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From The 1975 and Run the Jewels to Dot Blockchain and Dice, tonight’s Music Ally Digital Music Awards showcased some of the most inventive artists, startups and people in the digital world. Our second awards were held...

The first chatbots were developed in the 1960s, long before smartphones and messaging apps had the world’s eyeballs transfixed. This isn’t a new technology, but it’s certainly a hot one in 2016 thanks to Facebook,...

Lead: Documentaries used to be ponderous 90-minute affairs, but now they are part of the “exclusive content” arms race, with digital services bankrolling them and chopping them into web-friendly consumable chunks. We...

Wild World is the second album from British rock band Bastille and was released in September, coming three and a half years after their similarly alliteratively titled debut, Bad Blood. Luke Ferrar, senior digital marketing...

Lead: Record labels and streaming services themselves dominate in what playlists do and how they do it, but publishers are steadily becoming attuned to how they can help both break their new signings and also give a lift...

Music Ally’s latest Sandbox digital music marketing report was published yesterday, and is available to read for all subscribers.

Lead: In this issue of Sandbox and the following one, we look at the ways in which brand partnerships have evolved in response to digital and how they now straddle everything from app sponsorship to VR. In the opening part,...

To promote their new EP, Bastille have created an interactive video.

Bastille are the latest band hoping to drum up anticipation among fans for their album with a pre-release stream on their own website.

Two years ago, numerous labels lined up to put the boot into Spotify for not paying content owners enough – but the ability to build their own app within the streaming service's client player has proved key in luring them...

Vevo has revealed Bastille as the fifth artist to take part in its Lift promotion in the UK.

Email used to be like gold dust – a direct link and marketing channel to fans. The rise of Facebook and Twitter has seriously dented its power of immediacy and the that fact users can give secondary email addresses is negatively...