May 17, 2016

YouTube Adopts A New Tool For Faster Royalty Payments

Digital Sales Report Flat File

One of the things that bugs artists, songwriters and labels about YouTube is that it’s pretty difficult to get precise information about views and payments. In many cases, views aren’t counted and in other cases payments take too long to arrive. YouTube is hoping to alleviate those problems by implementing a new tool based on the […]

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#accounting #DDEX #Digital Sales Report Flat File standard #YouTube

May 16, 2016

Universal Music Makes Nearly $4 Million A Day From Streaming

Universal Music

Who says that there’s no money in streaming? It seems that all of those micro-payments add up after all as Universal Music Group is making about $3.9 million per day just from streaming music, according to its parent Vivendi’s first quarter earnings statement. In fact, UMG’s streaming revenue was up almost 60% over the previous quarter, […]

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#music distribution #streaming income #streaming revenue #UMG #Universal Music Group #Vivendi

May 13, 2016

A Streaming Music Royalty Primer

Music 4.1 cover

Streaming music royalty rates are such a morass of different percentages and possibilities that few people on the planet totally understand everything, and the ones who do are attorneys working in that narrow end of the music business. Even label and publishing execs who have been in the business for 20 or more years can […]

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#book excerpt #Copyright Royalty Board #interactive streaming service #Music 4.1: A Survival Guide For Making Music In the Internet Age #noninteractive streaming service #streaming royalties

May 12, 2016

Spotify To Launch 12 Original Video Shows

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Spotify recently announced that it was getting into the original content business by launching 12 new shows, and guess what? They’ll all be on video. According to the company, the video shows will be “centered around three main themes – music performances, music profiles and music culture,” and the episodes will be up to fifteen minutes long. The foray […]

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#music shows #Spotify #streaming music #streaming video

May 11, 2016

Amazon Launches YouTube Rival With Amazon Video Direct

Amazon Video Direct

User generated videos must be a really big business because another huge online player just jumped into the arena with YouTube and Facebook. Yesterday Amazon announced the launch of its new video posting service, called Amazon Video Direct, in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and Japan. The launch partners include Conde Nast Entertainment, HowStuffWorks, Samuel Goldwyn […]

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#Amazon Video Direct #Facebook #music videos #streaming video #YouTube

May 9, 2016

Apple Music To Get A Facelift Soon

Apple Music Facelift

While Apple Music has garnered 16 million paid subscribers rather quickly since its launch last year, the service hasn’t been without criticism, especially about its ease of use. Despite being a huge company, Apple does listen to its customers though, and as a result, it’s been reported that Apple Music is about to receive a needed […]

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#Apple #Apple Music #iTunes #streaming music #Worldwide Developers Conference

May 6, 2016

Virtual Reality Concerts To Begin This Summer

VR concerts

I’m a big proponent of virtual reality, especially when the audio is done well, and many have predicted that the technology will eventually be a boon to concerts. We’re going to see soon enough as virtual reality concerts will actually begin to roll out this summer. NextVR, which has been a leader in VR broadcasting […]

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#Gear VR #iHeartRadio #LiveNation #NextVR #Oculus Home #Universal Music Group #virtual reality #virtual reality concerts

May 3, 2016

Radiohead Erases Its Online Presence

Radiohead erased online

Radiohead has always been groundbreaking when it comes to their online presence (the “pay what you want” campaign for In Rainbows being a prime example), but now it’s entered some new territory by slowly but effectively erasing its entire online presence. Yes, that’s right. It’s pretty hard to find any trace of Radiohead online right […]

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#Dawn Chorus LLP #erased online #Facebook #online presence #postcard #Radiohead #Thom Yorke

April 29, 2016

Your Cover Songs May Not Be Streamed

Mobile Cover Songs

Doing a great cover version of a hit song has been a successful tactic in helping to raise the visibility of an artist or band for some time, but that practice may soon come to an end thanks to new efforts by iTunes, Spotify and other streaming services. More and more, digital streaming services are […]

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#Billboard #cover song #iTunes #re-record #sound-alike #Spotify #streaming music

April 28, 2016

Apple Music Up To 13 Million Subscribers

It looks like all the naysayers were wrong. Apple reported on its recent earnings call that its Apple Music streaming service was now up to 13 million paid subscribers and still growing. Much of that growth has come recently in fact, as it was reported that 2 million subscribers signed up since February alone. The present growth looks to […]

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#Apple Music #paid subscribers #Spotify #streaming music #TIDAL

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