Photo Credit: Thomas Hawk / CC by 2.0 Twitter announces it will be winding down its legacy verification program and removing legacy verified checkmarks on April 1 in favor of its paywalled Twitter Blue. Twitter announced the end of its legacy verification program on April 1, when the company will remove legacy blue checkmarks — those that […]
Photo Credit: SiriusXM In December, reports suggested that SiriusXM was preparing to reduce the size of its team after suffering a third-quarter subscribership decline. Now, with paid promotional subscribers having also fallen during Q4, the Pandora parent has laid off 475 employees. SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI) CEO Jennifer Witz revealed the unfortunate news via a public […]
Photo Credit: Spotify Looking for a unique way to share your music tastes with a friend? Create a Spotify Blend playlist using your favorite songs. Curious what your friends are listening to? Want to share your music tastes with someone else? Spotify’s Blend feature automatically creates a curated playlist shared between people that updates daily. […]
Photo credit: Possessed Photography Artificial intelligence can now create music. Yes, the quality of AI music right now kind of sucks, but it will only get better over time and as people use it more. So what does this mean for the future of the music industry? What does it mean for your music career? […]
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Photo Credit: Midjourney / CC by 4.0 Are We Seeing 100,000 Music Tracks a Day Added to Digital Streaming Providers? Universal Music Group and Sony Music executives have recently claimed that around ‘100,000 tracks a day’ are being uploaded to digital streaming providers (DSPs) like Spotify. But is this really the case? Glenn Peoples from […]
Spotify is giving its users more control over their music recommendations with the introduction of a new feature that allows them to exclude certain playlists from their Taste Profile. This means that sleep playlists, kids’ nursery rhymes, and more won’t be influencing their actual music preferences. “We understand why you might not want kids’ music […]
Photo Credit: Aidan Bartos With music streaming prices going up, why isn’t Spotify raising prices? One analyst says it’s because Spotify is at a competitive weakness compared to its rivals. According to New Constructs CEO David Turner, keeping prices low is simply Spotify’s survival strategy against its rivals. “It speaks to the relative competitive weakness […]
Photo Credit: Sander Sammy Just days after a synthetic speech startup company released their new AI voice platform, the tool is already being abused to create deep fake celebrity audio clips. Speech artificial intelligence startup ElevenLabs launched a beta version a few days ago of its platform that enables users to create entirely new synthetic […]
Photo Credit: Kate Oseen Podcast creation has reached an all-time low since it exploded in 2020 during the pandemic. Is the luster of this audio format wearing off for creators? According to data compiled by Chartr, fewer podcasts were created in 2022 than the two years prior. The number of new shows created dropped 80% […]
