Daily News & Analysis Feeds - 2021
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March 3, 2021 – Music Biz Members DistroKid and Twitch Partner to Help Creators Become New Twitch Affiliates
DistroKid and Twitch have teamed up to create a streamlined path for qualifying creators in the DistroKid community to become Twitch Affiliates. This move will help artists establish a new income stream from streaming on Twitch, as Affiliates are able to earn money via channel subscriptions, ad placements and virtual “Bits” currency. In a blog post,… Read More
March 2, 2021 – SOCAN is Hiring! — Chief Membership Officer
Music Biz partner SOCAN is looking to hire a new Chief Membership Officer: Overall Responsibility: Lead the Member Services Department to champion and advocate for SOCAN members and clients ensuring pro-active service is provided through problem identification and resolution. Areas of the department include relationship management focused on recruitment, retention and repatriation also customer service… Read More
March 2, 2021 – Music Biz Member SoundCloud Preps Launch of User-Centric Royalty Payments Structure
SoundCloud today announced that starting April 1, 2021, it will begin implementing its own version of a user-centric royalty payment structure — dubbed “fan-powered royalties” — for its nearly 100,000 independent artists on the platform. User-centric payment systems distribute royalties to artists from a percentage of each music fan’s subscription fee, based on the artists… Read More
March 1, 2021 – RIAA Releases Year-End Music Industry Report for 2020
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has released its year-end recorded music revenues report for 2020, which showcases a 9.2% year-over-year growth to $12.2 billion estimated in retail value. Revenue from music streaming services grew 13.4% to $10.1 billion in 2020, with full-service paid music subscriptions encompassing $7 billion of that total (a year-over-year… Read More
March 1, 2021 – Music Biz Member EMPIRE Opens West Asia & North Africa Division
EMPIRE has announced the expansion of its independent label services, publishing and distribution businesses into a new territory: North Africa and West Asia. To lead operations in the region, the company has hired Suhel Nafar as its new VP of Strategy & Market Development. Nafar previously served as Global Lead of Arab Music & Culture… Read More
February 25, 2021 – Music APIs Are Exactly What the Industry Needs – Here’s Why
The following op-ed was penned for HypeBot by Adaptr CEO Jeff Yasuda, part of Music Biz member Feed Media Group. While the music industry demonstrated an impressive ability to bounce back thanks to its early adoption of streaming, keeping that momentum going will require a streamlining of the process through which tech companies get permission… Read More
February 25, 2021 – How the Pandemic has Accelerated Demand for Premium Audio Products
Over recent years, the audio market has witnessed a progressive shift to more premium products. Case in point with headphones and models such as the Apple AirPods Pro, along with the Sony WH-1000XM series, which have helped democratizing higher audio quality to the mass-market. This trend, which can be seen across most audio product categories,… Read More
February 24, 2021 – Music Biz Member Pex Secures $57 Million Investment Round
Music Biz member Pex announced this month that it has secured $57 million in investments, which it plans to use to scale up its Attribution Engine (AE) technology. Pex hails AE’s ability to analyze over 10,000 hours of content per minute to find all available audio & video copyright uses, attribute the copyrights to every… Read More
February 24, 2021 – Music Biz Member Vevo Launches Moods AI Tool for Emotion-Based Ad Targeting
This month, Vevo has launched Moods, an AI-based tool that identifies and groups Vevo music videos by the mood they convey (i.e., fun, heartfelt, impassioned, empowering, etc.) in order to create more favorable brand-interaction experiences for consumers as they watch Vevo content. The company worked with music data company Musixmatch to build a proprietary model… Read More
February 24, 2021 – Snapchat Surprises and Alternative Social Media Platforms Challenging the Giants
In a new podcast, eMarketer Principal Analyst at Insider Intelligence Debra Aho Williamson discusses Snapchat’s latest earnings, what stands out, and how this year will look. She then talks about which alternative social media platforms are most likely to rival the giants in the near future and why. Listen in to this episode by clicking… Read More
