Online video ‘value gap’ severely damages streaming payouts in France

According to figures communicated by BPI and Snep, roughly the same number of music streams were played in the UK and France in 2015: 54 billion in the former, 50 billion in the latter.

Yet when you crunch these numbers further, something isn’t right.

In 2015, the UK’s 53.7 billion streams consisted of a 50 – 50 split between audio and video.

Yet in France, the breakdown between audio and video streams was an unbalanced 35% – 65% split in favour of video.

Source: www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

DAO, la première société de financement participatif dématérialisée grâce à la blockchain

DAO est présenté comme un modèle pour un nouveau type d’organisation, créé et exécuté à l’aide du logiciel blockchain plutôt que par des structures d’entreprise classiques. Elle change de paradigme dans l’idée même de l’organisation économique, puisqu’elle offre une transparence complète, le contrôle total des actionnaires, de la flexibilité, ainsi qu’une gouvernance autonome, car l’ensemble des opérations et décisions sont inscrites dans le code source de la blockchain, elle-même régie par la technologie algorithmique. N’importe qui peut donc investir dans DAO.

Source: www.letemps.ch

DAO, la première société de financement participatif dématérialisée grâce à la blockchain

C’est une révolution cryptographique née au début du mois de mai qui repense en profondeur la structure de l’entreprise et des échanges économiques. Ce bouleversement a un nom: DAO. Un acronyme pour Distributed Autonomous Organization derrière lequel se cache la première société d’investissement entièrement autonome et décentralisée fonctionnant grâce à la blockchain, c’est-à-dire la technologie algorithmique sur laquelle reposent les crypto-monnaies comme le Bitcoin ou l’ether.

Source: www.letemps.ch

YouTube is paying less than £0.0009 per stream to UK record labels 

We got good news back in January when we learned that, at a retail level, the UK’s recorded music industry grew 3.5% in 2015.

Today, a reality check: the money which then made its way to labels from sales and streaming actually fell 0.9% in the year to £688m ($1bn), says the BPI.

When performance rights are folded in, total label income did rise by a sliver (0.6%) in 2015 – some positive news, but meager consolation when new startling figures about YouTube are considered.

According to the BPI’s new Music Market 2016 yearbook, 26.9 billion video streams of music (across YouTube and Vevo) were measured by the Official Charts Company in 2015, up 88% on the year before.

Meanwhile, audio streams grew at a slightly slower pace. They were up 82% to 26.6bn streams.

That meant Vevo and YouTube were responsible for more than 50% of all on-demand music streams in the year – up on the 49% these services claimed in 2014.

Source: www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

SoundCloud 101: Monetization and SoundCloud Go 

SoundCloud Go is a whole new way to make revenue for your tracks and will help get your music out there since it is a subscription based service. With that said though, that means that potentially there is confusion over some material showing up in your profile without you uploading it and other concerns and questions.

This post has been prepared to make you understand the entire situation as a whole.

Source: blog.symphonicdistribution.com

Back in The Dayz intègre NADA 

Chez Nada, nous sommes particulièrement heureux de vous annoncer l’arrivée dans l’équipe de Max Meli et Anthony Consiglio, de Back In The Dayz, agence de productions de concerts, booking, et management.

Back In The Dayz a développé depuis quelques années un impressionnant catalogue HipHop & Electro. Qui compte des pépites comme Guts, La Smala, Hamza, Vald, ou les revenants de Sniper.
Max et Anthony agissent comme bookers, managers d’artistes, et producteurs de concerts et d’événements depuis près de 10 ans. En plus de la prod de concerts, en intégrant Nada, ils amènent également une dimension ‘communication’ très importante.

Source: www.nadabooking.be

Amazon takes on YouTube with new rival Amazon Video Direct 

Amazon is going head-to-head with YouTube, launching a new online video platform which gives content owners a variety of distribution – and payment – options.

Amazon Video Direct (AVD) launches today as an enhancement to Amazon Video – the home of paid-for Netflix rival Amazon Prime Video.

We’re told that customers in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and Japan ‘now have access to new movies, TV shows, docu-series and music videos from content creators’.

However, no recorded music companies have so far been named as official launch partners.

Alarm bells for the music business may already be going off: Amazon has given detail as to how content owners can upload videos onto AVD – but how they take them down in the case of copyright infringement is another matter.

Source: www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

Independent publishers fight against market concentration – and for more streaming cash 

The Independent Music Publishers Forum (IMPF) was officially founded at Midem two years ago, and now counts more than 50 rights-holders as members.

They include Bucks Music Group, Reservoir/Reverb Music, Sugarmusic, Budde Music, SONGS Music Publishing, Wixen Music Publishing, ABKCO, Bicycle Music Company and Downtown Music Publishing.

Pierre Mossiat, CEO at Strictly Confidential and another founder member, Annette Barrett of Reservoir/Reverb tell MBW that IMPF was partly created to ensure the independents had a voice on the board of the ICMP – the global trade body representing music publishers’ interests.

Says Mossiat: “We realised that the reaction to our creation may be: ‘Another trade association?!’ But we had the feeling that a few questions were not being answered for us [at ICMP].

“ICMP is doing important things that we don’t always understand or have input into. As independents, we have to have an eye on regulations, but that’s time-consuming and expensive – and ICMP is a perfect tool to manage it, so long as it’s not only in major interests.”

Source: www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

Fédération DeConcert! | Compilation de 16 artistes soutenus

DE CONCERT!, fédération internationale regroupant 30 festivals en France, Suisse, Belgique, Allemagne, Danemark, Hongrie, Islande et Canada vous propose une sélection de jeunes artistes talentueux à suivre de près en 2016. Ces festivals ont échangé leurs derniers coups de cœur musicaux, tous portés par l’envie de les partager avec leur public.

Voici les 16 artistes que vous pourrez découvrir sur scène lors des différents festivals de la fédération DeConcert! Hot Tracks for Hot Spots !

Source: deconcert.org

First cultural mobility experiences for European artists and cultural professionals in China

On the Move, the cultural mobility information network, launches its new online publication First cultural mobility experiences for European artists and cultural professionals in China: a repertory of web-links, developed to help artists and cultural players prepare their first travel(s) to China – and make the most out of it.

Source: on-the-move.org

 Réserve déboussolée – Cultivez l’indépendance – projet présenté lors des Nuits Botanique

Avec Réserve déboussolée, géolocalisez-vous et découvrez toute la scène culturelle locale et indépendante qui vous entoure.

Playlists, disquaires, labels, libraires, expos, concerts, médiathèques, parcours sonore, boutiques, patrimoine historique, escapades insolites, etc. : Réserve déboussolée révèle les trésors parfois insoupçonnés de votre ville et vous tient informé des événements et sorties culturelles en temps réels.

Un guide multimédia et indépendant pour résidents et touristes curieux qui, tout en étant gratuit, propose également un modèle de rémunération plus équitable aux artistes diffusés !

Source: www.facebook.com