One of the most potentially powerful tools to attract artists, musicians and other creators to embrace blockchain-based NFTs as a way of distributing their work is in jeopardy. Royalties are a big draw for artists, who value the ability of most non-fungible tokens to allow the creator...
Pop act The Chainsmokers will release NFTs to give fans a piece of the streaming royalties from the new album “So Far So Good,” Bloomberg wrote Thursday (May 12). There will be 5,000 NFTs and they’ll be given out on May 17 for free. The...
A letter viewed by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) from Apple Music that was sent to creators, publishers and labels said that the tech giant has a penny-per-stream payment structure. The disclosure was sent to artists on Friday (April 16) via Apple Music’s artist dashboard....
Businesses are seriously examining how to retool their accounts payable (AP) strategies as they work to better endure a shifting economic landscape. Thirty-eight percent of companies have already reported adopting AP automations this year — a leap from the 24% who did so in...
August 12, 2020
Businesses are seriously examining how to retool their accounts payable (AP) strategies as they work to better endure a shifting economic landscape. Thirty-eight percent of companies have already reported adopting AP automations this year — a leap from the 24% who did so in 2019 — and organizations may be finding that moving to […]
May 02, 2018
Over the years, computers have put a wildly different spin on how music is produced and distributed. First, they emerged as a tool for mixing and mastering songs in a...
February 09, 2018
It’s hard to separate the headlines, sometimes, beyond the vagaries of huge price swings in bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. It’s hard, sometimes, to find the tunes the market might be fashioning...
February 24, 2017
Music is ancient. Paper checks, only slightly less so. In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Hyperwallet VP of Strategy and Business Development Tomas Likar delved into the reasons that paper might fold...
July 11, 2024
Amazon-owned online audiobook and podcast service Audible is rolling out a new royalty model that will enable creators to monetize more types of content. The model will also allow listeners to access more storytelling, the company said in a Thursday (July 11) blog post on its website. In the new model, titles in all Audible’s membership offerings can […]
May 12, 2022
Pop act The Chainsmokers will release NFTs to give fans a piece of the streaming royalties from the new album “So Far So Good,” Bloomberg wrote Thursday (May 12). There...
April 16, 2021
A letter viewed by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) from Apple Music that was sent to creators, publishers and labels said that the tech giant has a penny-per-stream payment structure....
April 18, 2019
The legal battle between Apple and Qualcomm is over, and UBS is estimating the iPhone maker paid Qualcomm in the neighborhood of between $5 billion and $6 billion to end...
