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Quick Hits: Amazon Prime Music exec interview; Bandcamp’s new payment policy;...
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Behind the scenes with Amazon’s digital music exec: Billboard interviewed Steve Boom, vice president of digital music for Amazon, about the...
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Quick Hits: A Spotify In Residence interview; Merlin CEO op-ed on tiered...
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Insights into Spotify In Residence: Music Ally spoke with Rob Fitzpatrick, part of Spotify’s original content team, about the platform’s new...
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Quick hits: Podcasts and sponsorship; workgroup to support electronic music;...
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: What does major sponsorship mean for podcasts? Podcasting is still riding a wave of popularity among listeners, and where there is an audience,...
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Quick Hits: Radio Disney Country; messaging vs streaming; CD players in cars
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: First listen to Radio Disney Country: Billboard profiled the new Radio Disney Country station. The channel officially launched yesterday alongside...
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Quick Hits: Jason Aldean back on Spotify; Portland joins VuHaus; a Mixcloud...
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Jason Aldean back on Spotify: At the same time as Taylor Swift made her big exit from Spotify in 2014, country performer Jason Aldean also pulled...
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Quick Hits: Alibaba buys video network; Bandier reassures Sony songwriters;...
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Alibaba buys China’s YouTube: Chinese conglomerate Alibaba Holding Group has purchased Youku Tudou, China’s equivalent of YouTube, in a deal...
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Quick Hits: Dash Radio thriving; hi-res supporters mobilize; where is vinyl...
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Dash Radio still growing and thriving: Before Beats 1 ever hit the scene, Dash Radio was leading the charge for excellence in online radio....
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Quick Hits: Orchestras join Google’s Classical Live; research into teens’...
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: More orchestras join Google’s Classical Live: Google Play Music launched a program specifically aimed at classical music listeners back in June....
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Quick Hits: Podcasting vs blogging; parental leave at Spotify; Iovine’s icky...
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: How modern podcasting is like the glory days of blogging: Back in 2004, blogging was a wide open frontier, a time when anybody could write about...
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Quick Hits: YouTube funding fair use cases; the FCC and FM chips; Dash...
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: YouTube aiding in some fair use cases: YouTubers have faced many different types of legal activity over the years, and one of the latest serious...
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Quick Hits: Rdio vs Spotify; Sound of 2016; Nepal’s community radio; PRS review
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: PRS subject to anti-competition review: The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is reviewing PRS for Music due to internal changes at the...
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Quick Hits: Vevo’s new acquisition; Zane Lowe chats radio; podcasts as...
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Vevo acquires Showyou: Vevo has been working hard to stay relevant as YouTube, one of the main channels for viewers to experience its content, has...
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Quick Hits: Christmas covers, Spotify shows; podcasting, classic rock radio,...
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: The most-covered Christmas songs: Five Thirty Eight, the website led by statistics mastermind Nate Silver, published an analysis of the...
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Quick Hits: BitTorrent artist survey; Cumulus CEO address; high-res at Apple;...
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: BitTorrent 2015 artist survey: Popular download site BitTorrent released a report with the results of its artist survey. The report asked creators...
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Quick Hits: SoundExchange’s unclaimed royalties; streaming and inequality;...
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: SoundExchange’s 2014 unclaimed royalties drop: Billboard’s Glenn Peoples investigated SoundExchange’s 2014 numbers and uncovered that the company...
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Quick Hits: Podcasting predictions; podcast music careers; app store...
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Podcasting predictions for 2016: We can safely say that 2015 was a banner year for podcasting. So what does 2016 have in store? The International...
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Quick Hits: The 2016 crystal ball edition
Before quaffing the champagne tonight, we’ve got a slightly different take on the usual Quick Hits. Today, we have a roundup of online publications and writers’ predictions and premonitions about what...
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Quick Hits: Video of the radio; Google DMCA takedowns; an Uptown Funk-y 2015
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Video of radio? A Milwaukee Low Power FM radio station is video taping everything that happens in the booth and makes it available as a live...
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Quick Hits: The CES 2016 mid-week edition
Brief news items and worthy reads about the latest happenings from CES 2016. Sony debuts a turntable: During Sony’s CES presentation, the company announced several musical updates. But the most unusual...
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Quick Hits: Round two from CES 2016
Brief news items and worthy reads, another round of articles stemming from CES. Connected cars vs radio: The International Business Times ran an article about the presence of connected cars at CES...
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