforms, Pinterest might be the one most under the radar for the music industry.
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Activist groups team up for ‘Break up Ticketmaster’ campaign
Live Nation and Ticketmaster completed their merger in January 2010, after receiving regulatory approvals.
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Behind The Single – 19th October 2022
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Behind The Campaign :: Nova Twins
Melissa Fernie (head of audience engagement at FUGA), Peter Capstick (label manager of Marshall Records) and Rupert King (Blue Raincoat Artists, the artist management arm of Blue Raincoat Music) explain why the band signed to Marshall Records for their new album, how their campaigning around Black identity and gender identity gave them new impetus, where careful audience segmentation refined and grew their fanbase marketing and why Discord is proving the perfect platform for them.
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Campaigns :: 19 October 2022 – Ed Sheeran, The Kinks, Erland Cooper, The Spice Girls
Campaigns :: 19 October 2022 – Ed Sheeran, The Kinks, Erland Cooper, Spice Girls.
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Netflix is growing again, adding 2.4m subscribers in Q3
Netflix has been spooking the investor horses – well, certainly giving them long faces – with its decline in subscribers in recent times.
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MPA offers menopause, menstruation and miscarriage guidance
October is World Menopause Awareness Month, and in fact Tuesday 18th October was World Menopause Day.
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Hyph and Ableton launch new apps for music creation
There have been a flurry of new music-creation mobile apps in the last year or two, aimed at amateur musicians and pros alike.
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Music Venue Trust launches new fund for grassroots UK venues
The UK’s Music Venue Trust continues its work to help independent venues stay open amid continuing economic headwinds.
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Sacem taps the blockchain for Musicstart works-protection tool
French collecting society Sacem has launched a new service for songwriters called Musicstart.
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Slacker hit by court judgement over SoundExchange royalties
Earlier this year, SoundExchange sued streaming service Slacker alleging that it had “stopped paying statutory royalties” in 2017.
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Amazon Music adds another livestream: Kendrick Lamar
Just a day after announcing a new series of weekly livestreamed concerts, Amazon Music has announced another online set-piece.
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TikTok debuts StemDrop music format with UMG, Syco and Samsung
Amid all the speculation about TikTok Music, TikTok has been quietly working on… a new music format. It’s called StemDrop.
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Stability AI raises $10m as Stable Diffusion reaches 10m users
We’ve written a few times recently about Stability AI. It’s the company behind the text-to-image Stable Diffusion system, and also a backer of the Harmonai project that recently launched AI music tool Dance Diffusion.
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Discord adds YouTube integration and monthly $3 subscription
Popular chat platform Discord has announced some new features which will be relevant for artists building communities there, as well as for how music is experienced more widely on it.
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Decentraland unveils plans for second Metaverse Music Festival
web3 virtual world Decentraland has signed up more than 100 artists for its second Metaverse Music Festival, which will be happening on its platform from 10-13 November.
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Mixcloud gets into short-form audio with new ‘Tracks’ feature
From its launch in 2008, Mixcloud’s focus was on long-form audio: DJ sets, radio shows and podcasts, complete with a blanket-licensing model to ensure royalties were paid for the music used in that content.
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Amazon Music launches series of livestreamed music concerts
Amazon Music is going to be livestreaming weekly music concerts, but not through the sister service you might expect. ‘Amazon Music Live’ will air every Thursday not on Twitch, but on Amazon Prime Video.
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Report suggests podcasts could be TikTok’s next expansion
TikTok moving into audio is already the subject of frenetic speculation, with rumours that a TikTok Music streaming service (or just a geographic expansion of Resso with deeper TikTok integration) may be imminent.
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Music Taxonomy Researcher – AIMS API – Prague/Remote
Who we are: We are developing an AI-powered music similarity search and auto-tagging that music companies, TVs and filmmakers use to find the right music for picture much faster. We have become the leader in this new and growing music-tech segment. Our goal is to make the discovery of music faster and easier. To achieve that, we […]
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Branded worlds may bring risks as well as rewards for Roblox
New research from KidsNoBest, which surveys around one million children a year on their media and digital habits, reveals the risks.
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Report: Meta’s Horizon Worlds only has 200k active users
Internal documents from Meta suggest that the company was hoping for 500,000 monthly active users for Horizon Worlds by the end of 2022.
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Substack says it’s more than just a newsletters platform
Co-founder Hamish McKenzie pointed out that the platform also supports podcasts, videos and audio narrations.
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Stable Diffusion used to turn lyrics into AI-driven videos
Video Killed the Radio Star… Diffusion transcribes lyrics from YouTube videos and turns them into prompts for Stable Diffusion images.
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Warner Records debuts own web3 imprint Probably A Label
It’s a partnership with “former celebrity restaurateur turned web3 creator” Jeremy Fall, riffing off his existing Probably Nothing brand.
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Apple Music takes spatial audio to Mercedes-Benz cars
Spatial audio is currently one of the key selling points for Apple Music, and now it’s making its way into one of the most logical environments for this technology
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BTS Busan livestream attracted more than 49m viewers
Despite premature reports of the demise of K-Pop titans BTS, the group returned for a stadium concert in their homeland this weekend
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Girls I Rate seeks next generation of women hitmakers
Girls I Rate is campaigning for gender equality and female representation and recognition in the creative industries
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Impala still opposed to equitable remuneration for streaming
Impala recently held its latest board meeting, and has published some of the conclusions drawn and policies affirmed there.
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Latest TikTok advertising features include Focused View
TikTok has been pitching brands and agencies on the idea of amping up their spending in its app even more.
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SoundCloud rebrands creator tools with growth in mind
Spotify for Artists; Apple Music for Artists; Amazon Music for Artists… and now SoundCloud for Artists.
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Spotify puts Drake OVO Sound logo on FC Barcelona’s next match kit
Drake is one of the first artists to benefit from Spotify flexing the muscles of its sponsorship of Catalan football giant FC Barcelona.
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‘Economic reality’ puts paid to Animal Collective’s UK and EU tour
American band Animal collective announced yesterday that they have cancelled their upcoming tour of the UK and Europe.
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Assistant Arts Professor, Music Business – The Clive Davis Institute (NYU) – New York
The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts invites applications and nominations for a full-time Assistant Arts Professor position in Music Business to begin in Fall 2023. This is a full-time, multi-year, non-tenure track appointment. **************************************************************** We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed colleague on the forefront of the music industry’s cultural and technological developments who is […]
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Meta and Instagram’s ‘Creator Week’ returns in November
Every platform wants to teach creators how to make the most of its key features, and hopefully court them to give it priority.
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Epidemic Sound launches web series to profile its musicians
Production music firm Epidemic Sound has launched a new web video series profiling some of the musicians that it works with.
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Publishers receive setbacks in latest Wolfgang’s ruling
In 2018, a company called Wolfgang’s was ruled liable for copyright infringement after a lawsuit brought by music publishers.
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Google and Harmonai reveal their latest AI music models
The recent history of creative AIs and music has been a tale of fledgling startups and huge technology companies alike.
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Meta’s Horizon Worlds metaverse has some teething issues
Meta is hoping for big things from its Horizon Worlds metaverse, but it’s fair to say there are still some teething issues.
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TikTok adds more editing tools and a new ‘Photo Mode’
TikTok announced a range of new features focused on editing yesterday, including making it easier to edit video clips and sounds.
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StemsDAO raises $4m seed funding for its music-focused DAO
We’ve been following with interest some of the grassroots efforts to create decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) around music.
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Report claims 100k tracks are now added to DSPs every day
Forget that oft-quoted ’60k new tracks are added to music streaming services every day’ stat. Two major labels have upped the figure to 100k.
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Latin music now generates 6.6% of US recorded music revenues
Latin music’s growth continues to outstrip the overall market: revenues were up by 23% year-on-year, over double the overall market growth.
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Amazon Music and Music Ally launch Amazon Music for Artists Pro Series
Music Ally and Amazon Music have launched a free five-course educational video series called the Amazon Music for Artists Pro Series.
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Google joins Meta in the race to improve text-to-video tech
One of Meta’s Big Tech rivals, Google, is revealing its own efforts in the discipline with not one, but two research projects.
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Apple Music for Artists gets new profile and lyrics features
Apple has added more features, including a profile section where musicians can create a customised bio by answering a series of short questions.
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Naked Record Club launches with sustainable vinyl focus
Vinyl sales are booming, but it’s also good to see an uptick in the discussion and innovation around making the format more sustainable.
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Softside wants to help more artists sell fan-designed merch
It’s a relatively recent trend for artists and music companies to actively encourage fans creating their own merchandise – and build commercial models around it.
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