The battle for dominance heats up as Swedish music-streaming service Spotify is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire German rival SoundCloud. The move would give Spotify a larger library of content (SoundCloud has over 125 million songs), offer emerging artists an easier path to streaming...
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Streaming Tag
Streaming platforms yield a vast trove of data: valuable information to push your next marketing campaign in the right direction. Musically recently published a guest column around what you can expect to discover from playlist data, but it really was Adweek’s latest article on the...
Read MoreMinistry of Sound, one of the U.K.’s biggest independent labels, has been acquired by the British arm of Sony Music. Originally launched in 1993 as an extension of the influential London nightclub founded by James Palumbo, in the two decades since then Ministry Of Sound...
Read MoreStreaming service Pandora has this week announced a partnership with the largest supermarket retailer in Australia – Woolworths – to offer specially curated, exclusive Pandora stations as an in-store music experience for shoppers nationwide. The music will be refreshed and updated on a regular basis...
Read MoreWith the recent news of Microsoft acquiring Linkedin dominating the press, another deal has been inked also worthy of discussion: Twitter has invested $70M in music streaming service SoundCloud, notably two years after having walked away from a $1B purchase offer. How the strategic partnership...
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Data to Date: The Rapid Rise of Social and Streaming. [embed]https://www.nextbigsound.com/images/industryreport2015summer/soti__background.mp4[/embed]...
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