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47% of Canadian Zoom users are BIG FAT LIARS!

With so many of us working from home, the workday often consists of seemingly endless meetings on Zoom, Google Meetings,

As we’ve seen time and time again (most recently from the just-released Facebook Papers), Mark Zuckerberg and his company are

Great. The robots are now coming for my job. One of the downsides of streaming is that there’s little to

One of the things artists, promoters, and ticket sellers want to do is irrevocably tie a concert ticket to the

Back in the day, music and audio magazines used to carry ads in their classified sections for gizmos that promised

[This was this week’s column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] On the third night of the Coachella Festival in 2012, the

Spotify began strictly as a streaming music service but from the beginning, the company has had a mission to become

Back on the weekend, I published a column on GlobalMusic.ca about what music consumption technology might come after streaming., I

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Imagine what it must have been like at the turn of

There are a zillion ways to get music recommendations online with algorithm after algorithm promising to help us discover new

Researchers at the University of Waterloo wondered if it was possible to create an artificial intelligence program that could take

Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
Mark Silver