Tag: advertising

Spotify launched its 'On Repeat' algo-personalised playlist in September 2019 alongside 'Repeat Rewind'. Both were designed to serve up tracks that individual listeners had played frequently – in the last month and earlier...

One particular hip-hop video may be giving YouTube some internal ructions (see earlier story) but the service is keen to talk up the wider importance of the genre – particularly for advertisers. “Of the top three...

Marquee is Spotify’s marketing tool for promoting an artist’s new album to people who’ve listened to them – the full-screen pop-ups that appear over its mobile homescreen. Now Spotify is beta testing...

Google and YouTube’s parent company Alphabet published its latest financial numbers yesterday, including advertising revenue figures for YouTube. They show a big bounce-back from the initial hit caused by the Covid-19...

Encrypted messaging app Telegram has nearly 500m users, but it needs to start making money. Now the company has revealed part of its plans: advertising. Founder Pavel Durov announced that the ads will NOT appear in people’s...

In mid-2018, YouTube said that more than one billion people visited it every month to consume music. Two and a half years later, that total has doubled to more than two billion. The new milestone has been announced this...

Nick Edwards and Joshua Jankowski built Feed as a tool that automates the advertising of organic content on Facebook and Instagram to build an artist’s audience, having artists with smaller budgets and no dedicated digital...

Deviate Digital are seeking a PPC & Social Media Advertising Specialist to join their growing team based at Tileyard Studios in Kings Cross, London.  Deviate Digital was founded by Sammy Andrews in 2017 and has been...

In early 2019 Spotify opened up its flagship algo-personalised playlist, Discover Weekly, to brand sponsorships. However, so far the option for advertisers to sponsor the playlist has only been tested in North America and...

We last wrote about digital marketing firm Beatchain in June, when it launched a smart-links feature called ‘hypelinks’ aimed at independent artists and labels. Now it’s got another new tool for its clients...

Is there more money to be squeezed out of the ad-supported music market? Google hopes so. But for once, we're not talking about YouTube in this context. Google's advertising business is also putting some more effort into...

Advertising industry body the IAB has published its latest figures on the podcast ads market in the US. "With an expected growth rate of 14.7%, US podcast advertising revenues are nearing the $1bn mark," it claimed. Are...