Sandbox Issue 224: Up Hit Creek. THE DRY STREAMS PARADOX
March 20, 2019
Lead: The Dry Streams Paradox is when there is a huge gap between the number of streams an act gets and the number of fans they have or can reach. Just because someone plays one of your songs, it does not follow that they...
Lead: the days of throwing bales of cash at a mega-influencer to get a mention in one of their Instagram posts are thankfully in sharp decline (with the disastrous Fyre Festival accelerating this trend). But what is taking...
Sandbox Issue 222: SYNC IN. Music Synchronisation Gets Smarter
February 20, 2019
Lead: as synchronisation grows in importance, a new wave of tools is emerging to make that whole process work seamlessly and smarter, covering both micro-licensing and pitch management. We look at the key players here, what...
Lead: Smoke and mirrors have always been part of music, but when it comes to data, truth is starting to play second fiddle to hype. The nefarious and ruthless are finding ways to “massage” social media and streaming numbers...
Sandbox Issue 220: Vault-ing Ambitions
January 28, 2019
Lead: While Netflix viewers are currently obsessing over Marie Kondo and her rules on de-cluttering the home (instructing viewers to only hold onto the things that “spark joy”), a different approach needs to happen in...
Sandbox Issue 219: The Tools and Trends That Will Shape 2019
January 10, 2019
Lead: A new year and a new slate. To kick off the year, we speak to marketers around the business and around the world about what tools they think will be indispensable and what trends they believe will shape 2019. From AR...
Sandbox Issue 218: 2018’s Best Music Marketing Campaigns
December 13, 2018
Welcome to our bumper Sandbox End of Year Campaign Special. One of the biggest – but undoubtedly one of the best – jobs for Sandbox every year is to go through the staggering number of entries for our end-of-year overview...
Lead: Artists have had to adapt to streaming microroyalties being minuscule – but equally they have had to grapple with organic reach on Facebook now nudging close to 0%. They can, of course, spend their way out of it;...
Sandbox Issue 216: Tuning In. Connected TV Marketing in Focus
November 14, 2018
Lead: Music on TV increasingly feels like a relic of the past. Only a handful of shows have any kind of musical guests today and even MTV stopped having promo videos as its main focus years ago. But marketing music on TV...
Sandbox Issue 215: ‘Boxing Clever. Sandbox Summit Special Issue
November 5, 2018
In a break with tradition, this issue of Sandbox is a wrap up of our recent Sandbox Summit in London. Inside, we have reports from every panel, every keynote and every presentation – going into detail on what was covered...
Lead: In the good old days, you could just employ a plugger to get your songs played on radio (or, if you had deep pockets and shallow morals, you could engage in some light payola). Today what “radio” actually is has...
Lead: what exactly is a single in 2018? When any song can technically take on a life of its own now, there is a dizzying diversification in what could count as a single. We work through the main 14 (14!) types of “single”...
