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Still More Year-End Canadian Music Stats for 2017

BuzzAngle makes it their business to track how we consume music in this country. This is a word-for-word look at

With Canadian year-end numbers still forthcoming, let’s bide our time by studying how Americans consumed music in 2017. BuzzAngle’s year-end

If you search for new music online, you’ve no doubt used Bandcamp, a great site for bands of all sort

I’m serious. STOP WITH THE CHRISTMAS MUSIC! It’s there some kind of law surrounding this sort of thing? It’s December

December 20, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2017, Uber

Use Uber? The company is offering to turn all your 2017 trips in a music video. Start by going here.

Every year, the Canadian press selects a person as its newsmaker of the year and to the surprise of no

If it seems that you heard a lot of Arkells on the radio in 2017, you’re not imagining things. According

The people at Nielsen Music Canada spend all their days monitoring how we consume music and teasing out facts and

Tunefind is a service that tracks music from television and movies. According to their data, this has been a banner

I have t say I was a little stunned to learn that bulk of the top YouTube earners in 2017

Gamifying the Movie Theatre Experience – Aaron Silverberg in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 031 May 9, 2021
People yearn for live experiences that they can share with others. Though fan and crowd-based events such as sports and concerts may be the source of most of our FOMO, movie theatres are even more appealing. Although the film may be the main attraction, movie theatre owners are constantly looking for new ways to maximize […]
Mark Silver
Revenue Architects… Beyond the : 30-second spot – Derek Myers, Christos Nikitopoulos, Kevin Worsley in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 030 May 4, 2021
Well behind the scenes in the media business lurks smart folks who really know their way around a spreadsheet. They’re the ones who have charted out and flighted all the commercials, billboards, features and other innovative forms of sponsor integration. We’re of course referring to… revenue management. If you’ve never heard of this career path, […]
Mark Silver
King of the Deal – Phil King in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 029 April 26, 2021
Sports fans today can watch more games and global competitions than we could have possibly imagined, even 20 years ago. For those of us that can remember, which generally means Boomers and Gen-X, there really weren’t many sports to watch until the advent of pay-TV in the mid-80s, which saw the dawn of specialty channels […]
Mark Silver