Our Spring/Summer 2023 quarterly report takes a comprehensive look at the world’s music streaming platforms – and gives you an analytical snapshot of the market.  Last year we noted that DSPs were “strenuously seeking differentiation”, and in 2023, this is certainly the case: the last 12 months have seen innovation and change across most platforms. […]

Audius has added a toggle switch to artists’ settings page that enables them to opt in to allowing interactions with AI-generated tracks. The post Audius wants to help artists to opt in (or out) of AI music appeared first on Music Ally. Source: Music ally

The latest example of token-gating in action comes from decentralised streaming service Audius, with its new NFTs feature. The post Audius adds NFT-gating feature for songs, mixes and stems appeared first on Music Ally. Source: Music ally

Web3 music service Audius has hired a digital music veteran to be its chief business officer. Shamal Ranasinghe joins from SiriusXM/Pandora. The post Audius hires Pandora’s Shamal Ranasinghe as chief business officer appeared first on Music Ally. Source: Music ally

Decentralised streaming service Audius has a new way for artists to sign up and get verified on its platform: by using their TikTok profiles. The post Audius expands its TikTok integration with new signup feature appeared first on Music Ally. Source: Music ally

web3 streaming service Audius is making its payments features more accessible to mainstream music fans. The post Audius opens up its artist-tipping feature to credit cards appeared first on Music Ally. Source: Music ally

We’ve been following the progress of blockchain music streaming service Audius with interest: from early debates about whether its ‘censorship-resistant’ nature would be a copyright-takedowns nightmare, to its funding rounds in August and October this year. Now the company has given news site Coindesk a new figure on its scale: it’s attracting between 30,000 and 50,000 unique users a day. Note, the monthly […]

We first wrote about Audius in August 2018, when it raised $5.5m for what one report described as “SoundCloud on the blockchain”. It launched just over a year later, with a “censorship-resistant, community-controlled” audio streaming service where “anyone who joins Audius can effectively become an artist, just by uploading tracks”. Its decentralised model – music hosted on local […]

We first wrote about startup Audius when it raised a $5.5m funding round in August 2018 for a service that was described as ‘SoundCloud on the blockchain’. When it launched its public beta a year later, it was interesting, but its ‘censorship-resistant’ philosophy created some headaches in the potential for unauthorised uploads, and the difficulty […]

Music Ally reported on the launch of decentralised streaming service Audius in September, and wondered whether its “censorship-resistant” features (or as one report put it, ‘anti-takedown) might cause problems if people started uploading copyrighted music. A few weeks on, and other journalists are asking the same question. The Verge goes in strong, describing Audius as “a […]

Music Ally first wrote about blockchain-music startup Audius just over a year ago, when the company raised a $5.5m funding round (a traditional one, not an ICO) for a platform described as ‘SoundCloud on the blockchain’. The following month, it revealed that its advisers included Beatport CEO Robb McDaniels; former Avicii manager Ash Pournouri; Pandora head of artist product Shamal Ranasinghe; […]