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Random music news for Monday, May 16, 2022

May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Podcasts, Rolling Stones, Spotify, Travis Scott, YouTube

If you buy these sneakers, you (a) have too much money and (b) are certifiably insane. Agreed? Moving to music

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Random music news for Monday, April 11, 2022

April 11, 2022April 11, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments YouTube

Here’s how Ricky Gervais would have told the joke that got Chris Rock a slap from Will Smith. Now some

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Random music news for Friday, April 1, 2022

April 1, 2022March 31, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Covid, David Bowie, Electric Guitar, Foo Fighters, Morrissey, Nick Cave, Pantera, Podcasts, Queen, Roger Taylor, Rolling Stones, Royal Blood, Taylor Hawkins, Ukraine, YouTube

Aliens are among us. Really. Be paranoid about that as you look through music news for April 1, 2022. No

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Interesting despite the war, Russians remain big, BIG fans of Ukrainian music

March 25, 2022March 29, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments InvasionWar, Russia, Spotify, Ukraine, YouTube

Viberate, a company based in London and Slovenia, spends all its time tracking the popularity of artists and songs on

WTF?

I…I don’t even know where to start with the Fart Drummer

March 25, 2022March 25, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 66Samus, Drums, Farts, YouTube

YouTuber 66Samus loves programming his electronic drumkit with various interesting sounds. For reasons that remain unexplained, his latest project involves

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YouTube and YouTube Music could end up being banned in Russia

March 24, 2022March 25, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Censorship, Disfinformation, Google, Invasion, Russia, Ukraine, YouTube, YouTube Music

With Putin’s Russia awash in fake news and propaganda about its war in Ukraine (which is going very, very badly;

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Random music news for Wednesday, February 2, 2022

February 2, 2022February 2, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Aerosmith, Apple, BTS, Covid, Kanye West, Machine Gun Kelly, Marilyn Manson, Neil Young, NFTs, Spotify, YouTube

Groundhog Day. The science is in. Trust the meteorologists, not the rodent. Unless the rodent promises an early spring. Here’s

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Random music news for Monday, January 17, 2022

January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments TikTok, YouTube

If you’re doing to be at all judgmental, do not click this link. Trust me. But by all means click

Tech

YouTube videos not working or embedding for you today? Join the club. UPDATED!

January 16, 2022January 17, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Broken Video Links, Embedding Videos, This Live Event, This Live Event Is No Longer Available, YouTube

Saturday evening (January 15), reports started popping up about YouTube videos disappearing from websites. What used to be a happily

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“Baby Shark” has now been seen more than 10 billion times on YouTube

January 14, 2022January 14, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Baby Shark, Pinkfong, YouTube

If you’ve got young children, chances are you’ve contributed to this new YouTube record. Since its release in 2016, the

Lists

YouTube Canada’s top videos, creators, and moments for 2021

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2021, Canada, Top Videos, YouTube

Now that we’re into December, here come all the year-end lists. YouTube Canada has published several such lists. Let’s go

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The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
Andrew Dick
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