Last week I shut off Spotify and spent time exploring its competitors. After all, if Spotify could close its offices for a week, why couldn’t I close what is usually my go-to streaming app? As a person who writes and advises others about music marketing, it’s important to try to keep up with what all […]
Photo Credit: Wasserman Providence Equity Partners makes a strategic investment in Wasserman, buying out Redbird Capital and Madrone Capital. Global sports, music, and culture agency Wasserman has announced a strategic investment from Providence Equity Partners, a private equity firm specializing in growth-related investments in media, communications, education, and technology. The investment will provide capital to […]
Photo Credit: YouTube YouTube is bringing its YouTube Shorts format to TV with a new look designed to improve how the vertical videos look on widescreens. Neal Mohan, YouTube’s Chief Product Officer, says the company has put a lot of work into redesigning how the format appears on TV. “Our research told us that there […]
Photo Credit: Solen Feyissa FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has reiterated his view that TikTok should be banned in comments to Bloomberg. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner Brendan Carr spoke with the outlet to explain why he believes the social media app should not be allowed to operate in the United States. “I don’t believe […]
Photo Credit: Hello I’m Nik YouTube pushes ‘Go Live Together’ to select creators on the heels of TikTok and Twitch’s co-streaming functionality. YouTube is preparing to roll out a new co-streaming feature allowing select creators to invite a guest to go live with them. At launch, creators will only be able to co-stream via phone, as the […]
Twitter will start rolling out an $8/month subscription cost for its verification badge, amongst different options. The adjustments to the enterprise mannequin come after a takeover by Elon Musk of the social media platform. Particulars for the brand new ‘Twitter Blue’ subscription hit the App Retailer over the weekend. “Beginning immediately, we’re including nice new […]
Photo credit: Henry Be As of June 2022, there are over 2.4 million podcasts and nearly 400 million podcast listeners in the world. So for a podcast to rise to the top of its niche, it has to be very good. With that in mind, below are five of the best podcasts for musicians. The […]
Photo Credit: James Owen Meta has announced an AI-powered audio compression method that supposedly delivers ten times better compression than the MP3 format. The audio compression method is called ‘EnCodec,’ which Meta debuted on October 25 in a paper titled by ‘High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression,’ authored by several Meta researchers. Meta gave a brief […]
Photo Credit: Evgeniy Konev Whether buying your first acoustic guitar or your tenth, the decision is always unique to the sound you want. Have questions? Check out this acoustic guitar buyer’s guide with some recommendations from Sweetwater’s vast inventory. The following was created in collaboration with Sweetwater, a company DMN is proud to be partnered […]
Photo Credit: NRK P3 / CC by 2.0 From Snoop Dogg to Eminem, we take a look at the musicians who have spent the most money acquiring NFTs, according to a new study. A recent study from CoinGecko utilized transaction data from OpenSea, SuperRare, and Etherscan to find the most expensive NFTs purchased by celebrities since the […]
