Tag: wellbeing

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Research firms highlight growth in wellness and fitness apps

Sensor Tower and App Annie are the two most high-profile research firms tracking the apps market. By a quirk of fate, both published some new stats yesterday around wellness and fitness apps – a current area of hot interest...
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Help Musicians warns of a ‘hidden mental health crisis’

UK-based charity Help Musicians has published its latest survey findings, and they are bleak indeed. The charity canvassed more than 700 musicians in the UK about their mental health, and found 87% saying it had deteriorated...
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Startup Sona launches ‘music therapy’ app for stress relief

If you want our tip for making life instantly 78% less stressful, mute the words ‘Harry’, ‘Meghan’ and ‘Piers Morgan’ on all your social apps. But if that fails, perhaps a new app called Sona is...
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Sandbox Issue 270: Always-on my mind: how do artists avoid social media burn-out?

Lead: Always-on my mind: Artists have long accepted – sometimes reluctantly – that their role includes intimate direct-to-fan digital connectivity, usually via Social Media. Grinding out content on multiple platforms,...
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Tonic Rider aims to support musicians with mental health

As the Covid-19 pandemic and its live-music lockdowns in many countries continues, there is still a great deal of concern about the wellbeing of musicians and their teams. But thankfully there are a growing number of support...
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Spotify reveals new ‘Work From Anywhere’ policy for staff

A year in to the Covid-19 global pandemic, and in many countries there are still huge swathes of industries working from home – music included. Both there and in countries where control measures have enabled more of a...
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‘Wellness in Music’ survey explores Covid-19’s impact

We all know that musicians are suffering on several levels from the Covid-19 pandemic, from the loss of a big chunk of their livelihoods in touring (plus the knock-on effects for merchandise sales) to the lockdown strains...
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Smartphone users spent $2bn on health and fitness apps in 2020

App analytics firm App Annie has published its latest data on the growth of health and fitness apps in 2020. It claims that downloads of this category grew from 2bn in 2019 to 2.6bn in 2020, while consumer spending grew...
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Music Biz launches Music Business Mental Health Fund

Yesterday’s fitness and wellbeing track at the NY:LON Connect conference proved to be the ideal opportunity for our partner Music Biz to announce its new Music Business Mental Health Fund. The organisation is working...
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Sound Advice book offers health-focused guidance for artists

There is plenty of training and advice out there around how to build a successful career in music, but not so much around how to do that while staying healthy and happy. A new book called ‘Sound Advice: The Ultimate...
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Hunter Walk’s ‘creator wellness’ ideas apply to music too

Former YouTube executive Hunter Walk, who’s now an investor, has published an interesting article with some suggestions for dealing with ‘creator burnout’ on platforms like Instagram, YouTube and TikTok....
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YogaDownload service adds music from several dance labels

The latest example of a fitness or wellbeing service working directly with the music industry is YogaDownload. It’s an online platform of yoga classes that has been going since 2006, and now it’s broadening its...