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✖️ Snapchat stories for music 👻 Mental health in the music biz ⚕️ Stream-to-own platforms ▶️

Bas Grasmayer
Mar 20, 2017
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Greetings from Berlin! 🇩🇪

Put some extra creativity into one of this week’s lead pieces. Check them out. Have a great week!

Love,

Bas

From me, for you

Music for the Snapchat generation: conceptualizing Music Stories

David Emery recently noted how impactful Snapchat’s Stories feature has been. I decided to take the thought experiment of Music Stories a step further.

www.musicxtechxfuture.com • Share

Is the music industry coming to terms with mental health?

A look at one of the most important issues at the heart of the music business.

blog.synchtank.com • Share

Digital music space

This new digital music store could change the way we pay artists

Meet Voltra. A stream-to-own music service which places emphasis on owning your music collection.

www.theverge.com • Share

16 months later, YouTube Music is still a missed opportunity

Google’s vast library of rare and live music could be a major selling point for the company’s streaming music service. Instead, it’s a barely-connected footnote.

www.computerworld.com • Share

Pandora CEO Westergren: 'We intend to be profitable this year'

Pandora Premium, the company’s first on-demand streaming tier, will help it beat competition from tech giants like and Amazon, said CEO Tim Westergren.

www.cnbc.com • Share

Beyond streaming

Are algorithms in tune with music?

What impact do algorithms have for music curation and creation? Short video documentary accompanied by an article.

nationofbillions.com • Share

Google Home is playing audio ads for Beauty and the Beast

You might hear an advertisement if you ask Google about the day ahead. As Stephen O'Reilly once pointed out: “It’s all about the battle for the living room, and music is the hook.”

Meanwhile Spotify will only let you listen to this song when it’s raining.

www.theverge.com • Share

How hip-hop would be different if Biggie were still alive

When the Notorious B.I.G. was murdered, the course of contemporary hip-hop was fundamentally altered. Surprisingly good piece!

uk.complex.com • Share

Wide view

The mobile internet is over. Baidu goes all in on AI

The Chinese company has more than 1,300 people working on tech like deep learning.

www.bloomberg.com • Share

We're watching more video, just not on TV

About half of all video viewing is now done on devices other than television. We’re going through a media shift.

www.axios.com • Share

“The Flippening” & how I learned to stop loving Bitcoin

Great long read explaining Bitcoin’s complications, as well as the very promising Ethereum blockchain ecosystem.

hackernoon.com • Share

Fun

СкандаУ - Replay

I’m really enjoying this track and video by Bulgarian hiphop group СкандаУ (SkandaU).

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