April 18, 2016

Facebook Finally Launches Its Version Of Content ID

Facebook Rights Manager

Content creators have been complaining for months that many of their YouTube videos have been showing up on Facebook posted by someone else – an action called “freebooting.” In an effort to alleviate the situation, Facebook has now officially launched its version of YouTube’s Content ID called Rights Manager.  This is an admin tool for Facebook […]

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#Content ID #copyright owner #Facebook #freebooting #Rights Manager #YouTube

April 15, 2016

Keep Your Eye On These Next 3 Social Trends

3 Social Media Trends

Social media is the lifeblood of so many artists, bands, musicians and record labels in terms of engaging and growing their fanbases. That means it’s important to stay current on the latest developments so you don’t get left behind. With that in mind, there are 3 new trends in social media that are really heating […]

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#Buffer #Everlane #Facebook #Facebook at Work #Instagram #Kevan Lee #Pinterest #social media trends #thenextweb #Twitter

April 14, 2016

IFPI Releases New Global Music Industry Sales Figures

Global Music Sales

The IFPI (the organization that tracks global music sales) finally released its annual report on the sales for 2015. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, none of the figures surprise you. Here are the numbers right out of the report. Digital revenues now account for 45 per cent of total revenues, compared […]

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#annual report #global music sales #IFPI #streaming music

April 13, 2016

YouTube Has All The Leverage In New Label Negotiations

YouTube

If you’re a record label, or an artist, band or publisher for that matter, the one thorn in your digital side is YouTube. Why? It’s by far the most widely used streaming service for consuming music, yet it pays the least of all the services. However, it’s come to light that YouTube’s licensing agreements with the three […]

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#Digital Millennium Copyright Act #DMCA #streaming music #Warner Music #YouTube

April 11, 2016

Music Attorney John Kellogg On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast

Attorney John Kellogg

I’m really pleased to have music attorney John Kellogg on the podcast this week. John represented acts like Levert and the O’Jays before becoming assistant chair of the Music Business and Management at Berklee College of Music. John knows the music business from an artist’s perspective as well, since prior to becoming an attorney, he […]

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#Berklee. Cameo #Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast #bobbyoinnercircle.com #Inner Circle Podcast #John Kellogg #music attorney

April 7, 2016

9 New Rules For Success In Today’s Music business

9 rules for success

We’ve gone through a mighty change in the music business over the last 10 years, and it keeps on morphing and evolving every day. Since these changes are constant, many of the old school rules pertaining to success in the music business no longer apply. Here’s an excerpt from the latest edition of my Music […]

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#book excerpt #Music 4.1 #Music 4.1: A Survival Guide For Making Music In the Internet Age #success

April 4, 2016

YouTube To Introduce A Live Streaming App

YouTube Connect

Where once we lived in a world of pre-recorded video, that’s changing rapidly as millennials increasingly show how much they love live streaming. For instance, Periscope has posted more than 100 million broadcasts since its debut in March of 2015, and Snapchat Live Stories has as many as 100 million users per day, which has […]

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#Facebook Live #google #live streaming #short form video #Snapchat Live Stories #YouTube Connect

April 1, 2016

New Apple Technology Rids Songs Of Swear Words

Free Speech with conditions2

Here’s one for the 1st amendment. Apple has been granted a patent named “Management, Replacement and Removal of Explicit Lyrics during Audio Playback” for technology that can automatically scan a song being streamed and edit out any swear words in the lyrics. According to an article in Business Insider, the technology is different from automatic beeping […]

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#Apple #Apple patent #swear words

March 31, 2016

SoundCloud Launches Its Subscription Tier

Soundcloud Go

It’s been rumored for months, and it’s finally happened. SoundCloud has launched a subscription tier to its streaming service called SoundCloud Go and it’s priced at what’s now become the standard – $9.99 per month ($12.99 for iOS). The fact of the matter is that SoundCloud Go seems like it’s more to appease the major labels […]

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#DJ #Dubset #Mixcloud #paid tier #Soundcloud #SoundCloud Go

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