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✖️ Postinternet music is the future 💻 AI music is already mainstream 🔥 Internet's post-text era is here 🤳 #99 Feb 12, 2018
✖️ Music & innovation in 2018 ⚡ Spotify's IPO for dummies 💸 YouTube's AI drives 70% of views 💭 #98 Jan 15, 2018
#97 Dec 11, 2017 ✖️ Apple drives artists to chatbots 🍏 YouTube leveling the playing field? 🙈 AI will change your music strategy 🚨 – Hi everyone! The news is out: IDAGIO raised €8 million. I'm stoked to be on board for this phase and
#96 Dec 4, 2017 ✖️ Female music startup founders 👩💻 Spotify + Tencent share swap? 🇨🇳 Buying cats on the blockchain 🐱 – Hi everybody!Slush Music and Slush were AMAZING. Here's my review.It's been great meeting so many of
#95 Nov 27, 2017 ✖️ Will tech make labels obsolete? 🙄 Building 250k plays on Soundcloud 💯 Why musicians get digital wrong 🙅 – Hi everybody!Off to Helsinki for Slush + Slush Music this week. Looking forward as I've already heard
#94 Nov 20, 2017 ✖️ Streaming wars for superfans ⚔️ How generative music works ⌨️ Blockchain startups to watch ⛓️ – Hi everybody! I am busy preparing my talk at Slush Music next week. It's probably going to be my most
#93 Nov 13, 2017 ✖️ EU streaming giants teaming up 💪 How AI startups can target music 🤖 Soundcloud's last chance... 💸 – Hi everybody,Just came back from Ableton Loop here in Berlin. The focus is completely on creators and
#92 Nov 6, 2017 ✖️ Spotify's Chris Brown problem 😠 Listening diversity is growing 📈 Critical look at blockchain & music ⛓️ – Hi everyone, Thanks for all the positive responses to last week's mailing. I'll try to squeeze in ano
#91 Oct 30, 2017 ✖️ Is this the end of the app era? 📵 YouTube entrepreneurs & music 👀 Martin Luther & the Church of Tech 🛐 – Hi everybody,Something special for you this week. Unfortunately I was unable to do my presentation at
#90 Oct 23, 2017 ✖️ Post Malone's streaming game 👾 Music marketing toolbox for pros 🛠️ Personal story about diversity 🦄 – Hi everybody,As announced recently, I'm experimenting with formats for this newsletter. This week I'm
#89 Oct 16, 2017 ✖️ Spotify & the Roman slave trade 🏛️ Oculus Go: a VR game-changer? 🚀 Does music still work as social glue 👯 – Hi everyone, Sometimes I get bored with the music I'm currently into and the filter bubble I've built
#88 Oct 9, 2017 ✖️ Algorithm designed concert hall 😍 Blockchain takes on ticket fraud ⚔️ Standing out in the age of VUIs 👂 – Hi everyone, Been having a busy time with IDAGIO recently, as we've just launched our rebranding, sim
#87 Oct 2, 2017 ✖️ How streaming is changing pop 👨🏽🎤 Stream mythbusting with Warner 👊 Troubled blockchain ticketing pilot 💥 – Hi everyone, Been spending much of the weekend at home building IKEA furniture (moved to Berlin 5 mon
#86 Sep 25, 2017 ✖️ Electronic music 100 years ago ⚡ Scientists store light as sound 〰️ Moving beyond the record industry 💿 – Hi everyone, Sometimes I compose this newsletter over the weekend, sometimes I get up at 5.30 on Mond
#85 Sep 18, 2017 ✖️ My Instagram & Twitter hack 🤳 Spotify is finally cracking video 🎞️ Radio no good for today's hits? 📻 – Hi everyone, 🇦🇹 Just got back from a lovely team trip to Vienna with my IDAGIO colleagues. We had a w
#84 Sep 11, 2017 ✖️ Why music startups often fail 💥 Better streaming services for DJS 🎛️ Music promo is going meme-first 🔑 – Hi everyone, Some unexpected travel this week, so I didn't have much time to write. However, sometime
#83 Sep 4, 2017 ✖️ The next 3 interfaces for music 📻 Hiphop, coding, and algoraves 💻 Funding by VCs overtaken by ICOs 💸 – Hey! I'm looking for frontend and Android developers to join my team at IDAGIO in Berlin (we're reinv
#82 Aug 28, 2017 ✖️ How TIDAL's predecessor failed 😵 Biohacking & the future of music 🔮 Alexa goes beyond Amazon Echo 📻 – Hi everyone, I've had a lovely time in Trondheim last week, speaking about key trends in music tech,
#81 Aug 21, 2017 ✖️ The Instagram Stories rulebook 📸 The trojan horse for domestic AI 🤖 Sonic warfare & music's dark side 🔫 – Hey everyone! Had an amazing few days in Cologne at the c/o pop convention, where I got to meet so ma
