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Vevo Is Shuttering Its Own Website And Apps

by David Coleman on May 25, 2018

FORBES reports, “VEVO, the YOUTUBE-style video platform owned by most of the major record labels in the music industry, announced today [5/25] that it is planning on shuttering its consumer-facing website and its consumer-facing apps. It isn’t clear exactly when these items will be gone, but they are not long for this world… though that’s not […]

The Global Sync Market Is Set To Explode For Indie Artists and Labels

by David Coleman on January 31, 2017

The amount of money pouring into record companies from sync keeps on growing. According to IFPI figures, record companies accrued $355m from licensing their tracks to video games, movies and TV in 2015 – up 6.6% year-on-year. The US is the world’s largest sync market, accounting for 57% of 2015’s revenue with $203m, while other […]

When is a mix truly done for you?

by David Coleman on November 24, 2015

The other day I was going through some of the opportunity pages on Indaba. I have an audio engineering background so I naturally gravitate towards the Telefunken contests. When browsing discussions on the Telefunken: “Rivers Rising” Mixing Contest, I suddenly came across an interesting thread! Daniel Yantosca from The Woodlands, Texas proposed a great topic […]