This week on the show an interview with Ed Averdieck CEO and Co-founder of CueSongs. CueSongs is a start-up that aims to make it easier to license commercial music for video (be it a documentary, a movie, a commercial or a school project).
On the show I also talk about the Music4.5 event on Mobile Music that I attended in London last Thursday (www.music4point5.com), some great speakers with subjects spanning from mobile gaming to making music on mobile devices.
This week on the show an interview with Taishi Fukuyama from All Access Today Japan. We talk about the evolution of the digital music landscape in Japan, AATJ's work with US and European start-ups and how they can help artists enter the Japanese market.
This week on the show an interview with Jay Frank, author of Futurehit.dna. Jay is back on the show two years after his first interview on DMT to talk about his new book Hack Your Hit and about his new record label Digsin.
We talk about how musicians can improve their odds of being noticed online, the elements that can play a part in creating a hit, real world presence versus social media presence, how to avoid being overwhelmed by the abundance of digital services, the value of free and much more!
Have a great week and 'till next time. And BTW if you're going to be at SXSW 2012 give me a shout! Here's a link to the panel I'll be moderating on the 15th "The Evolution Of Music Discovery In The Cloud" http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MP10980
This week on the show an interview with Rahul Powar, founder of Apsmart the company behind the app MPme.
MPme is an application created from the ground up for the iPad and it provides a curated online radio experience. The app actually monitors thousands of commercial radio stations and can serve up recommendations in real tim on stations that are playing tracks that are in line with your music tastes. MPme was recently named best startup in the Music Discovery, Recommendation and Creation category at Midem.
Check it out on the app store or visit www.mpme.com for more information!
This week on the show an interview with David Nam, strategic consultant at Herd.fm, a mobile app that allows you to share and discover music on the go.
This week on the show an interview with the CEO of PlayMySong Rami Korhonen with an update on what they've been up to in the past year. Playmysong is a great social Jukebox controlled right from your mobile device - coming soon to a venue close to you!
Also an interview with Lutz Villalba the CEO of newly launched start-up Navegas that is creating an interesting in-browser integration of different audio sources.
This week the show is all about Last.fm and features an interview with Matthew Hawn, the company’s VP of product. We talk about the evolution of Last.fm, its API policy, how the Spotify app development came about, their partnership with Microsoft on their new Discover platform at last.fm/discover and also about location-based charts and plenty of other stuff.
This week on the show an interview with Olivier de Simone, head of music at start-up Webdoc. The company lets you create, share and discover rich interactive posts in a very short space of time, and they have a particular focus on music in this initial phase. In the interview we talk about how the idea of Webdoc developed, the challenges in creating a service of this type, their focus on design and practical applications for musicians.
This week on the show an interview with Justin Kalifowitz, co-founder of the start-up Songtrust. The company offers a digital rights management solution that allows songwriters to manage their publishing online. Amongst the services offered by Songtrust is the payment of royalties from international collection societies and the company also offers different membership tiers according to the songwriter's requirements as well as an account aimed at bands.
This week on the show an interview with Martin Roth, CTO of Rjdj a company that specializes in reactive music.
I had featured the company on DMT back in Episode 43 but so much has happened since then! After the tremendous success of their Inception project Rjdj is about to unveil a new app called Dimensions so we learn all about it a month before release. The app promieses the best reactive music experience ever!
Check out the app's website at http://dimensions.rjdj.me where the company will post teasers and news in the run-up to the release in early December. Make sure you have a look at the intro video as well as that will give you a good sense of what to expect from Dimensions.
This week on the show an interview with Shamal Ranasinghe, co-founder of Topspin, the direct-to-fan marketing and retail software platform. We talk about the company's evolution in the past couple of years, new features, integrations and much more!
This week on the show an interview with Ashley Eldson, creator of the Palmsound blog which has been going strong for five years and is all about about music-making apps and hardware.
In this episode I tap into Ashley’s incredible knowledge base about making music on the iPhone and iPad in particular. We talk about the latest developments in this field including implementation of “core audio”, the entrance of large music creation companies like Native Instruments, Yamaha and Korg into the market, stand-alone software synths versus sequencers, the Alesis I/O Dock for the iPad & the release of new hardware products for iOS devices in general. We also discuss the status of Android in this field and we finish by talking about what the future may bring for making music on the move - taking into account the inevitable hardware advances that will be taking place in the next couple of years.
It’s been a horrendously long time since the last show and I must apologize for the gap. Hoping to get things back on track in this episode an interview with David Courtier-Dutton, the CEO of SoundOut (http://www.soundout.com) a super-interesting company that provides labels, musicians and radio stations with an insight into how a track might perform commercially. SoundOut was recently nominated in the Best Innovation or Gadget category at the BT Digital Music Awards 2011.
SoundOut has created a community of Scouts that built up via word of mouth - they are encouraged to evaluate each track based on how well they think it will do commercially rather than on whether they personally like it or not. The Scouts are paid a small fee (2 to 20 cents depending on how good they are) for each review they post and the review themselves are evaluated by the company’s semantic technology to check on how good they are.
Based on these reviews SoundOut is able to generate reports at different levels of complexity - starting at just $30 for the Standard report which contains 80 reviews delivered within 5 days all the way to $149 for the Pro report which contains a whole host of additional information as well as 200 review, demographic analysis, possibility to isolate UK or US reviewers etc. If you’d like to download a sample report check out http://www.soundout.com/Gallery/126.pdf.
It seems like a very interesting way to go about looking at the commercial viability of a track and with large radio stations and labels regularly commissioning SoundOut reports it looks like they’ve tapped into the right market, let me know what you think!
Well that’s all for this week, I really hope you enjoyed the show. Please remember to visit www.digitalmusictrends.com for previous shows or you can follow me on twitter, the handle is digimusictrends. Have a great week and ‘till next time!
This week on the show an interview with Mark Kelly, the CEO of the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) & also well known as the keyboard player in the band Marillion.
In the interview we talk about the FAC and its main objectives, the challenges that are facing featured artists in navigating the digital domain both in terms of managing new revenue streams and managing their own presence online as a brand, pan-european licensing and the shift in mindset from rights-holders as the perceived value of music slips.
This week's show is not all about digital music technology but I think it's important to take a step back every now and again and look at where artists are going to fit in this huge puzzle of digital music services.
This week on the show an interview with Oscar Celma who is CTO at BMAT, a Barcelona-based music technology company. BMAT has developed three products: Ella = Music Recommendation service, Skore = Automatic Performance Rating and Vericast= Media Broadcast Monitoring using audio fingerprinting. In the interview we talk about the evolution of the company since it started in 2006 as a commercial spin-off of the Music Technology Group. You can check out the company's services at www.bmat.com.
This week on the show a special from Future Music Camp - held at the Popakademie in Mannheim at the end of May. The event was a great way to get to know some of the most interesting start-ups working in digital music in Germany and it was also interesting to see quite a few labels, both major and independent, taking part to see what is bubbling under the surface! The episode includes interviews with Steffen Holly from Aupeo, Frederik van den Berg from Vodafone, Andrea Goetzke and Eric Eitel from All2Gethernow (www.a-2-n.de), Songpier’s CEO Matthias Glatschke and Ryan Rauscher, one of the organizers of the camp. Hope you enjoy the show!
This week on the show an interview with Stephen Phillips, co-founder of We Are Hunted and founder of Wotnews. We cover the evolution of the company in the past two years, their partnerships, the apps they developed, the licensing situation and much more.
We Are Hunted is one of the world's most popular indie music websites and they have created a fantastic platform to give exposure to music that strays out of the mainstream. Make sure you visit Wearehunted.com and follow them on Twitter. Also check out the Pocket Hipster and the Hunter apps for iPad, they're really cool.
Hello everyone and welcome to Digital Music Trends. This week on the show an interview with Cliff Fluet, partner at the law firm Lewis Silkin. In the interview we discuss music in the cloud, locker services, anti piracy legislation, the licensing situation for start-ups and the most exciting developments in the digital music business. You can follow Cliff on Twitter (@Fflic) and I also recommend that you check out this video of a presentation he did on the roadmap for branded content shot at MIPTV : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r1qAf3-Ddc.
As usual you can visit www.digitalmusictrends.com for more information on the show and you can email digitalmusictrends@gmail.com to send feedback. You can also follow me on twitter, the handle is @digimusictrends.
Hello everyone and welcome to Digital Music Trends. This week on the show an interview with Cliff Fluet, partner at the law firm Lewis Silkin. In the interview we discuss music in the cloud, locker services, anti piracy legislation, the licensing situation for start-ups and the most exciting developments in the digital music business. You can follow Cliff on Twitter (@Fflic) and I also recommend that you check out this video of a presentation he did on the roadmap for branded content shot at MIPTV : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r1qAf3-Ddc.
As usual you can visit www.digitalmusictrends.com for more information on the show and you can email digitalmusictrends@gmail.com to send feedback. You can also follow me on twitter, the handle is @digimusictrends.
Hello everyone, this week it's both the 80th episode of Digital Music Trends and the 2nd anniversary of the show so I would like to thank you for your support all this time, I hope you enjoy this long anniversary edition with three interviews!
This week on the show a quick update from the CEO of MXP4 Albin Serviant, they have just launched a new product called Bopler - then a lenghty interview with Drew Larner, the CEO of Rdio, where we talk about the company, business model, licenses and lots more and finally an interview with the CEO of Get Ctrl Nick Holden - Get Ctrl has just been shortlisted for the Music Week Awards in the B2B digital service of the year category.
Monday, March 12, 2012 at 1:00PM | 