Why Spotify is launching its own font, Spotify Mix

Spotify Mix is a sans-serif typeface designed in partnership with Dinamo Typefaces, a Berlin-based type design studio that has worked with major companies, including Burberry, Discord, Nike, Patreon and Tumblr, among others.

Spotify describes the new font as a “combination of sharp angles and smooth curves,” which gives it a “distinctive character,” Spotify’s global head of brand design, Rasmus Wängelin, wrote in the blog post.

Music creation startup Endlesss is shutting down this month

Users have been advised to download the music they have made using those apps in the meantime.

European Music Managers Alliance teams with BeatBread on advances for members

The partnership will benefit more than 3,000 managers based across Europe. 

Using an algorithm that uses billions of data points to forecast an artist’s earnings potential, BeatBread provides a unique funding mechanism for creative talent, enabling them to retain full ownership of their rights.

How Music Catalogues Get a New Lease of Life with AudioShake

Media has been endlessly buzzing about generative AI since its proliferation in the music industry, and things like stem separation often remain behind the scenes, even though their value for the industry is a lot more tangible.

Spotify’s Car Thing will soon transform into Spotify’s Car Brick

Spotify’s Car Thing, a limited hardware “test” the company began shipping only three years ago, is about to bite the dust. The company wrote on Thursday that the device, which brought Spotify to automobiles without Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, will “no longer be operational” as of December 9.

Car Thing was aimed at drivers who want to listen to Spotify in their cars but don’t have modern systems with built-in streaming apps.

Web3 Music Association launches to make music industry a 'driving force' for advanced technologies

The Web3 Music Association (W3M) has launched as a new music industry trade body facilitating industry-wide research and development. A global organization, W3M brings together entities from the music, finance and technology sectors to collaborate, explore and harness advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and mixed reality. 

Company behind Mahogany Sessions YouTube channel launches DIY distribution service for artists

The new service launches with the announcement of an EP from rising artist Aine Deane.

OpenAI signs News Corp deal as Scarlett Johansson row rumbles

Music rightsholders want licensing deals with AI companies for training, but so do news publishers.

AI ‘will bring the biggest revolution the creative sector has seen,’ Björn Ulvaeus says in CISAC’s latest annual report

In its latest annual report, released on Wednesday (May 22), the global umbrella group of royalty collection organizations urged rightsholders to “act now” in the face of legal and regulatory uncertainty over the use of copyrighted materials in AI tools.

The Most Strategic Marketing You Can Do For Your Station Right Now? Promote Your App!

Stations that still don’t have their own app need to get with the program.  And for those that do, a concerted effort to market streaming apps should be implemented, including putting listeners on the air to walk them through the downloading process.

TikTok’s Symphony is a ‘creative AI suite’ for advertisers

TikTok held its annual ‘TikTok World’ gathering for brands and agencies this week, complete with some new tools for them to run campaigns in its app.

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