Sitemap - 2024 - The Industry Playlist 🎡

Spotify's accruing cultural debt

Tipni Time: three charts, three lessons

30% Creator Tax; DSP-Label grand bargain; and Wynk Music shutdown

A&R: Tuning India's Independent Talent

Megastar residencies and Assistive-AI Creativity

Spotify’s Playlists Play, AI’s Costs, and Copyright Wars: A Perfect Storm for Creativity

Deconstructing All About Music 2024

The Ministry of Bland Futures

Spotify's Triumph and the Zero-Sum Reality for Music Business

Major labels still rule; AI's music's youthful edge; and why Spain's live music is surging

Evolution of music search; Spotify copying TikTok; and Undifferentiated digital distribution

Tailwinds of Music Marketing: Navigating Techification and the Obsolescence of Like-Share-Subscribe CTAs

Big Tech vs. Big Labels clash; Platform 'enshittification'; and the Upside of arena tour slowdowns

The downside of catalog sales; Innovating live music business, and managing hype indicators

Chat with a Spotify's Human-in-the-AI lab scientist; and the Cultural Moment of nostalgia meets avatar concerts

Changing face of nostalgia; Regulating excesses of streaming; and why virality is a bad strategy

Streaming evolution; Redefining genres; Microculture memberships; and Web3's music comeback

Monopolistic power of algorithms; and the Multiple paths to building a bank for creators

Cost of being a music fan; and the US cultural hegemony on the decline

Predicting the next hit; and the Rise of the anonymous star

Fans craving social experiences; music X environmental activism; and search getting multi-dimensional

Optimizing for analog behaviors in a streaming world