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Q4 may not be quite as intense a period for many people in the music industry as it used to be in the physical era, given the fact that an album released early in the year (or in Ed Sheeran’s case, early in the previous...

Amazon’s drive to get its Alexa voice-assistant onto as many devices as possible, while improving its features, continues. The company has opened up its ‘mobile accessory kit’ for Alexa, which will help Bluetooth devices...

Spotify’s Release Radar and Apple Music’s New Music Mix are high in the minds of music marketers in 2018. They’re figuring out what ‘signals’ (for example: following an artist’s profile and saving their music...

Alexa Accelerator is Amazon’s investment fund for startups working with voice technology and smart speakers. Its latest three investments include two companies related to our industry: Bamboo Learning and Endel. Bamboo...

Ha! Amazon saw your media speculation about eight new Alexa devices launching before Christmas, and raised you.

We reported earlier this week on the rumours of eight new Alexa-powered Amazon devices coming before the end of 2018, including a microwave oven, an amp, a receiver, a subwoofer and an in-car gadget.

2018 has seen an explosion in new devices NOT made by Amazon or Google, but which use those companies' voice assistants - Alexa and Google Assistant respectively.

Amazon’s latest feature for its Alexa voice assistant focuses on live music. Alexa can now answer questions about upcoming concerts and music venues, globally.

If you’re thinking about the future of smart speakers and voice assistants, it’s not just about the devices from the companies that make those assistants.

Smart speakers are no longer just about Amazon Echo vs Google Home vs Apple HomePod. Partly because Chinese manufacturers are now fully at the party, but also because other kinds of audio-hardware firms are rolling out their...

Amazon’s music boss Steve Boom has been talking about the company’s growth in music-streaming, amid its new marketing campaign that focuses on ‘voice’ – both in singing and Alexa voice-control terms.

Bose is one of the audio-hardware firms that has been most disrupted by the emergence of smart speakers: it had a big share in the Bluetooth speakers market as it was, but hasn’t offered competition for Amazon’s Echo,...