TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

His win came when the global appetite for Amapiano, a style of house music that emerged in South Africa , and Afrobeats, a popular music genre that originated from Western Africa , had increased exponentially. It was a much-needed success for the African music scene, and though it didn’t appear so, it was a boost for its tech scene. .

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2021

The new iMac, iPad Pro, and Apple TV 4K are all set to start shipping to early preorder customers on or around May 21st, but now it seems there could be two surprise announcements: a hi-fi streaming tier of Apple Music, and maybe even AirPods 3. The Apple Music part seems extremely likely when you factor in a report from 9to5Google.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Today, TikTok and Universal Music Group (UMG) have announced the formation of what they’re calling an “expanded global alliance.” TikTok users will now be able to incorporate clips from UMG’s full catalog of music, spanning the company’s iconic labels, songwriters and global territories.”. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We last wrote about Breakr — a platform that connects record labels, artists and brands with social media influencers to run mass campaigns in a programmatic way — when it closed a $4.2 In the past two years, Breakr has onboarded over 30,000 influencers and managed more than $3.5 million round in 2021.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Reah Keem is just like you and I — she loves working on music, vacationing abroad, and is pretty bummed out about not being able to visit any cool places right now. LG introduced Reah Keem as a virtual influencer who appeared during its live-streamed CES keynote to unveil the company’s new line of LG CLOi UV-C robots.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Last season , one of the more curious additions to Fortnite was Guggimon, a terrifying-looking rabbit creature that also happened to be a virtual influencer with millions of followers on platforms like Instagram and TikTok.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Like the original She’s All That , the remake will draw on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion , and the subsequent film and musical My Fair Lady that it inspired. He’s All That will flip the script, with Easterling playing a popular influencer who tries to change a nerdy male student into the prom king.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Parents can now influence more of their kids’ music taste through Spotify. The Spotify Kids app gives kids access to child-approved audio content with the goal of gating them into a safe place to click around and access music and stories. Image: Spotify.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Similar to TikTok, Shorts will let people make 15-second videos which can be set to music. Music is available via an “in-product music picker feature,” a YouTube spokesperson told The Verge. But, arguably, Instagram was never a video entertainment-first platform; YouTube is.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

” Those who use affiliate or influencer marketing to spread the word about their products; those who leverage their personalities or content to do that; and those platforms that house the content can all use Impact to engage with each other, and run their business operations within it. billion valuation.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

Pokémon Go Fest is just a few weeks away, and this year, the annual event is also going to be a music festival, developer Niantic announced on Thursday. I have a hunch it could be a certain music-themed pokémon.). This year, in honor of Pokémon Go’s fifth anniversary, Niantic has also lowered the price of admission from $14.99

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The Verge

JULY 20, 2020

And Logic, better known offstage as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, isn’t a stranger to the churn of comments that power social media; it’s how he made his name, he tells me, reaching people where they were by putting out his music for free online. “I The term “influencer,” as you may recall, is platform-neutral.) Remember Men In Black ?

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

The startup’s marketplace, Ayokenlabs , will feature digital collectibles from musicians, sports brands and influencers from all over the world. NFT holders will also get other perks like access to unreleased music and exclusive live events by the creatives. Ayoken, an NFT marketplace for creatives, has raised $1.4

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Digital Trends

JUNE 7, 2022

Benediction director Terence Davies reveals the films that influenced his new post-war drama and explains why music and movies have so much in common.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Uptown Funk was blaring on digital music outlets, Snapchat filters were laid over every selfie, and hoverboards were all the rage. Brand building efforts, technology solutionsincluding AIand targeted campaigns must work in tandem to influence growth. Think back to the shifting tech landscape of 2015.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2020

Given that all of Snapchat’s influencer partners for this rollout are prominent TikTok dancers, the company is tacitly saying it wants people to dance with the lenses and use them in challenges, which are most popular on TikTok. Snap says it plans to allow English-speaking users to record with music starting this fall.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Universal Music Group is modifying its contracts to extend the period in which an artist can rerecord their music, The Wall Street Journal reported. The move comes after the success of Taylor Swift’s rerecorded albums and the music label’s effort to gain more rights from artists who decide to rerecord their work.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Customers can also play music via a Bluetooth connection, which is sure to be a popular feature with Unagi’s various celebrity and influencer customers , like Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper, Khalid, Halsey, Steve Aoki, and Billie Eilish. “Be Be the Forrest Gump of scooters,” he said, “and ride ride across America.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Komi , a personalized website page builder tool for influencers and celebrities to create and customize a landing page to promote their projects, today closed a $5 million seed round led by Contour Venture Partners. Crosbie told TechCrunch that both larger and smaller influencers are encouraged to use Komi.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 29, 2013

In just a few months, Twitter went public , Google Glass showed up on our train route to work, and YouTube hosted ‘live’ music video awards. John Hall , Influence & Co. . 2013 has been quite a year for the startup community and social and technology-related businesses in particular. Here’s what they had to say: 1. Google+ Expert.

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2021

Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN. NMAAM is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. Today’s Q&A is with H.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The band also got a new member through an elaborate reveal involving a virtual influencer. The event is known for its striking opening ceremonies, which typically revolve around music; the 2018 K-pop event was followed by a holographic hip-hop concert last year.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

If you’re pining for the innocent days of 2017, when the biggest screw-up was the music festival meltdown known as Fyre Festival, you’re in luck: you can now own a piece of merch from the disaster. Fyre Festival was supposed to be a “once-in-a-lifetime” luxury musical festival in the Bahamas that took place in April and May 2017.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Alex Wilhelm: Discz Music. Details: A mobile application aimed at the youth market that combines music with social features. The company reports that its application has reached the top 10 slots in the App Store’s music category. Social platforms need a music strategy. It could use a social strategy, yeah?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Spotify’s going to test letting artists and labels influence more of what its algorithm promotes. The company announced today a new test for all artists and labels on the platform where they can decide to promote any music that’s important to them.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Brands partnering with celebrities, influencers and advocates to reach a larger and more relevant audience is not a new approach to marketing. Think of these YouTube influencers as the Mickey Mouse Club of our generation, except with 10 times the reach. .

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The Ossoff campaign TikTok (@jon) account will use video and music trends on the popular platform to highlight the candidate’s policy positions and share voting information for voters in Georgia, according to the campaign. The Snapchat account will be used to share Ossoff’s life on the campaign trail as the special election season progresses.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The theme for this year centered around music. Let’s take a deep dive into the powerful data music stories our finalists told. Music Discoveries. His analysis includes nearly 1,400 top artists from 20 countries and explores music discovery behaviors across the globe by artist type. Influence of Tech on Music.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The theme for this year centered around music. Let’s take a deep dive into the powerful data music stories our finalists told. Music Discoveries. His analysis includes nearly 1,400 top artists from 20 countries and explores music discovery behaviors across the globe by artist type. Influence of Tech on Music.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I was reminded of these two design principles when exploring the Johnny Cash Project , a crowd-created music video for a posthumous recording of Cash singing "Ain't No Grave." The collective outcome (a cool music video) is clear. He said: "Let's make a dynamic music video--and let's set up a tool so fans can help us do it."

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Female Founders Fund, HYBE, Sony Music, Warner Music, Concord Music, Quality Control, Right Hand Management, Techstars Music and Betaworks all participated in the round. Horton explained to TechCrunch that one tactic for the company is to engage with the top influencers for each respective fandom.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

It’s a fundamental rule of the road: driver picks the music. Starting today, up to six people in the car can all control music at the same time , starting with the Android Automotive-powered Polestar 2. We all know that sometimes the driver doesn’t have the best taste in music and my family tends to agree. Polestar / Beadyeye.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Vybe Together’s website also advertised a “Vybe House” for the 2021 Zamna Festival music event in Tulum, Mexico. We have rented the villa to some influencers,” said the owner, who had “no idea” if any renters were linked to the app. The house’s pictures correspond to an Airbnb listing for a rental called the Casa Remy Villa.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

James Young, writing on Convio’s newish blog, Connection Cafe , talks about how to find, and create, influencers. What are “influencers?&# SOX First, which is a new blog to me, and focuses on Sarbanes-Oxely compliance, asks whether nonprofits hold the ethical high ground. Their answer: they may well be losing ground.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Best Picture — Musical/Comedy. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Hamilton Music Palm Springs The Prom. Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical/Comedy. Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Kate Hudson, Music Michelle Pfeiffer, French Exit Rosamund Pike, I Care A Lot Anya Taylor-Joy, Emma. Best Motion Picture — Drama.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

They connected Founders Fund to Spotify, which catalyzed the music service’s North American launch. “We’re more influenced by Silicon Valley than traditional developers or the ski industry in general, so we’d like to incorporate some of that disruptive ethos into Powder Mountain,” Walker says.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 20, 2024

However, consider using a Creator Account for individuals in your organization, like influencers or spokespersons. For instance, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) effectively uses both its main Instagram account and the personal accounts of its ambassadors and influencers to reach broader audiences.

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