4 Ways AI Startups Can Target the Music Industry
Kelli Richards
October 30, 2017
October 30, 2017,
Inc.
Startups have a lot of room to disrupt the music industry with AI and voice recognition.
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Gathering of the Tribe: A Reunion of the Visionaries Who Launched the Digital Music Revolution
Kelli Richards
August 3, 2017
Last week I was honored to join an invite-only gathering of my peers at the City Vineyard in NYC (owned and run by one of my colleagues, Michael Dorf and one of the hosts of this reunion event).
The gathering was meant to honor us crazy visionaries who saw the future of the convergence of music and tech over 20 years ago…and who lived in a crystal ball waiting for the world to catch up with our visions for what would be possible. In my case the future started at the beginning of 1988 when I was part of a small team who birthed the music and entertainment focus at Apple. …
Beatles Fans Rejoice — Plenty of Reasons to Celebrate!
Kelli Richards
June 7, 2017
Many people in my world know that the Beatles are far and away my favorite group of all time; in fact, I’m known as a “Beatle-ologist” given my vast knowledge of far too much trivia having to do with the band. Like so many others, they inspired me to pursue my career in music from a very young age (I can recall being very deliberate about that choice as early as when I was 8 years old as a direct result of the Beatles).
The Beatles have never really gone away (well their music hasn’t anyway), and to that end Beatle fans have a couple of reasons to celebrate of late including the following: …
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Why AI and VR Startups Should Be Targeting the Music Industry
Kelli Richards
April 3, 2017
April 3, 2017,
Inc.
Despite meteoric growth, one industry has been curiously left out of most VR/AI discussions: music.
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The Launch of Amazon Music Unlimited
Kelli Richards
October 25, 2016
This past week saw the launch of Amazon’s foray into an unlimited music streaming service to rival Apple Music and Spotify — it’s called “Amazon Music Unlimited” (AMU). It’s designed to add more value to Echo users offering “tens of millions of songs and thousands of hand-curated playlists and personalized stations” according to Amazon. It’s effectively an upgrade from Amazon’s Prime Music offering. Prime is now the basic service, Unlimited is the full one. This is a really strategic move for Amazon …
4 Creative Secrets I Learned From Influential Music Artists
Kelli Richards
September 26, 2016
September 26, 2016,
The Huffington Post
Why do we idolize and celebrate famous musicians? It’s simple: They’ve achieved greatness, a certain “glow” we wish we had.
Read the entire article here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/4-creative-secrets-i-learned-from-influential-music_b_57e9733ce4b00267764fcaba
Taylor Swift and Other Top Artists Stand United Against DMCA & YouTube
Kelli Richards
July 12, 2016
In the past couple of months things have been getting more heated as a coalition of over 180 top musicians have aligned to complain about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The 1998 law governs the way big internet companies can use material uploaded by their users. As technology has progressed over the past two decades, the artists’ stance is that their royalties have been diminishing relative to the many new devices and services that have sprung up in that timeframe. And in tandem as they’re making their voices heard about concerns suggesting that the DMCA is broken in today’s terms, they’re taking aim squarely at YouTube as a primary example of how this structure no longer works for artists (if it ever did). …
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Spotify Could Go Away Overnight And No One Would Care
Kelli Richards
November 9, 2015
November 9, 2015,
Hypebot.com
Although Spotify was able to get its foot in the door early, the presence of companies like Apple Music, Amazon Prime, and others means that the historically un-profitable streaming service either needs to find away to differentiate itself from the competition or risk crashing and burning.
Read the entire article here: http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015/11/spotify-could-go-away-overnight-and-no-one-would-care-.html?curator=MusicREDEF
Will Tidal Make Waves In The Music Industry Or Get Washed Out?
Kelli Richards
May 25, 2015
May 25, 2015
Tech Crunch
In late March, when a group of A-list musicians gathered in Manhattan to show support for Jay Z’s new music streaming service, Tidal, expectations were sky-high.
Read the entire article here: https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/25/will-tidal-make-waves-in-the-music-industry-or-get-washed-out/
Streaming and Beyond: Apple Will Lead the Way to the Next Music Experience
Kelli Richards
April 6, 2015
April 6, 2015
The Huffington Post
You could buy the physical album, or you could spend an afternoon waiting for the song to come on the radio so you could record it on a cassette tape in your boom box.
Read the entire article here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/streaming-and-beyond-appl_b_6996898
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