Tag: streaming

What is a "play"? The answer may surprise you.

Starting in February, Spotify Premium subscribers will pay $12.99 per month, a price increase to "keep delivering a great experience."

If there's anything in your heart that still harbors something like love for the music industry, stay far away when musicians talk shop about marketing.

Fraudsters pumping up their streams with fake traffic have been getting their royalties taken away.

In Spotify's bleak vision of the future, AI will replace DJs and whisper lovingly in your ear. It will also take requests.

A single AI music company claims it has created 14% of the world's recorded music and are flooding streaming platforms. Who, or what, is Boomy?

An influential legislator in the European Parliament calls streaming platforms "unbalanced" when it comes to paying artists.

Apple announced a 10% to 12% increase, effective immediately. Spotify is going up in 2023, CEO Daniel Ek said less than 24 hours later.

The music streaming platform is luring livestreaming artists back from Twitch and YouTube by leveraging fan donations.

Outer to Inner Atmosphere: The Escape Velocity Mix relaunches the streaming giant's One Mix Series.

Did you want better royalties? How about a remote control for your phone instead? Meet "Car Thing," Spotify's latest proof of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Vinyl jumps, CDs explode and your digital downloads are getting kinda bummed out. More revelations from the RIAA 2021 annual sales report for the record industry.

Spotify's Serfs: A new report breaks down the Black Box of Streaming and the brutal financial realities of the music industry's streamonomics.

Spotify's last money-grab from artist royalties alarmed government investigators. Now they're grabbing even more.

Following in the footsteps of the independent YouTube streamers putting up "beats to relax/study to," ambient artist Steve Roach has created a 24/7 ambient streaming channel.

SoundCloud is allegedly working on a new model similar to subscription sites like OnlyFans and Patreon, according to a Billboard report.

Revenues from music subscribers continue to fund podcast spending at the world's largest streaming service.

Monty Luke on BLM, Climate Change and Creating a Catalogue of Black Electronic Music, Brawther cover mix and more inside the latest issue of 5 Mag, out now.

Google Play Music paid artists more than its corporate sibling at YouTube. Maybe that's why it had to die.

How to monetize livestreams through SoundCloud's "fast track" partnership with Twitch.