Spotify Has Opened Up Its Data Sluice to Everyone
One of the cool things about Spotify is how it collects all kinds of Big Data to determine who is listening to what, when and where. When I had a chance to talk
Read MoreOne of the cool things about Spotify is how it collects all kinds of Big Data to determine who is listening to what, when and where. When I had a chance to talk
Read MoreAmber Healy represented sister site Geeks&Beats at The Future of Music Conference in Washington DC last week. Here’s one of her reports on a panel involving music and big data. Data should not
Read MoreThere’s so much cool data that can be culled from analyzing the behaviors and preferences of people who use streaming services. Matt Daniels has done some digging into Spotify and has learned some
Read MoreNext Big Sound is a data company owned by Pandora. Its job is to look at how people are consuming music and how best to serve those new wants, wishes and demands. They
Read MoreOn this day 95 years ago, a Montreal station that went by the name XWA began broadcasting the first ever regular radio programming in North America and maybe the world. Killer Mike comes
Read MoreData is the new currency. The more that can be learned about and your habits, the more companies know what to do with the stuff that they want to sell. Microsoft is all
Read MoreOn this day in 1878, Thomas Edison received a patent (no, 200,521) for his new talking machine called “the phonograph.” Within a decade, the commercialization of recorded music had begun. Think about that
Read MoreMTV was struggling. The channel had signed on in August 1981 in the midst of a brutal recession, one that was killing the music industry. When MTV went to the record labels asking
Read MoreData is the new currency. If one can divine knowledge from the trillions of data points that are being generated each second, then that person can rule the universe. Or at least a
Read MoreThink that streaming music services and download stores is only about delivering music to consumers? Think again. Big data is changing the way the whole music industry goes about it’s star-making machinery ways.
Read MoreYouGuv–a site that has absolutely nothing to do with any government or government organization–offers a tool that (allegedly) mines Big Data to offer up a profile of an artist’s typical fan. For example,
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