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Are you a Canadian musician? This survey wants to hear from you about the age of COVID-19

Music Canada, the spokesgroup for the recorded music industry in this country, wants to get a handle on how musicians

To demonstrate solidarity with those protesting the brutal death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police last week,

The science is in, I guess. Live Nation, the largest promoter of musical events in the world, commissioned a study

The kid would come around like clockwork every Sunday at 2 pm during prime nap time. He set up a

Since we’re right in the middle of summer blockbuster season, it’s probably a good time for this question: What’s your

Have you ever found yourself down front at a gig and been sucked into swirling vortex of a mosh pit?

Sequencing an album is hard. You want to make sure that the first song ropes in the listener enough to

Over the weekend, we heard that Best Buy was going to phase out selling CDs in all remaining stores that

We’re told that podcasting is hot, a statement that’s backed up by all kinds of American statistics and studies. That’s

Spotify’s data boffins are always looking for ways to improve the music selections they serve up to subscribers. Algorithms are

We all hate those cheatin’ concert ticket buyer robots and scoop up everything the nanosecond they go for sale online.

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, […]
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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
Leading the pack in the Sports Betting Race – Jim Lawson in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 028 April 20, 2021
For several years, the legalization of single-event sports betting and the planned provincially controlled roll-out has been a hot topic. During that time, Woodbine Entertainment‘s astute executives have been watching and waiting while investing in the media and digital technologies that will be needed in a Canadian landscape where offshore behemoths are permitted to operate […]
Mark Silver