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🔵 Spotify is learning hard lessons about podcasting

It turns out this isn't an easy win after all

Dec 6

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🔵 Spotify's layoffs: a sign of the times

Profit comes by increasing revenue... or cutting overhead

Dec 5

🔵 The hidden genius of TikTok's new Artists feature for musicians

Handy for artists, but there's arguably a much smarter play going on here

Dec 1

🔵 The next phase for social media, and what that means for artists

How social media's evolution might benefit the broadcasters, but potentially save the introverts too

Nov 29

🔵 Mental wellbeing is worst among early stage musicians

And that's before all these remuneration changes pass more money up to bigger artists....

Nov 24

🔵 About that "indie coalition" remark...

Or, why we need a top level, international entity to protect commercial interests

Nov 22

🔵 OpenAI's Struggles Highlight Growing Concerns Over Rapid Development

... and what this all means in the context of the music industry

Nov 20

🔵 YouTube and Stability AI: a tale of two approaches to copyright

Is this also moving too fast for everyone now? I suspect it might be.

Nov 17

🔵 Where is the indie coalition?

Trade bodies abound, but action seems somewhat lacking as the majors buy up businesses

Nov 15

🔵 Chatting music and marketing with Sean Adams

All the day's news, plus a podcast deep dive into music and marketing

Nov 14

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