Tag: analytics

ForTunes is a platform which puts comprehensive analytics and recommendations at the fingertips of creators. Florian Richling, co-founder and CEO, says that he identified the need for his platform over the 20 years he...

Fintech company Square is the new majority owner of Tidal, and its CEO Jack Dorsey (also CEO of Twitter) got together with Jay-Z for a Twitter Spaces discussion of their plans for the music service. Variety has a good...

One helpful way of growing a channel on TikTok is to jump on a trend when it’s still emerging. There are a few ways to stay on top of what’s new: TikTok has the ‘Discover’ tab, industry newsletters highlight hot topics...

Sparkline is a new platform developed by technology consultancy company Decimal, who mainly work with music clients on development projects. Decimal pitches Sparkline as the “missing analytics tool for Spotify” – a...

At last week’s indies session at the UK’s parliamentary inquiry into music streaming, Aim boss Paul Pacifico suggested that major labels buying independent distributors wasn’t necessarily a concern as long...

CrowdTangle, which was bought by Facebook in 2017, is a tool for media publishers and content creators to track how content spreads online, and to see what content their target audience engages with. CrowdTangle is free to...

Analytics for songwriters and publishers were perhaps neglected in the past in favour of dashboards for master recordings, but the industry is catching up now – from the publisher data provided by Spotify to a clutch of...

In February this year, Google's experimental division Area 120 launched something called Demand, in partnership with Pollstar. It was a live-music analytics tool promising "actionable, real-time analytics facilitating...

With so much analytic data for artists and their teams to chew over, their challenge is digesting this data in a way that delivers insight and helps grow an artist’s career. Viberate provides a comprehensive and versatile...

Music marketing platform Linkfire has announced its latest data deal, with YouTube Music. "In addition to seeing how many of your link visitors click through to YouTube and YouTube Music, you’ll be able to see how those...

It's now five and a half years since streaming service Pandora bought music analytics firm Next Big Sound. Since then, it's formed the core of the company's data offering for artists and their teams. Now Pandora is taking...

The 'will streaming kill radio' debate rumbles on, but it certainly hasn't happened yet: radio airplay remains important for many artists, and tracking it globally remains a challenge. We've written about startups like...