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In this special episode, Joe Sparrow spoke to musicians Zoë Keating and David Lowery - two of the most prominent voices for artists’ rights in the streaming era. They spoke in the light of recent public discussions about how the model pays off for musicians – #BrokenRecord in the UK for example – and how they think streaming could and should improve. Keating has regularly published her streaming income data to further transparency around payouts for artists, and Lowery runs artist-rights blog The Trichordist, and and also filed a class action lawsuit against Spotify in 2015, which was settled in 2017. You can read the accompanying article on Music Ally here. Sign up for Music Ally's streaming TV show: https://musically.lnk.to/TVShowSignup  Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musicallybiz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/musically Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musicallyfb/ For more knowledge: http://learn.musically.com Music Ally is a Knowledge Company http://musically.com

This episode: A learnings-focussed workshop that asks: how do you put marketing at the very centre of an artist's career? Coherence, coordination, and - yes - *synergy* are the goals in the age of multi-faceted marketing campaigns- but by its very nature, that's all complicated to do. So what are the practical steps to build a multi-platform, multi-faceted campaign that feels synchronised?   Expert guests include Ali Murphy, International Marketing Manager of Secretly Group, Charles Kirby-Welch, CEO & founder of Kartel Music Group, and Henriette Heimdal, Market Development UK & EU at CD Baby.  It's hosted by Music Ally writer Joe Sparrow and features Patrick Ross, Music Ally's SVP of Digital Strategy, as regular panelist. Sign up for the next one: https://musically.lnk.to/TVShowSignup Episodes Live Fridays 4pm CET / 3pm UK / 10am ET / 7am PT Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musicallybiz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/musically Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musicallyfb/ For more knowledge: http://learn.musically.com  Music Ally is a Knowledge Company http://musically.com

Music Ally Today takes a key story from Music Ally’s daily music industry newsletter and gives you the analysis you need to know. Joe and Stu discuss how events have, it's fair to say, moved fast since Friday for TikTok's business in the US. The latest news is confirmation from Microsoft that it's in talks about an acquisition of TikTok in the US and certain other countries, with a mid-September deadline to reach an agreement with the app's parent company ByteDance – not to mention the US president. Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musicallybiz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/musically Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musicallyfb/ For more knowledge: http://learn.musically.com Music Ally is a Knowledge Company http://musically.com #MusicAllyTV

Music Ally Today takes a key story from Music Ally’s daily music industry newsletter and gives you the analysis you need to know. Today: Joe Sparrow and Stuart Dredge discuss how Spotify ended Q2 with 138 million subscribers and 299 million monthly active users, having added eight million and 13 million respectively that quarter. Meanwhile, Spotify generated revenues of 1.89bn in Q2, up by 13% year-on-year. It recorded an operating loss of €167m and a net loss of €356m for the quarter. PLUS: Stu interviewed Daniel Ek - and he had some comments about the future of music-making that has made some artists very angry... (Full interview: https://musically.com/2020/07/30/spotify-ceo-talks-covid-19-artist-incomes-and-podcasting-interview/) Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musicallybiz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/musically Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musicallyfb/ For more knowledge: http://learn.musically.com Music Ally is a Knowledge Company http://musically.com #MusicAllyTV

Music Ally Today takes a key story from Music Ally’s daily music industry newsletter and gives you the analysis you need to know. Today: Joe Sparrow and Stuart Dredge discuss how 'Folklore' is being sold in China, on streaming service NetEase Cloud Music. The album *isn't* available on that platform's free OR paid tiers, but instead has to be paid for: RMB 25 ($3.55) for the album or RMB 2 ($0.28) per track, which lets people download and stream the music. Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musicallybiz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/musically Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musicallyfb/  For more knowledge: http://learn.musically.com  Music Ally is a Knowledge Company http://musically.com #MusicAllyTV

This episode: A Spotify marketing special! How can artists use Spotify's tools to maximise their impact on - and off - the platform?  In this workshop-panel we’re going to talk to Spotify’s Charleton Lamb and Jeff Stempeck about getting the most out of Spotify for Artists, the Playlist Submission tool, Canvas, Marquee and more. We’ll also get the perspective of some real-world marketers who’ve used Spotify as a marketing tool to great effect: Moody Jones of EMPIRE and Breyner Baptista of Blackstar London. So let’s dig into how we can all wring the most out of the tools, and how to build them into nuanced, successful artist campaigns.  It's hosted by Music Ally writer Joe Sparrow and features regular panelist Patrick Ross, Music Ally's SVP of Digital Strategy.   GUESTS: Charleton Lamb - Senior Product Marketing Manager @ Spotify   Jeff Stempeck - Lead, Artist & Label Marketing @ Spotify Moody Jones - Vice President Digital and Creative @ EMPIRE: https://www.empi.re Breyner Baptista - Marketing Executive @ Blackstar London: https://www.blackstarlondon.com/ Henriette Heimdal - Market Development Coordinator for Europe and the UK @ CD Baby

This episode: Look past necessity and novelty - what is the real future of livestreaming gigs? We’re talking to Russ Tannen, CRO of DICE and Roxanne de Bastion, Artist and Board Director of The Featured Artists Coalition, who recently "virtually toured" the UK to support her recent single ERASE, about livestreaming artists from a platform perspective. What do users want, what do artists want, and what are the payment opportunities? It's de rigueur to stream gig and events now - but will they have longevity, how will it fit into a longer term marketing/income mix and what are the short term opportunities? What are the changes that will need to happen for artists and fans to ride out the novelty and make livestreaming into money for artists, and truly unique, intimate performances for fans?   It's hosted by Music Ally writer Joe Sparrow and features Henriette Heimdal of CD Baby and Patrick Ross, Music Ally's SVP of Digital Strategy, as regular panelists.  For anyone interested in learning more about the various platforms offering live-streaming capabilities and how to bring live online, we have a brand new module on our Music Ally Learning Hub: https://learn.musically.com/p/bringing-live-online Featuring: Roxanne de Bastion - Artist and Board Director @ The Featured Artists Coalition:  http://www.roxannedebastion.com/ https://thefac.org/ Russ Tannen - CRO @ DICE: http://dice.fm/ Henriette Heimdal - Market Development @ CD Baby: https://cdbaby.com Joe Sparrow - Lord Music Ally Contributor  Patrick Ross - SVP, Digital Strategy @ Music Ally

This episode: A #TheShowMustBePaused Next Steps special. All kinds of music companies, Music Ally included, took the day of 2 June 2020 to pause their regular work so that people could educate themselves; attend protests; make donations; reconnect with their communities; and discuss ways forward for the industry. So what are the actionable, structural, long-term changes that should be made, why should they happen, who should be doing what, and what are the first steps? Featuring: Mulika Sannie - VP, Business Affairs for Kobalt and founder of the UK Black Music Lawyers Network: http://kobaltmusic.com/ Keith Harris OBE - General Manager of EMI, Business Manager for Stevie Wonder, former Chairman of the MMF, chaired the Equality and Diversity Taskforce, and so much more Estée Blu - London Singer-Songwriter and Sound Connections Trustee: https://www.esteeblu.com/ Joe Sparrow -  Music Ally Contributor Patrick Ross - SVP, Digital Strategy @ Music Ally Taken from the 8th Episode of Music Ally TV: #TheShowMustBePaused Next Steps special  Sign up for the next one: https://musically.lnk.to/TVShowSignup Episodes Live Fridays 4pm CET / 3pm UK / 10am ET / 7am PT  Links mentioned in the show: Keith's open letter to the music industry: https://medium.com/@keithharrismusic/an-open-letter-to-the-music-industry-298e249698c7 Estée's Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBD9lhsgE-Y/ UK Black Music Lawyers Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12136593/ Music Ally reporting: https://musically.com/tag/theshowmustbepaused Estée Blu: https://esteeblu.bandcamp.com/ Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musicallybiz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/musically Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musicallyfb/ For more knowledge: http://learn.musically.com Music Ally is a Knowledge Company http://musically.com #MusicAllyTV #TheShowMustBePaused #BlackOutTuesday

This episode: Music Ally TV show builds on the conversation with the #brokenrecord campaign we had a few weeks ago, where we discussed what the problem was – and now we’re moving the conversation on to talk about how change can happen and whether licensing needs modernisation.   Guests: in an exclusive pre-recorded interview, award-winning author and activist Cory Doctorow discusses his revolutionary plan for a blanket internet music license, which he created on behalf of the digital civil liberties organisation Electronic Frontier Foundation. Cory is highly critical of major labels and existing licensing structures, and so joining us live on the panel to help explore these ideas are licensing experts Becky Brook and Cliff Fluet, who has forgotten more about licensing than the rest of us on the show know – and have strong opinions of their own.   Featuring: Cory Doctorow - Special Advisor @ Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/ Becky Brook - Licensing & Strategy Consultant @ Becky Brook Consulting: http://www.beckybrook.com Cliff Fluet - Managing Director @ Eleven Advisory: http://elevenadvisory.com   Henriette Heimdal - Market Development @ CD Baby: https://cdbaby.com Joe Sparrow - Lord Music Ally Contributor Patrick Ross - SVP, Digital Strategy @ Music Ally   Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musicallybiz/Twitter: https://twitter.com/musicallyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/musicallyfb/  For more knowledge: http://learn.musically.com Music Ally is a Knowledge Company http://musically.com

Sign up for the next one: https://musically.lnk.to/TVShowSignup | Episodes Live Fridays 4pm CET / 3pm UK / 10am ET / 7am PT This episode: Superstar DJ Martin Jensen joins us to discuss live-streaming performances and connecting directly with fans. With over 1 billion streams on Spotify alone, remixes for Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran, and a #45 spot in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJ’s Poll, Martin normally DJs on huge stages at Lollapalooza and Tomorrowland. But when COVID-19 hit, he switched to streaming his shows on Twitch: one 5-hour DJ set from the centre of Denmark’s national stadium in Copenhagen pulled in almost 1 million viewers. We’ll talk to Martin about what fans really want from a live-stream, how to communicate with them before and during it, and what the future of online live performance is.  Featuring: Martin Jensen - DJ: https://martinjensen.com/ Henriette Heimdal - Market Development @ CD Baby: https://cdbaby.com Joe Sparrow - Lord Music Ally Contributor Patrick Ross - SVP, Digital Strategy @ Music Ally Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musicallybiz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/musically Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musicallyfb/ For more knowledge: http://learn.musically.com Music Ally is a Knowledge Company http://musically.com #MusicAllyTV #MartinJensen