Sounds of the Crowd
How Soundcloud brought together the long tail of musicians and a global audience to create a vibrant online community.
How Soundcloud brought together the long tail of musicians and a global audience to create a vibrant online community.
This is the story of Tradiio, a music startup that launched as a crowdsourced virtual stock market for emerging artists and later pivoted to become a direct-to-fan crowdfunding platform.
This post explores how SoundCloud built a successful digital music platform.
Sony had all the hard components needed for a streaming service and it launched one 4 years before Apple but lack of understanding in user expectations cost them to turn the service down.
musica.ly was one of the hottest apps of 2015 and 2016 – and hasn't left the App Store Top 40 ever since. Are its 15-second videos a one-hit wonder, or are they here to stay?
Founded in 2005, Hype Machine sources music through a hand-picked catalogue of music blogs from around the world.
Spotify's music streaming model leverages growing network effects to (hopefully) save the struggling music industry.