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YouTube Music has launched in Canada

After missed deadlines and a long wait, it’s finally here: YouTube Music has launched in Canada. Along with it has

YouTube was trying to keep something secret until a grand unveiling on Tuesday, but there was a leak. It has

Valentine’s Day: a made-up holiday designed to make dudes feel guilty and single people even more lonely. Who needs it?

On this day in 1945, a B-25 bomber crashed into the upper floors of the Empire State building. Fourteen people

The Hip tour is over. The Olympics are done. What am I going to do with my day? Well, I

Damn, thunderstorms are LOUD here in Singapore. Never heard thunder like this before. It was hard to concentrate on gathering

BandPage, which has sold itself as the best way for bands to engage with, and sell to, their fans, has

I’ve long given up trying to keep track of all the music services under the Google umbrella. YouTube. YouTube Music.

I should point out that I had nothing to do with the pivot towards sexbots on this week’s Geeks and

YouTube, the biggest online source of music by parsecs and parsecs, has been threatening to launch a premium ad-free tier

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
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