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🔵 Value creation versus value extraction
The core problem affecting the music industry is something we should be discussing more.
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🔵 R.I.PIAS
An epitaph for the indie stalwart as it becomes another piece in Universal's empire
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🔵 Burner accounts, AI slop and a fork in the road moment for music marketing
Is it time to stop and rethink how we're strategising marketing?

September 2024

🔵 What the music industry can learn from Nike's disastrous 2024
Another case study for brand building versus 'immediate returns' marketing
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🔵 Finally the indies make a move back towards their own ecosystem
Why the newly-formed Cargo Independent Distribution deal matters
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🔵 Indie labels put in more value to the music business than they take out - will that ever change?
Our first ever guest post, courtesy of Keith Jopling
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August 2024

🔵 Recognising the true value of indie labels
In an age of music conglomerates with a myriad of interests, let's take a mo to appreciate the classic, traditional indie record label
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🔵 Could we maybe support Bandcamp more?
This "X is the next Bandcamp" line is getting a little tiresome
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🔵 About that Universal Music share dive...
Is this why Believe are so keen to go back into private ownership?
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🔵The unfeasibly strange way things are pointed…
Spoiler: if left unchecked, it doesn’t look great for social media, AI, the music industry and yes, even free speech
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Darren Hemmings
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🔵Suno’s legal defence is woeful as the cracks start to show with GenAI
Investors getting cold feet, share prices tumbling… is the bubble about to burst?
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Darren Hemmings
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🔵From the vaults: This image illustrates perfectly how Spotify are getting it wrong
A post from 2016 about Spotify’s playlisting that still rings true today
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Darren Hemmings
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