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Look out, Spotify: Amazon is busy building a live audio business

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

Why is wearing a mask such a big deal to so many people? Let’s move to music news for December

Regular readers will know that I routine whinge and kvetch about how too many people are missing out on the

If you’re looking for anything text-based, Google’s the place to go. Need an image? No problem. Video? You can probably find

After months of building, my new home office is almost 100% functional. One of the last things I have to

July 21, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Audio

TechCrunch spent a little time musing on the nature of audio in our lives today. Audio, the spoken word, is

Looking for some real audio weirdness? Start with these creepy dolls once marketed by Thomas Edison. There’s more at Open

If you’re looking to kill some time at work today, explore this article from the BBC which seeks to explains

When I was a kid, I used to go around to all the stereo shops in Winnipeg pretending to shop

How did a town of 9,400 people in Pennsylvania Dutch country become one of the most important centres in the concert

Twitter Music sounded like a great idea, but then the whole thing crashed, burned and was killed. Now, as Twitter

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