Sitemap - 2023 - Network Notes

🔵 Reflections on 2023 and predictions for 2024

🔵 2023 winds down but the AI stories just won't quit

🔵 How the music industry is diverging into two separate economies

🔵 Hipgnosis' £18M song sale raises questions

🔵 Spotify is learning hard lessons about podcasting

🔵 Spotify's layoffs: a sign of the times

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

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

🔵 Mental wellbeing is worst among early stage musicians

🔵 About that "indie coalition" remark...

🔵 OpenAI's Struggles Highlight Growing Concerns Over Rapid Development

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

🔵 Where is the indie coalition?

🔵 Chatting music and marketing with Sean Adams

🔵 Could music journalists and PR people be the future of music?

🔵 Artist subscriptions, and what the music industry could learn from Substack

🔵 New/Rising Artists: Spotify doesn't want you in your growth phase... and that's OK.

🔵 Do we have too many stakeholders in music now?

🔵 Why two-tier licensing may be a positive step for DIY artists.

🔵 Deezer unveils a much smarter approach to streaming fraud

🔵 This "Bandcamp is over/dying/dead" narrative needs to stop.

🔵 Hipgnosis investors rebel and vote against continuing. What happens now?

🔵 Spotify unveils its changes to streaming payouts... but is it enough?

🔵 The Hipgnosis saga continues and YouTube works on AI voice cloning

🔵 At Hipgnosis, the house always wins

🔵 Attempting a balanced look at Bandcamp's predicament

🔵 Artists, fans and the overuse of the word "superfan"

🔵 Revisiting the precarious state of UK music distribution

🔵 Bandcamp turmoil, Discogs unrest... is the grassroots indie scene under threat?

Coming soon