Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

The charts of music streaming services pretty much all look the same these days, with familiar names dominating the top spotsexcept on up-and-coming Spotify competitor Audiomack. Vibez is one of many African and Caribbean artists who have found breakout success on the platform. Kendrick Lamar. The current No. The current No.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

But first, it’s a good idea to check out your alternatives. DeviantArt calls itself “the world’s largest art community” with a social network for visual artists of all kinds. It offers visitors a wide range of artist galleries to view, divided into categories such as traditional, animation, and illustrations. Google Photos.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In March 2020, Bandcamp started a promotion where it would forego taking a revenue share from sales artists made on its platform, providing some additional support to performers with suddenly limited opportunities due to the coronavirus pandemic. Photo by Guillaume Payen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

You don’t have to wait for your music streaming service to provide that for you anymore—you can see and learn from your listening data at any point in the year using Tableau. It doesn’t have to end with this year either—you can even look at your lifetime streaming patterns and see how your music taste has evolved. For Spotify.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

You don’t have to wait for your music streaming service to provide that for you anymore—you can see and learn from your listening data at any point in the year using Tableau. It doesn’t have to end with this year either—you can even look at your lifetime streaming patterns and see how your music taste has evolved. For Spotify.

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2022

But the creators of those channels can still use their videos to promote other streams of income, like donation links and merch sales. Channels producing alt-right, alt-lite, and misogynist content were more likely to use alternative monetization methods than their counterparts.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

It can get hard to navigate all of my various streaming services, work apps, chats, and social media using Chrome tabs — and it also puts me at greater risk of getting distracted. We’ve also listed our favorite streaming shows on Disney Plus, Hulu, ESPN Plus , and Netflix ; some great sci-fi books ; and exciting new podcasts.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

It was started in 2003 and is run by Mark Allen and a collective of artists, many of whom have also been applying their talents by performing "interventions" at formal art institutions including LACMA, the Hammer Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Waffle Shop (Pittsburgh, PA). Want some waffles with your art?

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2021

Horacio unsurprisingly pushed back on these comparisons — citing a range of statistics from Spotify’s Loud and Clear website that lays out exactly how and how much it pays artists around the world. What we’re saying is they actually prevent competitors from coming in and offering alternative payment systems, and therefore there is no market.

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2022

It’s an interesting alternative to a flashlight — you can see the whole scene in front of you instead of shining a light in a certain direction. It’s better to think of the Duovox Mate Pro as a portable security camera than an artistic tool. There is also an actual flashlight mounted on the front of the camera, too.).

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

You can also use services like Discord to host a video chat to allow participants to game together, or Twitch to stream games. Live-Streaming. Hosting a live-stream fundraiser is an excellent way to attract, nurture, and convert your audience over the course of a day. Alternatively, you can also pre-record your live-stream.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

buying a majority stake in Jay-Z’s streaming service Tidal. Micah analyzes why this deal took place, what this means for Tidal, and how this may change the way artists are paid for their music. is buying a majority stake in Jay-Z’s streaming service Tidal. Jack Dorsey’s Square, Inc. NFTs, explained.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For nonprofits, crowdfunding is also a new way to reach out to prospective donors and can provide a significant revenue stream along with an opportunity to raise awareness and increase engagement with their cause and programs. Confirm to donors that their donation was received by the designated nonprofit.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Scroll through Devine’s TikTok page and you’ll see a stream of videos that follow the same general pattern. Along with Bunny’s demands for scritches, Devine, an artist and self-identified nonexpert in dog science, fields hundreds of questions from humans every day. The peculiar thing is that Bunny “talks” back.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Virtual: Online auctions are a category in and of themselves, allowing attendees to view items remotely using live streaming or images while they place online bids. Karaoke Karaoke is more than a fun bar night activity—it can be a nonprofit event with multiple revenue streams.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We love the New York Public Library’s Anti-Proms , which provide an alternative, safe space regardless of sexuality, gender identity, and any other reason for NYC teens. Alternatively, participants can all be given a sheet they need to fill in as they go to different tables. Host a Prom for a Purpose. LGBT Pride Month (June, US).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

‘Real people, real voices’ is the slogan Beams has come up with for its app-based alternative to switching on (and dialling around) talk radio. (Or, Like the aural equivalent of a splatter-painting. On the less interesting side there was the obligatory NFT daily news group (18 members).

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The Verge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

It was designed by veteran artist Colie Wertz , who worked on the upcoming Dune , The Mandalorian , and the recent Star Wars movies. The i9 and 32GB of RAM are more than sufficient for running numerous browser tabs, apps, and streaming without any slowdowns or uncomfortable heat. Outside of gaming, performance is just fine.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

The Twitch stream crashed, and people began spamming the chat with “rug,” slang in cryptocurrency for a “rug pull,” or when a project’s owners run away with investor money. When I stepped into the party, the first thing I saw was the proliferation of face paint and rhinestones; there was an artist doing the face paint in another room.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

If you have some talented artists, knitters, jewelry designers, and candle-makers in your youth group, consider hosting a craft sale at your church. To change it to a virtual format, you would announce the winners during a live stream, and then arrange for the winners to get their prizes later. Online or in-person craft sale.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Are you looking for alternative ways to make money? A lot of public funding is actually going to shift that way, which means that many artists and creators and people with projects are going to need additional ways to fund their work. I think that’s just the nature of what’s happening right now.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

While virtual fundraising events were simply a quick alternative, they actually proved to be a convenient and effective way to engage with donors. Pivot this to virtual by having each participant upload a photo or live stream themselves walking their “at-home” runway. Ice cream social – Everyone loves ice cream!

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Art Exhibition You can never go wrong with highlighting local artists. Arts-based nonprofits can employ local artists to teach any number of art forms; environmental nonprofits can teach gardening; food pantries can host cooking classes; the possibilities are endless!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Not everyone comes back to read the evolving comment stream, but the aggregate is always valuable to the next visitor. I think the bathroom wall made this possible by being an alternative for those who wanted to be a little less focused and just have fun with sharpies. It's like following blog comments.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

“Well, thanks to this $20,000, there are 12 local artists who have a place to hang their artwork.” I personally love using bookmark-type magnet postcard-type, I guess, handouts or alternative needs lists. What do you think you might need to track if you’re looking at a new capital campaign or new fundraising streams?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Today let’s talk about another of them: a startup called Royal that hopes to upend the traditional relationship between music labels and artists, with potentially significant implications for the kind of culture that gets created. Occasionally, an alternative artist would strike out on their own and start an independent label.

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The Verge

APRIL 1, 2021

I’d have loved for Sony to round out the streaming options with AirPlay 2, but no such luck. The pitch is that it can feel “as real as if you are there at a live concert or with the artist recording in a studio.” Only a few music streaming services, including Tidal, Deezer, and Nugs.net, support Sony’s 360 Reality Audio at present.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

Earthday.org’s second annual “ Earth Day Live: Restore Our Earth ” online live stream event will be broadcast on April 22nd beginning at noon, parallel to the Biden administration’s global climate summit (see below). You’ll be able to watch via a live stream link which will be available closer to the date of the event. Image: ACLS.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Say hi to shroo-meat : Fable Food lands Series A for its mushroom-based meat alternatives, Catherine reports. The NFT war rages on : Connie reports that, in a trademark battle between an NFT artist and a big brand, Hermès, the artist just lost. Sling TV now has its own free ad-supported streaming service , Lauren reports.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Creative Juice secured this $50 million pool from an alternative lender, HCGFunds, so if the startup doesn’t fund creators who won’t be able to turn a profit and then some, then Creative Juice is screwed, too. But there’s always the risk that something goes wrong, and an independent artist gets caught in a contractual bind.

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

Take streaming: Spotify came to the US in 2011, years before Netflix released House of Cards , and now Apple TV Plus just had a movie that won the Oscar for Best Picture. The 2010s are when I started getting into alternative investments as well. You probably know better than me how much we make on a stream. Since 1996?

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Meanwhile, Apple offers a mediocre Spotify alternative, Apple Music, which it advertises throughout the operating system. Among other things, it has pushed Spotify to buy up the crown jewels of American podcasting , to reduce its head-to-head competition with Apple over music streaming.). Manish Singh and Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch ).

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Airbnb’s model of turning all hosts into profit-seeking microentrepreneurs of short-term rentals has also been found to reduce the stock of affordable housing in communities, undermine local community rhythms with streams of short-term renters, and result in reduced local tax revenues from the hospitality sector. (In In many U.S.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 15, 2025

Anthony and Joe Russo's new sci-fi adventure film, The Electric State , is adapted from the graphic novel by Swedish artist/designer SimonStlenhag. Like much of work, it's set in a dystopian, ravaged landscape: a reimagined America in an alternate 1990s where a war between robots and humans has devastated the country.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

So in other words, this was an alternative route to become a modern woman." By the 1890s, the author says, Carr was not only an artist's model but was suspected of crimes ranging from pickpocketing to fencing stolen goods to child kidnapping (really). A Thousand Blows is now streaming on Disney+ and Hulu.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You can also join us on our live [00:01:00] stream on Thursday mornings, typically around 11 a. Um, and I was able to see this set up because this was not a live streamed event. And maybe you saw, you know, social media influencers live streamed it perhaps. So, yeah, I think it's, it's good that there are alternatives.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

There are other things to like here — at least as alternatives to the status quo. reports that the talk began live-streaming on YouTube on Wednesday night but was taken down approximately 23 minutes in after Khaled began discussing the right of occupied peoples to fight their occupiers “by any means possible, including weapons.”

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