Platform & Stream A daily digest of music streaming news 169 issues Subscribe to my list This thingy has to be empti pwieshh
#169 May 26, 2017 Does Digital Music Sound Better Than Analog?; How Much Data Do Music Streaming Apps Use?
#168 May 25, 2017 Big Machine TV Connects with PublicVine for Streaming Platform; How Data is Transforming the Music Industry
#167 May 24, 2017 Every Spotify Session Should Be a 'Private Session'; Blockchain and Music Data’s Byzantine Problem
#166 May 23, 2017 Saving Hype Machine; Here's How Much Data Spotify Uses; PayPal Hits Pandora Over Logo Issue
#165 May 22, 2017 Spotify Rolls Out “Ad Studio” Beta for Indie Artists & Labels; Will the Music Industry Embrace Voice-Controlled Technology?
#163 May 18, 2017 It's Demo Day for Techstars Music Start-Ups; Apple Music Shifts Away From Album Exclusives
#161 May 16, 2017 Spotify, Blockchain and the Future; Sound Royalties' $100m Bet on Unlocking Artist Income; LiveXLive Acquires Wantickets
#159 May 12, 2017 Music’s Quantitative Methods; iTunes Headed to Windows Store; Study Defends YouTube's Value To Music Biz; 20 Music Startups at Midem
#158 May 11, 2017 The New eMusic; Pandora is Running Out of Options; Spotify Partners with Capital One; Drag City Announces First-Ever Streaming Releases
#157 May 10, 2017 Why the Entertainment Industry Needs Blockchain; Inside The Ongoing Quest To Get Music Curators Paid
#156 May 9, 2017 Spotify, Deezer Back Call to Regulate App Store Owners; Kobalt's Big Funding; Pandora Nabs $150 Million Investment
#155 May 8, 2017 Warner, YouTube Renew Licensing Deal; Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Not OK with Streaming; Spotify Expands in London
#154 May 5, 2017 How The Music Industry Is Putting Itself Out Of Business; New 'Purple Rain' Concert Film, Documentary Pitched to Streaming Services
#153 May 4, 2017 Analog vs. Digital; Too Many Music Blockchains? OMI Chief Says 'No‘; 'The Last Songwriter' Looks at Downside of Streaming
#152 May 3, 2017 How The Music Streaming Boom Is Growing; New App qWaqq; SiriusXM Launching Beatles Channel
#151 May 2, 2017 How Streaming Music Has Changed Music Banking; How to Use Spotify Like a Pro; VKontakte Debuts Music Streaming
#149 April 28, 2017 Can Country Music Save Pandora? TuneCore Launches Premium App; Musical.ly Connects with Apple Music
#147 April 26, 2017 How One Artist Beat the Independent Blues with Blockchain; Music Business: Biggest Growth in 20 Years
#146 April 25, 2017 Cost of Entry to Streaming Market is Stifling Innovation; Spotify Developing Music Hardware; Apple Music Delays its 'Carpool Karaoke' Show
#145 April 24, 2017 Why Can We Still Buy Music?; Neil Young's New Streaming Service; iHeartMedia; Pandora Premium
#144 April 21, 2017 Kendrick Lamar, Streaming Juggernaut; Spotify, Merlin Ink Global License Agreement; Zane Lowe, Beats 1 Turning Apple Music Into Netflix
#143 April 20, 2017 Deezer Explores User Centric Licensing; Access Music > Own It; Streaming Profitability in Asia
#142 April 19, 2017 'Spotify for Artists' Gets Upgraded; Online Music's Coming MySpace Moment; Pandora On-Demand
#141 April 18, 2017 Streaming vs. Physical; Winning in the Streaming Era; How Spotify is Wooing Brands
#139 April 14, 2017 Gene Simmons, Not Down with Streaming; Bittunes; Blockchain; NetEase; TuneCore; Deezer's New App
#138 April 13, 2017 When Artists Don't Stream; Spotify + Apple Watch; Streaming to Overtake Physical Music Sales in the UK
#137 April 12, 2017 It’s Time to End the Stigma Over Streaming Music; Why Collection Societies Want to Make Music Together
#128 March 30, 2017 Bob Seger & (Not) Streaming; Spotify Debuts ‘Traffic Jams’; The Music Industry’s Quest for Consumer Data
#125 March 27, 2017 Facebook Eyeing Music Streaming? Slacker Radio; Podcasting; Zane Lowe – Good morning! Welcome back to another week of music streaming news.
#124 March 24, 2017 Algorithms & Music Curation; Daniel Ek's ‘Brilliant Minds’ Event; Tool Might Stream
#122 March 22, 2017 Spotify's Audio Data Power; Rare Zappa Set to Stream; Warner's Streaming-Only Label; DART Aims at Music's Data Crisis
#121 March 21, 2017 Stationhead App; Spotify; Voltra & Music Ownership; Streaming Services + Classical Music
#118 March 16, 2017 Music Biz + Podcasts; YouTube Music Could Be Awesome - But!; How Snapchat Will Change The Music Industry
#116 March 14, 2017 Pandora; Digital Music Wars at SXSW; Ty Segall, No Lover of Streaming; Spotify Podcasts
#115 March 13, 2017 Music Tech; Can Blockchain Keep Songwriters From Getting Stiffed?; Disney Embraces Spotify
#114 March 10, 2017 Apple, Spotify Back to SXSW; The Cheapskate’s Guide to Music Streaming; Ed Sheeran!
#112 March 8, 2017 Is Music Streaming a Lousy Business?; Spotify Gets Audio Detection Startup; INgrooves + Data
#111 March 7, 2017 Wolfgang’s Vault in Legal Battle Over Streaming Rights; Music Audience Exchange; The Future of Audio
#106 February 28, 2017 SoundCloud Undercuts Spotify; Why Indie Artists Can't Afford to Skip Streaming
#104 February 24, 2017 Bitcoin and the Music Industry; Collecting Songs In the Digital Era – Good morning! 13 stories to wrap up the week. Have a nice weekend!
#103 February 23, 2017 How 10 Years Of The iPhone Has Changed Music Listening; Techstars Music Reveals Start-Ups
#100 February 20, 2017 Country Music May be Pandora’s Secret Weapon; Can Blockchain Make Music Great Again? – This is the 100th edition of the daily digest. A big thanks to everyone who has signed up. To start t
#99 February 17, 2017 Spoon Launch “Aura Reader” With Spotify; 5 Countries With Big Streaming Gains in 2016 – Good morning! We wrap up the week with 13 great stories from around the world of music streaming. The
#98 February 16, 2017 Streaming Exclusives are Over; Who Can Buy Spotify? – Good morning. We're closing in on our 100th edition of the daily digest, which is very exciting. Grea
#97 February 15, 2017 Next Big Opportunity For Music Streaming Services; Qantas + Spotify – Good morning! We’ve hit mid-week with a solid collection of links from around the world of music stre
#95 February 13, 2017 Chance the Rapper’s Grammys = Big Win for Streaming Music – The Grammys. They were fine. Some good, some bad... whatever that Metallica/Lady Gaga thing was. Adel
#94 February 10, 2017 Daniel Ek is a Powerful Person; Prince Streams Again – Another solid dose of music streaming news to wrap up a great week. Lots of Spotify today, plus some
#89 February 3, 2017 The Napster Comeback; Facebook + Spotify? – Good morning and happy Friday. This is by far our biggest issue - 19 stories from around the music st
#88 February 2, 2017 The Spotify IPO; The Long Game for Playlists – Good morning: Another day loaded with lots of interesting news about the music streaming business. We
#72 January 4, 2017 In Apple-Spotify World, SoundCloud Can’t Find Room; Music Business Set to Embrace Moneyball
#70 December 30, 2016 Buy Sirius XM Stock, Or Wait for Spotify?; How Streaming Music Redefined an Industry – A last spin around the business of music streaming before we say goodbye to 2016.
#67 December 23, 2016 Apple Music: Platform? Promoter? Both. – One last spin around the business of music streaming before Christmas.
#62 December 16, 2016 Independent Radio and the Challenges of Streaming Music – Wrapping up the week with a heavy dose of music streaming news. Have a nice weekend!
#60 December 14, 2016 Sans Spotify, Who Can Afford SoundCloud?; For Music, Instagram is the New Facebook
#59 December 13, 2016 Deezer Partners with Manchester United; Instagram is Gig-Goers' Favourite Social App
#56 December 8, 2016 Grammy Nominations Include Streaming-Only Music For First Time; How To Open A Record Store In The Era Of Music Streaming
#55 December 7, 2016 Streaming Won’t Kill the Radio Star; Apple, Spotify are Generating $7 Billion a Year in Streaming Music Revenue
#50 November 21, 2016 Live-Streamed George Strait Show Reaches 14m; Douban.com is King of Music Streaming in China
#48 November 16, 2016 Is Blockchain Causing a Music Revolution?; Tech Firms Want Trump to Tackle Their Digital Music Gripes
#47 November 15, 2016 WPP, Spotify Forge Global Partnership; In China, One Music Website Is Always No. 1
#46 November 11, 2016 Songkick Announces Shazam Partnership; Spotify Swims Up'stream' In CD-Obsessed Japan
#43 November 1, 2016 What if Spotify Turned Daily Mix Into a Standalone Product?; Apple Music Price Drop 'Under Serious Consideration,' Sources Say
#41 October 26, 2016 Philadelphia Orchestra Debuts Streaming Service; Spotify: Free Service Is for Users Who Can’t Afford to Pay
#40 October 25, 2016 Universal Music Group Kicks Off VR App for Live Concerts; Stashimi Music Streaming App Targets Avid Fans
#39 October 24, 2016 The Future of Music Streaming Lies in China’s Small Cities; VRTIFY Creates A New Space For Music Sharing
#38 October 20, 2016 Imogen Heap Sees Blockchain as the Music Industry's Savior; Inside Vevo's Plan To Beat YouTube
#36 October 17, 2016 Accelerating the Future of Music; Bob Dylan's Spotify Streams Up 500% After Nobel Win
#32 October 10, 2016 How Blockchain Can Change the Music Industry; 8tracks Shifting To Subscription Model
#30 October 6, 2016 Once Enemies of Record Labels, Spotify and Apple are Now Spinning Profits for Them
#26 September 30, 2016 iHeart Aiming For Casual Music Fans (Let the Music Nerds Have Spotify!) – 17 big links to wrap up a most interesting week of music streaming news. Have a nice weekend!
#20 September 22, 2016 Deezer Debuts Family Streaming Plan | SupaPass: The “Fair Trade” Music Streaming Startup?
#18 September 20, 2016 Tinder + Spotify | iHeartMedia | Music Industry Finally Making $$ on Streaming
#16 September 16, 2016 Have Spotify and Apple Music Just Won The Streaming Wars? – We wrap up the week with a BIG collection of interesting news from around the music streaming busines
#12 September 12, 2016 Twitter and Music Discovery; Indie Musicians Should Focus On Podcasts, Playlists
#11 September 9, 2016 Has Apple Lost Track of the Future of Music? – Wrapping up the week with a heavy duty list of music streaming news. Have a nice weekend!
#9 September 7, 2016 What to Expect from Apple Music; Spotify May Restrict Free Streaming in New Deal
#8 September 6, 2016 Do Streaming Services Now Compete with Labels? | Berklee’s Open Music Initiative
#6 September 2, 2016 Lyor Cohen Does Not Believe in Exclusives | Orfium's Music Streaming Mission – Have a nice and safe holiday weekend!
#4 August 31, 2016 Questions: Can Spotify Live on $10 a Month?; Just How Well Is Streaming Really Doing? – Today's edition features not one Frank Ocean headline! Whew!
#1 August 26, 2016 The Summer That Streaming Took Over | Apple Music Fest: No Stream for Non-Subscribers
