Tag: monetisation

Are your tweets – or perhaps more relevantly, those of your artists – worth paying for? Soon you might be able to find out. Twitter has announced plans for a feature called ‘Super Follows’, which will enable...

Instagram is one of the best platforms for quickly drawing an audience for an artist’s livestream, if they have a healthy following on the app. However, when it comes to those artists making money from their broadcasts,...

Lead: Music is critical to YouTube while the music industry (beyond the politics of the value gap debate) is hugely reliant on the platform. But so too are other content types. We look at the biggest channels on YouTube generally...

We haven’t written about this much, because musicians couldn’t use it, but Facebook has had its own livestream monetisation system of ‘stars’ running for a while now. It’s akin to Twitch’s bits and cheers and...

SoundCloud has thrown the doors open wide to its SoundCloud Premier program, which enables independent artists to make money from streams of their tracks on its service. Any SoundCloud Pro and Pro Unlimited creators –...

Fresh from reaching the milestone of 100m downloads and signing its first licensing deal with Warner Music, social app Musical.ly is making some changes to the way it works. Yesterday, the company pushed an update live for...

Live-streaming video app Live.ly has now been downloaded more than 2m times on iOS since its launch a few weeks ago. Launched by lip-dub startup Musical.ly, the Periscope and YouNow rival has already attracted musician Jason...

Amid mounting criticism of SoundCloud and its attempts to swing into monetisation and licensing, the deal struck last week with Merlin, representing a multitude of independent labels, was hugely significant. Here was a significant...

Musician Bjorn Lynne is getting some headlines for a trenchant attack on Universal Music Group, after it claimed one of his tracks – ‘Kingdom of the Persians’ – on YouTube and started monetising it. Why? Lynne claims...

It’s becoming a standard feature for digital music distributors to add ‘YouTube monetisation’ to their arsenal of features. TuneCore is the latest, branding its feature YouTube Money. It gets artists to...

DoclerMusic is the latest service to enter the – already busy and very niche – online musical tuition market. It’s a freemium model, with basic lessons free but users are encouraged to leave tips and pay for private...

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the president of a company whose business is YouTube monetisation is impressed by Google’s video service. Still, at a time when friction between YouTube and the music industry...