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SoundCloud’s user-centric streaming plans seem to be paying off

Earlier this year, SoundCloud teamed up with Portishead to test a new royalty distribution system that it said had the

Watching the Olympics? I miss Brian Williams keeping me up to date on the time in Newfoundland. (If you don’t

We spend a lot of time online. A website building company called Zyro did some snooping to find out exactly

Complaints about paltry payouts from streaming services are as old as streaming itself. Thousands of artists are wondering if there’s

Well, if this would save my life in an emergency, okay. Let’s do it. Meanwhile, there’s some music news for

Will Smith in politics? Could happen, Murcia. And now, music news for March 4, 2021. While the UK wants to

It’s to the point where I want to stand on the border and yell into the US “GET IT TOGETHER,

No, it’s not your imagination. You may have seen robins earlier than usual. Let’s move to music news for April

[A guest post by Laura Stephen. -AC] The SoundCloud Creator Forum is coming to Toronto February 19th to 21st. This

Good news, Virginia! It’ll soon become legal for unmarried heterosexual people to have sex! Yes, you read that correctly. And

The bad news: Flight delayed because of late-arriving aircraft. The bad news: We’ll miss our connection in Istanbul. The good

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