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Total Album Equivalent Consumption In the U.S. Increased 23% in 2018: International Acts Go Mainstream and Female Artists Lead the Way

Nielson
Nielson

Amid an array of choice when it comes to platforms and devices for media consumption, one thing remains constant: Americans’ unwavering love for music. According to Nielsen, the music industry experienced significant overall growth in 2018, with total album equivalent audio consumption up 23% over 2017, driven by a 49% increase in on-demand audio song…

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More Explosive Data: Total On-Demand Music Streams Rose 49% in 2018

Digital Music News
Digital Music News

According to Nielsen’s just-published data, the music industry experienced significant overall growth in 2018. Total album equivalent audio consumption grew 23% over 2017.  This was driven by a 49% increase in on-demand audio song streams last year.

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IA Industry Indicators

Internet Association
Internet Association

We need better measures. We need better measures for the internet and other technologies and we need better measures on their impacts on our economy and society. The IA Industry Indicators (3I) Report is a new quarterly report from Internet Association that directly tackles the challenges of the 21st century economy by delivering new insights into America’s…

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Pandora’s Podcast Genome Project goes live for all

TechCrunch
Sarah Perez

Last month, Pandora announced it would soon be bringing its “Genome” technology to a new space outside of music: it would leverage a similar classification system to make podcast recommendations, too. Initially, the feature was only available to select users on mobile devices, ahead of a broader public launch. Today, Pandora says its Podcast Genome Project has gone live for…

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Metro Chamber Annual Meeting: Workforce Key to City’s Global Growth, Local Prosperity

Global Atlanta
Trevor Williams

If there’s one word beyond all the sloganeering that defined the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s annual meeting Thursday, it might be “mirror.” Representatives of a range of companies, from BlackRock to Pandora, intimated on stage that they located in Atlanta partly because it’s an emerging tech hub, but mostly because they could see their culture and their growth ethic…

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IA Privacy Principles For A Modern National Regulatory Framework

Internet Association
Internet Association

The time is right to modernize our federal rules and develop a national framework for consumer privacy. That framework should be consistent nationwide, proportional, flexible, and should encourage companies to act as good stewards of the personal information provided to them by individuals.

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Towards A Better Understanding Of Internet Economics

Internet Association
Richard Adler

It is all but impossible to miss the signs of the far-reaching impact of the internet: the near-ubiquitousness of mobile phones and other connected devices; the billions of times daily that these devices are checked and the number of hours Americans spend “on screen”; the growth of digital media; the prominent role of social networks…

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Every Berklee Career a Startup: Students Explore Silicon Valley over Winter Break

Berklee's Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship
Belinda Huang

This winter break, Berklee’s Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship (BerkleeICE) took a group of 20 students from diverse backgrounds and majors to the frontier of innovation and technology during its second annual trip to Silicon Valley. The students were given a view into the careers and creative headspace of leaders who are pioneering the future in companies…