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Random music news for Friday, December 18, 2020

One week until Christmas. Feeling it yet? Maybe some music news for December 18, 2020, will help. Imagine a Spotify

A little social engineering can go a long way. From The Hollywood Reporter: “A 27-year-old Austin, Texas, man allegedly stole

The US Government is putting together another Notorious Markets report, which names companies, websites, apps, and nations that it believes

It looked for a while that streaming was on its way to obliterating the desire to pirate music. Why would

June already. It would be nice if spring finally arrived in some parts of Canada. On to music news for

It’s never been easier or cheaper to get legal access to almost kind of media you want. Yet people continue

It’s a chilling sort of email. Someone from somewhere insists that you’ve violated copyright in some way (music, movies, other

One day, we’ll turn on the news and not hear anything about Donald Trump. One day… Meanwhile, here’s music news

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca – AC] Back in the old days of overpriced CDs and peer-to-peer file-sharing,

Snow tires. Gotta start about thinking of putting them on. We also need to think of music news for October

It was on this day in October 1970 when Pierre Trudeau enacted the War Measures Act. It was a scary

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