Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
Think back …
Way way way back to the early days of web2.0.
Feeds were the new thing and social graphs were open.
Products like Spotify, Yelp and Zynga all leveraged this open social layer to grow massive user bases and billion dollar valuations.... See more
Jesstwitter.comWe all know about Netflix, we all know about Spotify and other media categories, and we also know what it has done to some industries... The music industry has lost, in the digital transformation, approximately 50 percent of its overall revenue pool.
— Markus Dohle, CEO, Penguin Publishing House
Elle Griffin • No One Buys Books
Yep - nothing like living through it ;-p
Here’s a stunning stat: more than 39,000 accounts on TikTok now have at least 1M followers. This creates “niche fame” where within a specific following, a creator may be a rockstar, but more broadly, that same creator may be completely unknown.
Clicks & Clout: How We Seek Status In the Digital Age
music2work2 marketing and Foundation Architecting
music’s just good for you :-)
New billboard in LA’s Valley - kinda feels like “USA 2025”
the idea of empathy itself only dates to the late eighteenth century. The notion was invented by psycho-physiologist Wilhelm Wundt to describe our ability to experience another’s experience, and different, Wundt thought, from sympathy and compassion. Empathy is about the transmission of information; sympathy and compassion are reactions to that
... See moreSteven Kotler • Last Tango in Cyberspace: A Novel
My generic career advice for young people is that if at all possible, you should aim to work on something that no one has a word for. Spend your energies where we don’t have a name for what you are doing, where it takes a while to explain to your mother what it is you do. When you are ahead of language, that means you are in a spot where it is
... See moreNoah Smith • Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist
