Tag: apps

Place your bets: are there now more ‘curators’ working in the music streaming industry than there are in the world of museums and art galleries?

British band The Wombats got into sustainable NFTs earlier this year, but their latest marketing initiative is a mobile game.

Snapchat has mobile games; Netflix has mobile games; now TikTok appears to have mobile gaming ambitions too.

Latvia’s exit at the semi-final stage means this year’s Eurovision Song Contest final won’t be enlivened by the cunnilingus-meets-climate-activism crossover nobody saw coming in 2022.

In 2019, jazz musician Mike Casey talked to Music Ally about how he’d grown his audience through streaming playlists.

Artist apps are still a thing: witness Coldplay's new Android and iOS app, released for the band's 'Music of the Spheres' tour.

If you'd told us that Bandcamp's acquisition by Epic Games would lead to an argument with a tech giant, our money would have been on Apple.

Veeps is making a play for regular viewers with the launch of apps for iOS and Android smartphones as well as Apple TV and Roku for bigger screens.

Apple continues to fight back against accusations that it gives its own services an advantage over third-party rivals on its App Store.

Yousician, one of the most established music-education services, charges subscriptions for its app teaching people how to play instruments and sing.

There are also some interesting quarterly charts of the top music and audio apps ranked by downloads.

Artists taking stakes in digital music services isn’t a new trend. Justin Bieber and Diddy were among the minority shareholders in Spotify in its early years too.