Search
- Artists
- Emerging tech
- Marketing
- Streaming
- Strategy
- Web3
- Startups
- Business models
- Live music
- Fandom
- Community
- Data
- Rights holders
- Independent artists
- $STREAM
- Record labels
- Livestreaming
- Finance
- Legal
- Spotify
- Metaverse
- Audio
- Discord digests
- Social media
- Artificial intelligence
- Gaming
- Power
- Copyright
- Careers
- Entertainment
- Distribution
- Music curation
- Podcasts
- Payments
- Big tech
- Database updates
- Music discovery
- Venture Capital
- Major labels
- Music royalties
- Artist services
- Brand partnerships
- Creators
- Independent labels
- Contracts
- Newsletters
- International Trends
- Touring
- Design/UX
- Music licensing
- The Score
- Producers
- Performers
- Entrepreneurship
- Funding
- Starter Packs
- A&R
- Consolidation
- Fintech
- Amazon
- Currents
- Wavelengths
- VR/AR/MR
- Community Q&As
- Genre
- Film
- Competition
- TikTok
- Sidechain
- Apple Music
- Social audio
- Publishers
- Songwriters
- Live Nation
- Twitch
- Music recommendation
- Back catalog
- Big ideas
- Mobile
- Charts
- Memberships
- Agencies
- Lawsuits
- Metadata
- Playlists
- YouTube
- Hip-Hop
- Crowdfunding
- Pop
- Intellectual property
- Disney
- Discord
- PROs
- Promoters
- Scarcity
- Interoperability
- Artist managers
- Radio
- Diversity, inclusion and equity
- Warner Music Group
- Recaps
- Netflix
- Politics
- Y2K
- Amazon Music
- Ticketing
- TV
- Advertising
- Health/fitness
- Wall Street
- Smart speakers
- SoundCloud
- Gen Z
- Clubhouse
- History
- Telcos
- K-pop
- Vinyl
- Community barometer
- Summit
- Company analysis
- Engineers
- Venues
- Fair use
- Downtown Music Holdings
- M&A
- Tidal
- Music education
- Accelerators
- Afrobeats
- DAO updates
- ByteDance
- Latin America

Amber is an investor and founder (her community software startup Zyper was acquired by Discord) and author of the book The Rise of Virtual Communities.

For many observers, it can feel like Web3 is in the grips of an identity crisis.

We’ve been pondering when music will get its “Midjourney moment” — namely, when high-quality song creation will become as easy for the everyday user as clicking a button.

The way the gaming industry is approaching creator payments could be a critical reference as rights holders continue to push for reform in streaming payout models at large.

On May 6, 2023, Water & Music had the distinct pleasure of hosting our inaugural Wavelengths Summit, fulfilling a dream of bringing our passionate, unique URL community into IRL space.

Today’s music streaming platforms are increasingly trying to position their offerings as “artist-friendly.” But what does that phrase actually mean — and who’s doing it right?

How deepfake songs actually work, how we got here, and what kinds of battles to expect moving forward.

For many artists and their teams, it feels like the Web3 playbook — which had barely been written in the first place — has once again been ripped up.

Securing an endorsement deal is no longer a matter of “selling out”; for many artists, it’s a matter of survival.

Generative music AI models may be upending attribution as we know it in the music business.

Analyzing the fan journey in music and Web3 from project discovery to post-mint community engagement, based on interviews with 22 music NFT collectors and subject-matter experts.