Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Theres no such thing as one best music streaming service. Pretty much none of them are paying artists properly, yet nearly all of them are steadily raising prices. Below, weve highlighted the best music streaming services on the whole and broken down where they excel and fall short.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The Screen Actors Guild Awards, hosted by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), is set to take place tonight (Sunday, February 23) at 8 p.m. Beyond the glamour and spectacle, award shows create and drive a massive ecosystem of professionals and services. Tune into Netflix at 8 p.m.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 19, 2025

The company has stepped up efforts to stand out in a competitive streaming landscape with both users and artists. So far Deezer is also the only music streaming service to sign the Statement on AI Training that promises not to allow its music data to train AI models.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2022

Strategic branding is critical for your nonprofit to build trust among your supporters and get the word out about your services. This is often achieved by using a collection of illustrations created by the same artist. What Are Brand Guidelines? Brand guidelines expand on the decisions you have made with the design of your logo.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

And most importantly, it’s meant to make artists’ jobs easier, not replace them outright. “The goal all along was to make a tool for artists, to empower them. An artist making a model and textures and so on is only the very first step. “We want artists to create their own.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Creative platform EVEN , which allows artists to sell music directly to fans, said it has closed a $2.2 The platform positions itself as the first stop before artists release music on streaming platforms. One of the biggest issues is that Black and brown artists are often not credited properly as the source for many mainstream trends.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If you purchased a Peloton bike or treadmill to exercise with during the pandemic, you’ll soon have a new collection of classes to take from a familiar artist. Peloton says that Beyoncé is one of the most requested artists for its playlists.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

Apple Music’s payment rate for artists and labels is fundamentally a penny per stream, according to a letter from the company posted on its artist dashboard and first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. Both of these numbers are growing incredibly quickly every year.

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TechSpot

MARCH 4, 2021

Existing artist shareholders will maintain their holdings and be the remaining stakeholders. Per the terms of the deal, Square will pay $297 million in cash and stock in exchange for a "significant" majority ownership stake.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

At its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced a set of cloud services designed to help businesses build and run generative AI models trained on custom data and created for “domain-specific tasks,” like writing ad copy. As of today, the NeMo generative AI cloud service is in early access.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The music service once co-owned by Jay Z has released its first free streaming subscription tier, which will offer full access to the service's music catalog.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

“With 96 GB of VRAM, the new server-edition GPUs can run complex neural rendering models within OctaneRender’s GPU path-tracer, enabling artists to tap into incredible new features and tools that blend the precision of traditional CGI augmented with frontier generative AI technology.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Independent music distribution service DistroKid announced its recent acquisition of Bandzoogle, the website builder designed for musicians. The financial details of the transaction weren’t publicly disclosed.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Bandcamp launched a ticketed live stream service for virtual concerts yesterday called Bandcamp Live. The streaming service lets artists make money from live performances online, and may help some of the independent musicians who favor Bandcamp recoup money lost in canceled tours. Image: Bandcamp.

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TechSpot

MAY 20, 2022

This week, Bandcamp co-founder and CEO Ethan Diamond said Google has agreed to leave the music service's Android app alone pending the court case between it and Epic Games, which recently acquired Bandcamp. Until then, Bandcamp will pay artists its regular rate, which is famously higher than Spotify's.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

That included logging into pages with analytics for artist management companies, getting a window into CrowdSurge’s operations. Ticketmaster gathered a spreadsheet of every ticketing page it could find, letting it identify artists who were using the service and “dissuade” them from doing so.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The service allows users to create, mint, market and sell NFTs. Curio launched in 2020 and dropped its first NFTs in February 2021. To date, Curio has released more than 75,000 NFTs in collaboration with leading music, film and television brands. The company’s co-founder and co-FEO, Ben Arnon, previously worked at UMG.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Crucially, Spotify announced that 7,500 musicians are making at least $100,000 per year through its platform, which isn’t much considering the service is available in 93 markets. If anything, they demonstrated how far Spotify has yet to go. That just wasn’t the case. That turned out to be a very good amount of people.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The singer made his internet-hating comments to the Coda Collection, which, somewhat ironically, is a video streaming service available on Amazon featuring music concerts, documentaries, and more from artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and the Rolling Stones, the latter of which Daltrey referred to as a "Mediocre Pub.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Niio , a Tel Aviv-based digital art platform featuring work ranging from contemporary artists and galleries through to NFTs, announced today it has closed $15 million Series A funding in the wake of a strategic partnership with Samsung Displays, announced last week. The NFT market is just getting started, but where is it headed? .”

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Square, a financial services company co-founded by now-former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is changing its name to Block, the company announced Wednesday. Block is an overarching ecosystem of many businesses united by their purpose of economic empowerment, and serves many people—individuals, artists, fans, developers, and sellers.”.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

She commissioned it from an artist for $5,000 and even kept the receipts as proof. It wasn’t until this month that she ran into a problem: the artist, alleging that Melody owed him money, filed a copyright complaint claiming that she didn’t actually own her body — he did.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Come December, the service will shut down completely, after which you won’t be able to transfer your content. Google is making these big moves now that its YouTube Music service is in full swing as its replacement. Additionally, starting later this month Google will no longer accept purchases for music within its Play Store.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. They support artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects (documentary films) that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these documentary projects.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re involved in any type of health or human services, you can offer an expansive range of prevention and early intervention classes. Are you personally actively looking for opportunities to be of greater service? I came up with an idea to mesh my love of weekend crafts fairs and artist open studio visits with my day job.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 20, 2021

Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler and his philanthropic initiative, Janie’s Fund, teamed up with apparel company Citizen-T and artist Brian Fox to develop upcycled designer tees, personally signed by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame singer, to benefit charity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In many cases taking the majority of an artist’s ownership. “I grew curious why artists were unable to resource themselves from their community in an impactful way — but instead, were forced to seek out potentially predatory relationships. Like what the f**k is up with that?” It’s time for an upgrade.

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.orgSource

MARCH 4, 2024

Clowns, acrobats, and trapeze artists entertain. Traditionally,” Sharon observes, “associations have translated value into offering more of the same services. The goal is to identify products and services members can’t live without; then deliver those unique offerings at a price they can live with.

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Association TV

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The best way to gain new members and retain current ones, is to knock down any barriers on their path to enjoying your services. links that direct users to your terms of service. We particularly appreciate search bar suggestions, like how Spotify invites users to search not only a song title but an artist or a podcast too.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2022

Fitness Plus users will be able to learn BTS choreography in the service starting next week. When Apple Fitness Plus launched in 2020, it was not only a way to showcase the new Dance activity on the Apple Watch but also a subtle way to integrate other services like Apple Music. Image: Apple.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Apple is kicking off 2024 with new content for its workout service Fitness+, including a new meditation theme, a yoga program for golfers, artist spotlights with Super Bowl Halftime Show performers and new celebrity guests for its audio walking experience “Time to Walk.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

But co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Benjamin Grubbs (who previously led creator partnerships at YouTube) told me the company is initially focused on “storytellers and artists.” ” Former YouTube exec unveils Next 10 Ventures, a $50M fund to back online creators.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Emergency response services have had a big boost of data thanks to advances in connected technology, with watches that can detect when their wearers are falling down and are experiencing trauma, cars that can pinpoint where their drivers are located and home systems that can transmit important data about fires when you cannot.

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TechSpot

JULY 24, 2023

Spotify said the changes will allow them to keep innovating and delivering value to fans and artists around the world. Notably, it is the first rate hike for Spotify Premium Single users in the US since the service debuted stateside in the summer of 2011. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sona is a new web3 streaming protocol that uses DeFi primitives (decentralized finance basic building blocks) to put the financial power back into artists’ hands with its rewards model, auctions and ad-free streaming. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Many music artists had to cancel or push back their live events during the pandemic. Some artists and music agencies have shifted to virtual or online concerts to compensate for those canceled events. He added that it is currently in talks with potential partners to work with top artists in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The system, which is designed to navigate the complexities of copyright claims while also fairly compensating artists, offers an alternative to existing free music platforms, including YouTube’s own Audio Library and Creative Commons’ legal music for videos, for example. Image Credits: Uppbeat.

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