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Back in May, Ted Gioia wrote about the wave of corporations and celebrities joining Substack. Longtime internet readers will note the clear echo of 2000s blog triumphalism and/or 2010s Twitter energy, which is to say: enjoy it while it lasts.
I think it’s a notable that Ted’s post, though it’s titled Substack Has Changed in the Last 30 Days, ... See more
I think it’s a notable that Ted’s post, though it’s titled Substack Has Changed in the Last 30 Days, ... See more
Robin Sloan • Platform reality
As an example, Spotify doesn’t make decisions based on what is best for the livelihood and basic needs of musicians. It makes decisions based on which is best for their investors. This is demonstrated when Spotify, in their publicly available investor relations reporting, labels artist payouts as “cost of revenue”.
Mutual Interest Media • The future of tech will be an old model: The co-op - Mutual Interest Media
"When we look at what happened with streaming, the artists who adopted early and understood how to leverage the streaming platforms in terms of cadence of release, number of releases a year, and how to market those releases through social, sped past artists who were coming from the iTunes download world.We saw a totally streaming native star come o... See more
Music Business Worldwide • Troy Carter’s Venice Music is launching an NFT-gated members’ club
Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi started Substack in 2017, but their history dates back years before. Chris co-founded the anonymous posting app Kik during his third year at the University of Waterloo (2010). He spent the better part of eight years at the company where he met his soon-to-be co-founders. When Chris left Kik in early 201
... See moreAli Abouelatta • ✍️ Substack
What Netflix and Spotify both did was dress up this obviously better consumer experience with an interface and a proposition that was (1) legal and (2) worth paying for in big chunks. And we all did.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
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At a time when cultural homogenisation is on the rise, where generative AI is increasingly putting innovative creativity in competition with mass derivation, we risk a future where music diversity is also being actively commercially suppressed. The introduction of thresholds, especially where they de-monetise repertoire , but also where they apply ... See more
Dan Fowler • Combating the Emergence of a Two-Tier Music Streaming Market: Analysis and recommendations to support a future industry of innovation, inclusivity, and sustainable growth
Yet, the final component of the streaming ecosystem — artists and their teams — are still pretty much where they were in 2010 regarding algorithmic optimization. Today, most algorithmic strategies follow a kind of "throw spaghetti at a wall and see what sticks" approach: make sure that the metadata you provide to DSPs is as complete and accurate as... See more
Music Tomorrow • Towards Recommender System Optimization: Our Data Tool for Algorithmic Optimization on Spotify [Part 1]
Udio Partners With Audible Magic to Fingerprint AI-Generated Tracks and to Check for Infringements
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