#42: Startups inventing the future of music 🔮 | AI & big data in streaming 🔢 | Secondary ticketing 🎫 | PC Music 🎀
Howdy diddly doo,
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Had a great time in Ghent last weekend, where I got to see a bit of the local music scene before and after the Play & Produce conference.
Decided to follow-up on the panel and write a detailed piece on devising your own strategy as an artist.
Enjoy & have a great week!
Love,
Bas
From me, for you
Success in music: defining your personal strategy in four steps (MUSIC x TECH x FUTURE)
Finding your way to success can be confusing as an artist. Here’s what you should be focusing on.
What these 4 music startups reveal about the future of music (Projecting Trends, Synchtank)
A look at four new-generation startups gearing up to define a new status quo in the music business: Dot Blockchain, Audiokite, Stagelink, and Resonate.
Digital Music Space
Google Music taps big data to build a robot DJ mind-reader
Next time you open Play Music, all you’ll have to do is press play. Because Google knows what you want to hear. I suppose they finally put their Songza acquisition to good use.
Also remember what was said last week about devices like Google Home: this is about the battle for the living room and music is the hook.
Metallica just put their entire new album on YouTube for free
Saw this story from a lot of angles.. The most prevalent one that Napster is now (legally) hosting Metallica’s catalogue. Tim Ingham had the best take though.
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Live Music Space
Eventbrite CEO talks 2017 profitability and secondary ticketing
“Artists or their managers might have an idea of what price they can command, but why not test it? Why not test price elasticity and see what you can actually demand?”
Is the secondary ticketing market on brink of collapse?
Lots of government pressure on secondary ticketing in the UK.
From dusk ‘til dawn: arbitration, cultivating culture and the other stuff of night mayors
Cities benefit when the after-hours economy is properly catered to.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Neuroscience says listening to this song can reduce your anxiety up to 65%
The power of music.
Why Facebook’s love affair with Chatbots deserves your attention
Over a billion monthly active users on Messenger. Number of people with messaging apps installed on their devices expected to grow by 1 billion in coming years.
Comparing artists to start-ups isn’t just lazy. It’s unhealthy and beside the point.
Good points by Emily Gonneau. I’m guilty of this, because I find it a useful way of getting across messages on the business level, but never forget the music goes first.
The distribution of users’ computer skills: worse than you think
Keep this in mind next time you make your fans jump through hoops.
MIDiA’s 2016 predictions – here’s how we did
Mark Mulligan & co review the predictions they made for this year and whether those things came true or not.
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AI Experiments is a showcase for simple experiments that let anyone play with artificial intelligence and machine learning in hands-on ways, through pictures, drawings, language, music, and more. Fun!
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What I'm listening to
The new label sampler release by PC Music (Guardian review). It’s a kind of electronic hyperpop music for the internet generation. Listen ▶️
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