✖️ Creatives as victims, Sónar+D, MxTxF on Patreon, consumer data in music, streaming overtakes sales 👀
Hi everybody!
Two sets of announcements this week.
✈️ Sónar+D: I’m moderating a panel about blockchain & music in Barcelona next June. The event also has an interesting innovation challenge and startup garden which may be relevant to some of you. For a $50 discount, email promotions@sonar.es mentioning this newsletter before April 10.*
💖 Patreon: I’ve been playing around with the idea of setting up a page where you can support the newsletter by pledging small fees. In writing today’s lead article, I pushed myself over the edge. Become a patron of MxTxF (or just go vote on the poll).
Have a great week!
Love,
Bas
From me, for you
Creatives as victims: are artists really screwed?
Thoughts about the platformization of the internet and providing an alternative perspective to a widely shared piece about being a creative in the digital age.
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The music industry’s quest for consumer data
A look at some of the most popular data types through the years and how that data is being used.
Digital music space
Streaming overtakes downloads and physical sales for first time ever
Streaming revenue overtook music downloads and physical sales for the first time in 2016.
Watch what happens when Spotify gives unknown music acts a big push
The playlist effect.
Spotify UX analysis and redesign
I love these types of articles, because they show that the interfaces we take for granted are the result of very deliberate design choices (some of which are inherited from pirate services).
Beyond the stream
Short-circuited: are music festival lineups really all the same?
Cherie Hu crunches the data.
Is Lo-Fi House the first genre of the algorithm age?
How YouTube’s related video algorithm helped shaped the strange rise of hazy acts like DJ Boring, DJ Seinfeld, and Ross From Friends.
ToneDen, best-known for their download gates which are immensely popular on Soundcloud, has launched a tool to help you find your customers on social media.
Wide view
Adobe figured out a way to copy realistic photo styles from one picture to another
Adobe and Cornell University researchers have come up with an amazing imaging technology that lets you transfer photo styles from one picture to another. Imagine this for music.
Facebook will launch group chatbots at F8
Facebook will reveal at its F8 conference a new class of group bots that work inside Messenger group chats.
The Times' subscription sales jump 200 percent since pivoting from breaking news
British newspaper The Times has seen subscriptions sales jump 200 percent in the last year, since it pivoted from publishing on a breaking-news cycle to a digital editions-based publishing strategy a year ago.
Fun
A band I’m assisting, called Knarsetand, released a new video inviting you into their dark, twisted, and paranoid world. If you’re in The Netherlands, make sure to see them live this year. If you’re not, then just wait a year :-)
Knarsetand - Bad Trip (Official Video) - YouTube
On other platforms: click. Back with a new raw sound, new band, energy like never before and one message: Welcome to the Mad House.
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