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Songs as cultural moments (and why TikTok trends are so appealing)

Hanna Kahlert

31 May 2024

TikTok

A&R

Streaming

The music industry is racing in two different directions at once. On the one side is the push for more music to be made by more people for less money – underpinning the $500 million valuation of Suno...

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AI is the new digital ad industry… but the stakes are far greater

Hanna Kahlert

9 Aug 2023

AI

Digital

ads

Zoom has been making the news this week over its controversial new terms and conditions that now allow the service (in theory) to utilise user data to train its AI-assisted features. While the company...

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Facebook faces anti-trust lawsuits, sounding a warning to big tech

Hanna Kahlert

16 Dec 2020

ads

data

Facebook

Last Wednesday, 48 US State attorneys general and the US Federal Trade Commission filed lawsuits against Facebook, echoing the hearings before Congress earlier this year in declaring that the company’s...

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Bad Data Is The Worm In The Apple For Streaming Music

Mark Mulligan

14 Mar 2016

7Digital

Bad Data

data

2016 is proving to be tricky year for streaming rights. No sooner did it start to look like artists and labels were beginning to feel comfortable with streaming then along come a veritable flood of songwriter...

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