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Random music news for Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Hands up everyone who was freaked out by yesterday’s Google outage. Nothing like that today (yet), so we can move

Skull cakes? Kinda cool, actually. As for music news on Thursday, October 15… Coronavirus update 1: Remember that no social

Dogs. Is there anything they can’t do? What’s happening with music news for July 29, 2020? Coronavirus update 1: Chainsmoking

Who’s excited for the long weekend? Anyone? Oh, right. We’ve been on a long weekend for nine weeks. Here’s music

It’s a holiday Monday for us in Canada, but since this site has readers around the world, I feel obligated

Nielsen released their North American market update for this week and it shows some interesting things. In Canadian music sales

Let’s begin by reviewing the song “#Selfie” by Chainsmokers. Now let’s move to the New York Times Magazine to try

The Speaker Representation Business – Martin Perelmuter in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 018 January 18, 2021
It is a lot harder to become a paid speaker than you might imagine. While you may think that publishing a book is a surefire way to become sought after, there’s a lot more to it, actually! Sure, there are many authors, politicians and academics that companies pay big bucks to keynote events. There are […]
Mark Silver
Born into the Beautiful Game – James Easton in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 017 January 13, 2021
The Easton family has played a vital role in shaping the North American soccer landscape for almost 50 years. In the early 70’s, Jim Easton Sr. uprooted his family from Scotland to take the job as the inaugural head coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps. Over his time in the role, Jim and his family fell […]
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In Search of a Digital Media Business Model – Chris Skinner in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 016 December 26, 2020
Traditional media businesses have long struggled to realize the opportunity with digital. Giving away free ad-supported content has backfired with Facebook and Google now controlling the relationship with the audience and all their associated behavioural data and preferences. What has emerged, thanks to Netflix, is that people will pay for good content, which is really […]
Mark Silver