Exploration Weekly – The Music Industry Report – 2020 / Key Takeaways Pt. 1
“Data are just summaries of thousands of stories — tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.” Chip & Dan Heath, Authors of »
Exploration Presents...The Music Industry Report – 2020 / California Copyright Conference Dec. 1 "The MLC" / Happy Thanksgiving to You and Yours
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know »
Exploration Weekly - YouTube Launches 15-Second Audio Ads / Wixen Hits Triller With $50M Copyright Lawsuit / Study Finds Music Supports 2M Jobs
“You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.” Jay »
Exploration Weekly - Spotify Acquires Podcast Ad Platform Megaphone / Twitch in Talks to License Music / Tencent Music Subscribers Up By 10% in Q3
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” Douglas Adams -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spotify »
Exploration Weekly - Music Publishers Ask CRB to Set Interim Rates / Hipgnosis Buys Kobalt Catalogs / Spotify Algorithm Allows Artist and Label Input
“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.” Friedrich Nietzsche -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A motion was filed this week by »
Exploration Weekly - Global Music Publishing Up 8.4% in 2019 / Music UGC Could Be Worth $6B Over Next Two Years / YouTube Revenue Up 32% in Q3
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” Thomas A. Edison -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Global music publishing collections grew »
Exploration Weekly - MLC Week October 26-30 / Snap Hits Record $50 Billion Valuation / Twitch Creators Receive Another Round of DMCA Takedown Notices
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert »
Exploration Weekly - Spotify Merges Podcasts with Music for Creators / IFPI and WIN’s Data Exchange Service RDx Now Live / Snapchat Launches Sounds
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spotify is »
Exploration Weekly - Triller Signs Licensing Deal with ICE / The MLC Announces Nashville HQ / Latin Music Revenues Rise 18.6% in the US During H1 2020
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak »
Exploration Weekly - An Early Look Into The MLC Portal / Twitch Launches Pre-Cleared Music Library / YouTube is Top Source to Music Discovery
“Dare to create your own version, it might be better than what you were hearing all your life.” Sami Abouzid -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The MLC offered its first »
Exploration Weekly - Shira Perlmutter Appointed Register of Copyrights / CISAC Revamps ISWC System / Spotify, Chernin Entertainment Ink Film/TV Deal
“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.” John Dryden -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shira Perlmutter has been appointed as the 14th Register of Copyrights this week »
LAST CHANCE: Music Industry Report - 2020 - Survey - DEADLINE EXTENDED
“If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can' »
Music Industry Report - 2020 - Survey - Deadline September 15th
Exploration is excited to have partnered with the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce in order to present to you the Music Industry Report - 2020, a »
Music Industry Report - 2020 - Survey - Deadline September 15th
Exploration has so far reached over 1,500 survey responses for the Music Industry Report - 2020 - Survey, and we would like to thank all »
Music Industry Report - 2020 - Survey - Deadline September 15th
We break from our regularly scheduled programming this week to invite you to participate in the Music Industry Report - 2020 - Survey. So far, we »
Exploration Weekly - Tencent Ups Stake in Gaana / The MLC Posts Webinars for Self-Administered Songwriters / #TheShowMustBePaused Issues New Demands
“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.” James Joyce -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tencent’s stake in Indian »
Exploration Weekly - TikTok Counts 689M Users Worldwide / SESAC Inks Licensing Deal with RMLC / Spotify Expands Discover Weekly Sponsorship to EMEA
“Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.” Albert-Laszlo Barabasi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TikTok revealed »
Exploration Weekly - Music Industry Report - 2020 // Music Industry News Podcast
“My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me »
Exploration Weekly - DSPs Win Appeal Over CRB Royalty Hike / “Apple One” Subscription to Launch in October / Spotify Partners with Russian Telco MTS
“Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.” G.K. Chesterton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DC Circuit Court of Appeals decided in an opinion published on »
Exploration Weekly - Instagram Launches Reels / Google Play Music to be Replaced by YouTube Music / Snap, Inc. Secures Music Licensing Deals
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” Aristotle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week, Facebook’s photo sharing app, Instagram, launched a new video feature called Reels. The »
Exploration Weekly - DOJ Holds Workshop on ASCAP, BMI Consent Decrees / YT Revenue Falls to $3.8B / The MLC Rolls Out DQI to Vistex, Inc. Customers
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” Marie Curie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Department of »
Exploration Weekly - TikTok Inks Licensing Deal with NMPA / SoundExchange Validated as Source for ISRC Data / The MLC Seeks Music Publisher Reps
“When used correctly, data is not the enemy of Intuitive Creative Thinkers; it is a powerful friend.” Leena Patel, Raise Your Innovation IQ: 21 Ways to »
Exploration Weekly - Spotify Launches in Russia / Google Invests $4.5 Billion in Jio Platforms / Latin Music Listening Up 15.9% in 2020
“Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.” Meredith Brooks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spotify has officially launched its service in Russia and 12 new »
Exploration Weekly - The MLC Announces Tools to Help Songwriters and Publishers / YT Rolls Out Analytics for Artists / Spotify Set to Launch in Russia
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” Maya Angelou -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC), which »
What is the Mechanical Licensing Collective?
The Musical Works Modernization Act, which creates a blanket license for interactive streaming services, and establishes a mechanical licensing collective (MLC) as well as a digital »