Music streaming platforms currently dominate the global conversation on the future of music, with debates touching upon streaming ethics, application survival, and monetisation methods. The usual suspects included in the discourse include Spotify, Deezer, Rdio, and Pandora. But in terms of on-demand streaming, Spotify leads the English-language media discussion. While Spotify holds 4 million paid [...]
Dec 05, 2012 | Categories:News | Tags: business development, Deezer, digital music, digital music trends, music, music business, online, Platform, Spotify, streaming | Comments Off
Check out this article on the music industry’s use of big data and why you need to know about it. Find out more about alternative chart company The Sound Index here.
Apr 04, 2012 | Categories:Blog, Metadata, News | Tags: Big Data, Charts, Decibel, metadata, music, music industry, Music Tech, Social Network, The Cloud, The Sound Index | Comments Off
Instead of fighting the now outdated issue of piracy, music and media companies have reluctantly woken up to the world of streaming as a solution that can now be monetised. Perfect, I don’t mind watching some ads in order to get something for free, but I am tired of streaming poor quality movies and not [...]
Oct 07, 2011 | Categories:Blog, News | Tags: Deezer, free, metadata, music, piracy, Spotify, streaming | Leave A Comment »
This week I attended Music4point5 Brand Discovery, an event that I was especially looking forward to because I would get to meet people who wouldn’t just nod condescendingly when I spoke about the importance of metadata, but also because I’ve been working on a piece of writing about marriages of conveniences in the music industry. As it [...]
Sep 29, 2011 | Categories:Blog, News | Tags: artists, brand, Decibel, discovery, event, metadata, music, Music4point5 | Leave A Comment »
Some of us will remember buying records from our local record shop, or from the record department of Woolworths, WHSmiths or even, Boots. But these days it is getting increasingly difficult to find a shop on the high street that sells CDs. You can buy one at your local supermarket, but as your choice there [...]
Sep 20, 2011 | Categories:Blog, News | Tags: alice cooper, merch, metadata, music, record | Leave A Comment »
It seems that in this malleable digital era, rules determining content creation are being developed as quickly as others are dissolving; the defining of the boundaries of musical hierarchy, the levels and lines of communication and who defers to whom are in danger of becoming hard and fast laws in a land where the content [...]
Sep 16, 2011 | Categories:Blog, News | Tags: Decibel, digital, ISP, metadata, music | Leave A Comment »
The design team at EMI did some awesome data visualization work
Nov 07, 2010 | Categories:Case Studies, Featured Slider, Front Page | Tags: data, discovery, emi, lennon, music, paul pod | Comments Off
‘It’s sometimes easier to be wise for others than for yourself’ – that’s why I’m a mentor with Rockstar for digital start-up businesses. Here’s some ‘Wisdom for Others’ Panel of Mentors Event – September 2010 – Gregory Kris from Rockstar Group on Vimeo. Rockstar Key Tips – Gregory Kris from Rockstar Group on Vimeo. Greg
Oct 25, 2010 | Categories:Blog, News | Tags: Decibel, mentor, music | Comments Off
This article was written by Tech Writer Audrey Watters and appeared on the ReadWriteWeb Tech Blog yesterday The Ultimate Liner Notes: UK Startup Decibel Builds a Comprehensive, Relational Music Database The music industry has long been interested in big data, most notably for tracking sales to identify the “Top of the Charts” recording artists. But [...]
Jun 10, 2010 | Categories:Services for Data Users | Tags: audrey watters, digital music, metadata, music, readwriteweb, tech blog | Leave A Comment »
