Tag: analytics

The cycle of music-analytics startups is well-established. They arrive. If they’re good they build an audience. Then someone bigger (Spotify, Apple and Pandora in past examples) snaps them up. Repeat. And while those big...

Twitter has launched a new analytics tool for people and companies posting video on its platform. It’s called Timing is Everything, and we think it could be quite useful for musicians. “Timing is Everything displays...

Streaming service Spotify has analytics for labels and distributors, and separately for artists and their managers. Spot who's missing? Publishers - and by extension, songwriters. At least they were missing until now. This...

Music marketers have a couple of new tools to investigate for Instagram. One is something called ‘promote’ for stories, where Instagram business accounts – a number of artists’ profiles have been converted to...

Music-streaming service Pandora's analytics division Next Big Sound is opening up its data, in an effort to give Pandora metrics a higher profile within the music industry. Until now, artists, managers and labels could...

It’s been a rapid rise to prominence for analytics startup Asaii: we wrote about the company in our Sandbox report in July 2017; it pitched at our NY:LON Connect conference in January 2018 and was then a MidemLab finalists...

Chris Moran is editor of strategic projects at British newspaper the Guardian, and was heavily involved in its development of an in-house analytics tool called Ophan to make sense of its digital traffic.

We know BuzzAngle Music best for its work providing analytics on sales, streaming and radio airplay in the US, as an alternative source to the official Billboard / Nielsen axis of charts clout in that market. So here’s...

British startup Instrumental has been winning plaudits for its data-focused A&R platform in recent months, with a $4m funding round, a feature from the Financial Times, and new clients across the industry. Now it has...

British industry bodies the BPI and ERA have published a new joint report: Magic Numbers: How Can Data and Analytics Really Help the Music Industry?  The report was authored by Music Ally’s Eamonn Forde, and explores...

Tied to the publication of the new report from British industry bodies ERA and BPI (Magic Numbers: How Can Data & Analytics Really Help The Music Industry?) and written by Music Ally, an afternoon of presentations and panel...

We’ve written a lot about analytics dashboards as they relate to recorded music and social networks, but rather less so about how this technology could be used for the live side of our industry. Now two companies in...