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Why Musicians Need to Pay Attention to Big Data

Amber Healy represented sister site Geeks&Beats at The Future of Music Conference in Washington DC last week. Here’s one of

There’s so much cool data that can be culled from analyzing the behaviors and preferences of people who use streaming

Next Big Sound is a data company owned by Pandora. Its job is to look at how people are consuming

On this day 95 years ago, a Montreal station that went by the name XWA began broadcasting the first ever

Data is the new currency. The more that can be learned about and your habits, the more companies know what

On this day in 1878, Thomas Edison received a patent (no, 200,521) for his new talking machine called “the phonograph.”

MTV was struggling. The channel had signed on in August 1981 in the midst of a brutal recession, one that

Data is the new currency. If one can divine knowledge from the trillions of data points that are being generated

Think that streaming music services and download stores is only about delivering music to consumers? Think again. Big data is

YouGuv–a site that has absolutely nothing to do with any government or government organization–offers a tool that (allegedly) mines Big

Do you subscribe to a streaming music service yet? If you do, you should know that every time you log

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