For Music and AI, All Roads Lead to Licensing

The music business is built on an intellectual property foundation, much like many technology and gaming companies. However, the biggest difference between music and these other industries is that music can easily be integrated into third-party websites and apps and experiences, and that music brings a crowd and helps foster platform adoption.

Spotify tunes up its ad tech as it looks to attract even more ad dollars

By building its own exchange, Spotify aims to capture more revenue from small and medium-sized businesses to allow existing clients to spend more efficiently, making it more competitive with platforms like Meta and Google, with The Trade Desk operating as its beta demand-side platform partner.

Feed.fm Wins 2024 Inc. Magazine Power Partner Award

The Inc. Power Partner Award recognizes companies that receive top marks from clients for their critical role in helping their startups thrive.

TikTok is the new YouTube: Find your music with Pex to claim Sound IDs

The creation of YouTube’s Content ID allowed many music rightsholders to find and manually claim uses of their catalog on the platform. These claims enabled additional revenue for rightsholders while ensuring content creators could still upload popular music, and YouTube could flourish as a platform.

How big can music merch get? MIDiA’s latest report charts the course to $16B by 2030

In the last decade, the merchandise market has evolved far beyond the typical fare of cheap t-shirts and hats. Pop-up experiences and bespoke items have become normal parts of superstar album rollouts — last year, Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” merchandise made the news as often as the concerts did.

How DistroKid Is Making It Easier Than Ever for Artists to Get Their Music on Spotify

Emerging musicians can instantly get songs across platforms for as little as $2.

Global music collections grew by 7.6% in 2023 says Cisac

Global collecting societies body Cisac has published its annual ‘Global Collections Report’ aggregating data from its 227 member societies.

Unleashing the Power of Instagram Analytics for Musicians

These data insights will help refine your strategy and connect with more fans.

Are You A Radio “Lifer?”

Radio has never been known as a stable career, but these days, job security is an oxymoron. And it’s just radio. Employees across the spectrum are less likely to work for the same companies before moving on to the next opportunity. What does all this mean to the overall forecast for radio as in industry? Fewer say they’ll spend the rest of their careers in radio, another factor that makes the business even shakier.

Is mixing and mastering a dying art?

A new study from AI mastering platform RoEx shines a light on the biggest challenges for DIY music producers.

Beyond TikTok and YouTube: The Key to Long-Term Music Success

You may get you quick views and even go viral, but you must go beyond TikTok and YouTube to distribute and market your music across all platforms to achieve long-term.

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