Facebook Eyeing Music Streaming? Slacker Radio; Podcasting; Zane Lowe
Facebook set to challenge YouTube and Spotify with ‘comprehensive music strategy’ — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
The prospect of Facebook taking on the likes of Spotify and YouTube in the world of music streaming is no longer a matter of ‘if’ — it’s a matter of ‘when’.
Slacker Radio CEO: ‘We are on the cusp of profitability’ — musically.com
Slacker Radio says it is on the verge of turning a protfit, with its CEO criticising the ‘unsustainable’ business models of Pandora and Spotify.
Beats 1 host Zane Lowe sees a future with multiple Apple-hosted live radio stations — appleinsider.com
A new interview with Beats 1 head Zane Lowe emphasizes Apple’s message about how streaming is the future, and that Apple is possibly looking to expand live Beats-branded streaming radio stations even further.
This Brazilian Streaming Music Player Is Challenging Spotify, Using Chatbots — www.forbes.com
Using chatbots with influencer marketing in music.
Pandora’s plan to end abandoned playlists, or: how I learned to stop indecision and love the Genome… — medium.com
If famed disc jockey John Peel were alive today, would he build playlists on streaming services? Probably, yeah. Would he ever need help building a playlist? Who knows? He was a music encyclopedia…
If Daniel Ek wants to frighten the major labels, he should step back in time — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
Is the music business really ready for Spotify Records?
How the Battle Over Control of the U.S. Copyright Office Could Affect the Music Industry — www.billboard.com
The struggle over who will be the next Register of Copyrights is about to begin with the expected introduction of a bill to make the position a presidential appointee.
Podcasting Has Growing Up to Do — bellocollective.com
I’m 26. I grew up listening to podcasts. They came delivered in the form of an iPod on the school bus to high school. Even back then, I remember how early podcast adopters would talk about the…
Streaming Music Services, From Most Screwed to Least Screwed — gizmodo.com
SoundCloud is fucked. On Thursday, the streaming music service mostly known as a place to hear podcasts and remixes from unknown DJs confirmed that it had taken $70 million in debt funding — basically a loan from various investors — in order to stay in business.
If Spotify were a CD store, it would be bigger than Greece — www.cnet.com
If the internet died and some of the biggest online services had to turn into brick-and-mortar stores, it would take an awful lot of bricks and mortar to make that happen.
Music Streaming Company Deezer Launches New Reggaeton Channel In U.S. — www.latintimes.com
Deezer has announced the launch of a dedicated reggaeton channel. From up-and-coming artists in the Latin genre to veterans like Daddy Yankee, this app has it all!
