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Rene Merideth

443 posts

Exploration Weekly - Apple “Acqui-Hires” Asaii / Spotify Buys Minority Stake in DistroKid / Concert Tickets Now Sold Via YouTube-Eventbrite Deal

“Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.” Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The technology and music industries were both witness to a slew of deals and »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 19 October 2018

Exploration Weekly - President Signs MMA Into Law / SoundCloud Opens Direct Monetization Program / Genius Adds Lyrics Feature to Apple Music

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 12 October 2018

Exploration Weekly - Sony, Warner Invest In Tencent IPO / SoundCloud Teams With Pandora / Spotify Denied Lawsuit Dismissal

“The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless.” A.E. Samaan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exploration’s co-founder and chief operating officer Rene Merideth will »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 05 October 2018

Exploration Weekly - MMA Approved by the House of Representatives / SiriusXM Buys Pandora / Apple Music Converts 2.5 Times Faster Than Spotify

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” Ovid -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week marked a momentous point of progress for the Music Modernization Act »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 28 September 2018

Exploration Weekly - MMA Approved by the US Senate / Spotify Lets Artists Directly Upload Music to Service / Apple Music Now Searchable by Lyrics

“Where words leave off, music begins.” Heinrich Heine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Music Modernization Act was passed Tuesday September 18 by the US Senate based on a unanimous »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 21 September 2018

Exploration Weekly - EU Approves New Copyright Reforms / MMA Anticipates Changes in Congress / Apple Music Streaming Market Share Up 3%

“Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 14 September 2018

Exploration Weekly - YT Calls Out EU Copyright Directive / UK Music Exports Total £408.4M in 2017 / Spotify Inks Deals in Indonesia and Thailand

“It is with our voices we remember, with our ears we understand.” Elizabeth Hunter, The Singer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As the European Parliament is set to review the »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 07 September 2018

Exploration Weekly - Tencent Music To IPO This Fall / MMA Reaches Handshake Deal / YT India To Hit 500M MAU In Two Years

“Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.” Henry Mosquera, Sleeper's Run -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tencent »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 31 August 2018

Exploration Weekly - Spotify Releases Podcasts / YT Merges Artist Channel Subscriptions / Court Rules No New Copyright for Remastered Recordings

“The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind” Maria Cristina Mena, The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 24 August 2018

Exploration Weekly - Citi Report Posts Inaccuracies / IMPALA Worried Over Sony’s EMI Deals / Spotify Launches Music Credits on iOS

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!” J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 17 August 2018

Exploration Weekly - MMA Statutory Mechanical Licenses / Warner Sells Entire Spotify Stake for $504M / Spotify Partners with Samsung

“Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.” Charles Hart, The Phantom of the Opera -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- According to an email exchange »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 10 August 2018

Exploration Weekly - SESAC Reaches Compromise Over MMA / Sony Acquires All Of EMI / Vivendi To Sell 50% Of UMG

"Music gives infinite strength." Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great Mind -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After much debate over the MMA amendments proposed by Blackstone-owned SESAC, »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 03 August 2018

Exploration Weekly - MMA Endangered by Blackstone Intervention / Spotify Announces 83M Subscribers / Global Music Copyright Worth $26B in 2016

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston S. Churchill -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Songwriter organizations are concerned »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 27 July 2018

Exploration Weekly - Apple Music Touts US Subscribers / Spotify Reveals Pitching Feature / UnitedMasters Launches Data-Driven Distribution Service

"There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting your turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 20 July 2018

Exploration Weekly - DOJ Terminates Outdated Consent Decrees / Apple Expected to Surpass Spotify / Streams Up 41.6% in First Half of 2018

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.” Tupac Shakur -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New changes made »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 13 July 2018

Exploration Weekly - Senate Judiciary Committee Passes MMA / EU Copyright Directive Rejected Thursday / Tencent Filing IPO This Week

“music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.” T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-1962 »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 06 July 2018

Exploration Weekly - Apple Mulls Subscription Bundle / YT Offers New Monetization for Creators / A2IM CEO Richard Burgess Calls Out DSPs

“Any good music must be an innovation.” Les Baxter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The news today highlights tech company Apple as sources say it will possibly be releasing a »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 29 June 2018

Exploration Weekly - YT Music Premium Launches in 17 Countries / A Summary of the MMA / Major Labels Unhappy With Spotify Going Direct

“Music gives color to the air of the moment.” Karl Lagerfeld -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YouTube Music Premium is now available in a total of 17 countries this week. »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 22 June 2018

Exploration Weekly - Investors Respond to Spotify’s Direct Licensing Deals / NMPA Discusses DOJ Consent Decrees / Net Neutrality Officially Ends

“It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.” Nina »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 15 June 2018

Exploration Weekly - Facebook Makes Music Moves / Spotify Offers Advances for Direct Deals / Tuma Basa Joins YT as Director of Urban Music

“There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music.” Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After Facebook reportedly entered multi-territory licensing »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 08 June 2018

Exploration Weekly - Apple Builds Music Publishing Dept / BMI vs. RMLC / New Fees at Copyright Office

“Excuse me if I have Some place in my mind Where I go time to time.” Tom Petty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It appears that Apple Music will now »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 01 June 2018

What is a Composition?

Why we wrote this guide The purpose of this guide is to provide a detailed account of what a composition is and to further elucidate the »

Rene Merideth on learn, the-basics 01 June 2018

Exploration Weekly - MMA Challenged by New Alternative Bill / Sony Buys 90% of EMI / YouTube Music Officially Launches

“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 25 May 2018

Exploration Weekly - YouTube Announces Premium Service and Music Credits / Smokey Robinson Urges for Copyright Reform / Merlin Sells 100% of Its Spotify Shares

“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week, Exploration's co-founder »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 18 May 2018

Exploration Weekly - WMG Sells 75% of Spotify Shares / Spotify’s Q1 2018 Breakdown / YouTube Launches New Music Charts

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” William Faulkner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don’t miss co-founder and CEO of »

Rene Merideth on exploration-weekly 10 May 2018

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