Daily News & Analysis Feeds - 2020

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November 5, 2020 – WEBINAR — Protecting Your Content: The Changes You Need To Know About & The Tools To Help You Get It Done

Throw out that self-addressed, unopened envelope and get ready to toss out a few other things you thought you knew about copyright protection along with it. While it’s gotten easier to create, upload, and share content, protecting that content still seems unapproachable, complicated and expensive for most of the creative community. This session — hosted… Read More

November 4, 2020 – Music Biz Member Cosynd Updates Copyright Registration Offerings

Cosynd, the platform which allows users to quickly & seamlessly claim ownership and register their copyrights, has released a number of updates to bolster their registration offerings. One major improvement is the addition of a calculator that can determine the number of applications that a user will need to file with the U.S. Copyright Office… Read More

November 4, 2020 – MEMBER DISCOUNT — Making Vinyl 2020 Virtual Conference

Music Biz is proud to support Making Vinyl 2020, this year’s edition of the B2B conference dedicated to the rebirth of the global vinyl manufacturing business. This year, the event will bring together representatives of the world’s leading pressing plants, equipment suppliers, record labels, packagers, distributors, and retailers in a virtual forum to compare notes on… Read More

November 2, 2020 – NEW MEMBER PROFILE: Bonsai

Please welcome Bonsai, which offers a tech-based networking platform designed “to democratize access to social capital,” to the Music Biz member community! The company’s platform connects experts across top companies including Google, JPMorgan, and Sony Music with young professionals looking to break into their industry via one-on-one video meetings. Bonsai’s team is made up of… Read More

October 28, 2020 – Three Key Trends Shaping the Media Landscape This Year

As the coronavirus spread in H1 2020, we might have expected radical changes in the media behavior of consumers around the world. But for the most part, they didn’t happen. That’s just one insight to emerge from eMarketer’s newly released Global Media Intelligence Report for 2020, a detailed look at internet users’ engagement with digital… Read More

October 28, 2020 – WEBINAR — Actionable Insights: Turn Music Data into Effective Marketing

Songstats is a comprehensive music data analytics app for artists, labels and industry professionals, that provides actionable insights across the most important streaming services and download stores. Solutions like this are key in tracking new industry metrics for success — such as playlist adds, chart positions and social milestones — based on the latest forms… Read More

October 27, 2020 – Fandom 2.0: Reinventing And Re-Energizing The Fan Experience On The Live-Stream Stage

Tim McGraw’s recent live stream connected fans via a giant virtual hometown map. J Balvin will stage a Halloween show in the game Fortnite using extended reality technology. Melissa Etheridge is watching home movies with fans on Friday nights. No one asked for the enduring live music pause. But six months into our virtual reality,… Read More

October 25, 2020 – MusiCares Issues Health & Wellness Survey for Music Industry Professionals

MusiCares has issued a new survey to gauge the most pressing issues at hand for the music community, to understand new and emerging health and mental health issues and allow them to better serve the music industry. We highly encourage you to take the survey before it closes on Monday, November 9 — the only… Read More

October 22, 2020 – Music Biz Member 1001Tracklists to Celebrate Annual Top Producers List with Minecraft Livestream

1001Tracklists will debut this year’s edition of its annual data-driven ranking of the Top 101 Producers on Wednesday, October 28, and celebrate the launch of the list two days later in a unique Minecraft livestream event. Any Electronic music track released in the past two years can qualify for the list, with ranking determined by… Read More

October 21, 2020 – Pandemic Causes Media and Entertainment Digital Ad Spending to Decline Despite Uptick in Streaming and Gaming

The media and entertainment industries have traditionally made up a small fraction of the US digital ad market, and we expect their shares to remain flat or diminish through 2021. This partly has to do with traditional media conglomerates tightening their belts; their own ad revenues will continue to decline as ad dollars shift away… Read More