Zoom isn’t just for video calls with friends, family and work colleagues: it’s being used for a number of online conferences (Music Ally’s included) and even by some artists for […]
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Snoop Dogg gets licensed as a video avatar for Zoomcorder
What’s better than getting out of a Zoom meeting you don’t want to have to sit through? Getting out of a Zoom meeting you don’t want to have to sit […]
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How to successfully livestream a music event
*Learn more about Music and Livestreaming: reaching fans AND making money Another day, another livestream. Well, probably another thousand of them. A year ago, livestreams were defined by their rarity, […]
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Cameo now helps fans buy a Zoom call with celebrities
Cameo is the app that lets people pay for celebrities to record personalised video messages for them (or friends and family as a gift). We wrote about it last June when […]
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Andy and the Odd Socks launch new album with kids’ parties
Andy Day is a popular children’s TV presenter in the UK on TV channel CBeebies, but he’s also been building a music career as the frontman of Andy and the Odd Socks.
The band’s new album comes out today (22 May) through Sony Music’s children’s entertainment label Magic Star, and there’s an inventive marketing campaign around it. Over the next week, there’ll be 250 children’s parties happening in the UK: essentially album playback events with games and (occasionally) a drop-in appearance from Day himself.
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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down made a music video on Zoom
As video-conferencing app Zoom continues to grow massively for business and personal use alike, it was only a matter of time before artists started using it to make music videos. […]
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Zoom has 200m daily users, but CEO promises to fix its problems
A month ago, most of us had never even heard of video-conferencing app Zoom. Now it feels like we’re all on it having work meetings and catching up with friends and family.
The company behind it has revealed that Zoom was being used by 200 million daily users in March – up from an average of just 10 million at the end of December 2019. Amazing growth, but Zoom’s ubiquity has also exposed some problems with the platform and its technology, and a number of articles questioning its security and privacy policies.
Now CEO Eric Yuan has published a blog post about Zoom’s growing pains, which also seeks to reassure users spooked by those reports.