Music/Audio

Digital audio inventory is increasingly available for programmatic purchase. But while audio publishers see value in the audience-based buying and granular targeting that programma... More

The top three music labels are set to renegotiate their licensing deals with Google-owned streaming giant YouTube, the Financial Times reported Sunday. Falling album sales and the ... More

Music streaming service Vevo has been working to extract itself from YouTube’s shadow over the past several months, despite the two networks’ symbiotic relationship. The compan... More

he access model is undoubtedly the future of music, and its services are finally showing a glimpse of their potential. There shouldn’t be any expectations of reaching anything li... More

Music streaming service Spotify now has 30 million paying subscribers. Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek announced the new milestone on Twitter on Monday morning, breaking a long s... More

By Paul Sweeting SoundExchange, the digital performance royalty collection agency, along with the international record industry association IFPI, this week unveiled its long-await... More

On the heels of the success of its Discover Weekly feature, Spotify is adding another curated service so that users can find new music. Called Fresh Finds, the new weekly Wednesday... More

In ages past when monaural sound was the standard for TV, audio was regarded by many as an afterthought when it came to television. Thankfully, that mindset began changing decades ... More

It works like this: The wireless earbuds, about the diameter of dimes and thick as chocolate-peanut butter cups, connect to your smart phone and can customize hearing in real time ... More

Vinyl never went away, but did enter into a dormant state for many years. Then there was a resurgence in 2012 that climaxed in 2015 with a 51% growth rate. The recent history of vi... More

The single biggest complaint from artists about Spotify has been its free tier, which is ad-supported and pays out a much lower per-stream rate than its premium service. Artists fe... More

The pace of subscription adoption has a good chance of accelerating further. Both well-funded Spotify and deep-pocketed Apple have the ability to improve their products and expand ... More

Spotify was a bit late to programmatic, but now it’s raring to go. “2015 was the year we started opening up, which was huge for us, and 2016 is the year we’re going to be ful... More

It remains to be seen how successful Genius will be in its forays outside its own borders; the company is still tinkering with its Spotify integration and while the Web Annotator h... More

The continual rise of media streaming services like Netflix and Spotify has not only transformed consumer behavior, but has also freed creators from traditional TV and radio progra... More

Amazon is prepping a Spotify-killer, music sources tell The Post. The e-commerce giant has held meetings in the past few weeks to discuss licensing tunes for a full-blown subscript... More

Dolby Pro Logic, Dolby Digital and Dolby Atmos have all been amazing audio technologies for both cinema and home theater. In fact, I think that switching to surround sound is just ... More

Spotify has 75 million users in 58 countries. On average, each Spotify user listens to 148 minutes of music on Spotify per day. As you might imagine, Spotify can collect a ton of d... More

Spotify AB is finally rolling out its video product to the masses. The Swedish music-streaming service is planning to introduce video content on its Android app starting this week,... More

The reason this is interesting for Spotify is that it could help the service be more of a platform for its 75 million users. As we wrote last week when Spotify announced a deal wit... More