January 17, 2025 OK Go’s new music video is 64 phones of pure joy OK Go has reintroduced itself as a creative force with a new video that’s a whimsical riff on modern digital life. BY Mark Wilson It’s been a decade since OK Go released its last album, and three years since its last music … Continue reading OK Go’s new music video is 64 phones of pure joy
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Spotify is adding new markets to its music video test
October 15, 2024 Spotify is adding new markets to its music video test Users who discover a song and then watch the accompanying video on Spotify are 34% more likely on average to listen to the song again the following week. BY Jessica Bursztynsky Spotify is expanding its beta test of adding music videos to the … Continue reading Spotify is adding new markets to its music video test
Verizon sued by record labels for serving those accused of music piracy
Verizon sued by record labels for serving those accused of music piracy Rachael Davies Tech Journalist Major record labels have banded together to sue Verizon for violating copyright law by serving those accused of music piracy. On Friday July 12, major record labels including Universal, Sony, and Warner have alleged that internet service provider … Continue reading Verizon sued by record labels for serving those accused of music piracy
YouTube Music Seen In The Wild With An AI Gemini Extension
YouTube Music Seen In The Wild With An AI Gemini Extension by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, May 6, 2024 Google wants to make tasks and information gathering across its services and platforms as easy to gain, retain and use as possible. Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) will help it get there by weaving all of … Continue reading YouTube Music Seen In The Wild With An AI Gemini Extension
The quest to build more accessible music tech for blind and visually impaired artists
By Janko Roettgers February 09, 2024 Stevie Wonder. Ray Charles. Andrea Bocelli. If you were to ask a random person to name a blind musician, one of those three would almost inevitably come up. Ask that same person about up-and-coming blind musicians, and they’ll likely draw a blank. That’s no accident, according to Athan … Continue reading The quest to build more accessible music tech for blind and visually impaired artists
Strike A Chord: The Connection Between Music And Search
Strike A Chord: The Connection Between Music And Search by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, December 15, 2023 From her Dallas-based home office with several guitars hanging on the wall, Amy Rumpler, senior vice president of search and social media services at Basis Technologies, talked about music, instruments, and the integration with Google Performance Max. … Continue reading Strike A Chord: The Connection Between Music And Search
YouTube rolls out AI music makers to take on TikTok
YouTube rolls out AI music makers to take on TikTok Radek Zielinski / Nov 17, 2023 YouTube has unveiled two new AI-powered music creation tools — Dream Track and Music AI — to help creators make engaging short videos that compete better with rivals like TikTok. The new tools allow users to generate original songs … Continue reading YouTube rolls out AI music makers to take on TikTok
Block acquires music financial services startup Hifi
Block acquires music financial services startup Hifi Deanna Ritchie / Oct 12, 2023 Jack Dorsey, the founder of Block — which used to be Square — has now acquired Hifi, a music-focused fintech startup. HiFi was launched in the US in 2020. Matt Pincus joined the HiFi board and became an investor in the … Continue reading Block acquires music financial services startup Hifi
YouTube, Universal Music Group Announce Incubator, Principles For AI
YouTube, Universal Music Group Announce Incubator, Principles For AI by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 21, 2023 YouTube has launched the YouTube Music AI Incubator program with artists, songwriters and producers from Universal Music Group, which supported the creation of three music principles based on generative artificial intelligence (GAI). The program combines some of today’s most … Continue reading YouTube, Universal Music Group Announce Incubator, Principles For AI
Spotify reportedly wants to add full-length music videos to its app
Spotify opens video podcast publishing to more creators Jon Fingas @jonfingas Spotify is ready to let anyone offer video podcasts — and this time, you won’t need to apply. As of today, all creators in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand can publish video podcasts through Anchor. You can charge … Continue reading Spotify reportedly wants to add full-length music videos to its app