Category: Big ideas

Contracts
Where is the Spotify of the ticketing industry?
January 11 2021

Artists
More major artists are starting their own labels. Don’t expect them to be any more equitable
December 29 2020

Artists
2020 in music and podcasts: How platforms shape programming
December 16 2020

Agencies
When agents and promoters take the label’s job (and vice versa)
December 11 2020

Competition
Signing bonuses used to run the ticketing business. What happens now?
November 30 2020

Artists
K-pop, cell phone ads and the future of music-tech branding
November 29 2020

Amazon
Three patterns in big-tech companies’ music strategies
October 27 2020

Artists
Digital music’s new drop culture
October 11 2020

Consolidation
Major labels, audiences and the consolidation of incentives
October 06 2020

Artist services
What “Record Deal Simulator” is really telling us
October 01 2020

Artists
Artist-facing music business software is far behind Silicon Valley
August 19 2020

Artists
Superfan experiences reinvented — and repriced — for a digital world
July 21 2020