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Ticketfly wants to improve its ticketing platform by making the lives of promoters easier. A new product, named Ticketfly Promoter, will help promoters with such tasks as tracking holds and managing multiple venues. …

I meet many very talented entrepreneurs who are great at what they do. Often I’ll hear them using that common phrase, “if you want it done right, do it yourself”, and upon further discussion they’ll almost always reveal that they struggle with the act of delegation. It can be an incredibly hard concept to embrace…

In the wake of multiple terrorist attacks in Paris, live music promoters large and small are promising to step up security. But most are remaining vague about exactly what that means or how it will effect concert goers….

Blondie’s “Heart of Glass,” the Grateful Dead’s American Beauty album, the O’Jays’ “For the Love of Money,” Fleetwood Mac’s eponymous 1975 album and Joe Cocker’s “You Are So Beautiful” are among the 26 new recordings that will be inducted into The Recording Academy’s Grammy Hall of Fame in 2016. Now in its 43rd year, the Grammy Hall of Fame brings to 1,013 its total number of…

Univision Now costs $5.99 per month or $59.99 per year and allows for live viewing of the Univision and UniMas broadcast networks and some on-demand access. Univision Communications said Wednesday it has launched Univision Now, a direct-to-consumer service available on iOS, Android and online with a monthly or annual subscription fee….

While it may be the dream of many artists to end up on the front page of Rolling Stone or Pollstar, such a feat isn’t only difficult to achieve, it’s also not as beneficialas they may assume. This article offers several compelling reasons why up-and-coming artists are better off approaching smaller blogs for their promotional needs….

Today Spotify is giving the truly vast number of artists available on its platform access to data on how they’re being listened to. The data can be useful, if understood, interpreted and contextualized properly, to artists trying to identify untapped audiences or optimize their tour routing….

Google claims that across YouTube and Google Play Music, it has now paid out more than $3bn to the recorded music industry to date. Because this is a blended rate across two services, it’s very difficult to determine absolutes for what it means for Google’s generosity (or otherwise) when it comes to royalty rate payouts…

Pandora is feeling mighty bullish. Last night, the US streaming platform announced its intention to acquire key assets from on-demand music service Rdio – which, it transpires, is about to file for bankruptcy in the States. Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews (pictured, main) and CFO Mike Herring (pictured, inset) addressed investors after the $75m buyout was announced….

I remember when I first got to Los Angeles, I found myself having dinner with Jeff Ayeroff, a well-known music executive, at The Ivy in Santa Monica. At the time, I was co-president & COO of Warner Bros Records, and since Jeff had executed some of the most memorable creative while at WBR, I was looking…