Away from mainstream music business attention, the Czech Republic is quietly flourishing
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Music Taxonomy Researcher – AIMS API – Prague/Remote
Who we are: We are developing an AI-powered music similarity search and auto-tagging that music companies, TVs and filmmakers use to find the right music for picture much faster. We have become […]
Sales Operations Manager – AIMS API – Prague or USA/UK/Denmark (Remote)
Full-time Location: Prague (HQ) or West/ East Coast USA, UK, Denmark (remote working). Salary: Competitive, depending on experience and working location. Reporting to: CEO and Head of Business Development Closing date: 3rd […]
Head of Marketing – AIMS API – Prague or USA/UK/Denmark (Remote)
Full or part-time (min 3 days p/w) Location: Prague (HQ) or West/ East Coast USA, UK, Denmark (remote working). Salary: Competitive, depending on experience and working location. Reporting to: CEO and Head of […]
Melodies music service goes live in Czechia and Slovakia
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?
Behind the Campaign :: Bonobo
Samantha Sissons, Maja Matacz, Mita De and Marie Clausen of Ninja Tune explain how a cryptic teaser campaign was used to get things rolling, why they had an intense singles release strategy leading into the album, and more…
Supporting music careers with the Real Living Wage (guest column)
This is a guest column by Angela Linton, Chief Operating Officer at Youth Music, a UK charity that helps give young people a chance to make music, whatever their background […]
Israel’s music expansion opportunities, from wellness to AR
Digital music revenue in Israel will reach $40m in 2020, according to Statista, which also predicts an annual growth rate of 6.6% from 2020 to 2024, with streaming revenue to […]
AIMS API uses AI to mine catalogues of recorded music
The latest startup using artificial intelligence technology to make sense of large music catalogues is AIMS API, from the Czech Republic. The company describes itself as “an API service that searches […]
Sandbox Issue 220: Vault-ing Ambitions
Lead: While Netflix viewers are currently obsessing over Marie Kondo and her rules on de-cluttering the home (instructing viewers to only hold onto the things that “spark joy”), a different approach needs to happen in digital marketing. Rather than binning everything but the essentials, archivists and markets should be retaining as much as they can […]
Brexit and the future of the British music industry (guest column)
This guest column comes from Chrysalis Records co-founder Chris Wright:
“Last month, thousands of people crowded together in the Eventim Apollo theatre in Hammersmith to celebrate some of the best of British music at the Mercury Awards.
The eventual winner, Sampha’s ‘Process’, was hailed as a challenging, individual kind of album and a fitting recipient of the award. It’s just the latest indication that British music, by almost all accounts, is in rude health.
Whitesnake :: digital marketing case study
Allowing fans to reminisce about the band’s history and playing on Whitesnake singer David Coverdale’s links to Deep Purple proved judicious here.