The content partnership highlights two interesting details about Spotify’s plans for future growth. First, it’s an indicator that Spotify’s audiobook content goals are aimed at superfans of the music streaming service: 33 1/3 is a series written by and for music obsessives, offering up installments about obscure classics alongside more well-known names like David Bowie, Nirvana, or Radiohead.
Tag: 05.13.18
How Indie Magazines Are Hacking The Publishing Industry
Independent publishing, far from dying, is undergoing a renaissance. These are not the A4-sized, glossy, free-DVD-inside commodities that dominate the newsstand. These are as much objects as magazines, collectible and shareable in the best sense of the word. These are magazines that play with the form, from open binding to multiple paper stocks. Their subject matter is as diverse as their production techniques, from mental health to trans rights, from football to street wear. They are driven by a passion, both for their content, and the printed form, and thanks to technology, they are able to reach audiences around the world. From Twitter to Instagram, from Patreon to Kickstarter, it’s never been easier to build an audience, and sell your creation to them.
Assistant Principal’s Inflammatory Rap Ignites Debate About Free Speech
In a time of heightened anxiety about school shootings, Logic Amen’s after-class rapping, posted on the website Bandcamp.com, has raised questions about the limits of free speech and artistic expression for a public figure whose job is guiding young people – at least among the hundreds of commenters weighing in on social media.
TV Networks Battle For Ad Dollars That Might Have Peaked
Magna Global, the Interpublic Group media-research unit, believes TV’s power to woo new dollars from Madison Avenue has peaked. Magna believes national TV hit a high in 2016 when it captured $43.3 billion dollars from advertisers; it now expects national TV to lure $41 billion in 2018. Meanwhile, it’s calling for digital media this year to capture half of all ad dollars spent – he equivalent of $97 billion spent across search and display; digital video; and social.
What We Know About The State Of Television
As networks unveil their fall lineups this week, here are some lessons from the season just ending that tell us something about the state of TV right now.
British Architect Will Alsop, Creator Of Avant Garde And Modernist Buildings, Has Died At 70
“Alsop, dismissed as a dreamer by some, was eternally optimistic about the potential of architecture. ‘Architects are the only profession that actually deal in joy and delight,’ he had said. ‘All the others deal in doom and gloom.'”
Stop Trying To ‘Protect’ Shakespeare, Chekhov, And Other Dead Playwrights
Lyn Gardner: “What is viewed by some as cultural vandalism is often a lifeline for playwrights, keeping plays that might otherwise slip into obscurity alive. Tastes and styles in theatre change. … Theatre has to move on, or it dies.”
When Should A TV Show Just Let Go?
Some – like Barry and like Big Little Lies would probably be better if they just ended after one season.
Netflix And ‘The Crown’ Didn’t Win Much At The British TV Awards
Despite leading the pack of nominations, Netflix only walked away with one award. The BBC show Peaky Blinders (available on, er, Netflix in the U.S.) took the major drama prize at the BAFTA’s TV awards, and other BBC shows did well too.
As Streaming Services Get More Popular And Appointment Viewing Less So, Where Does The Ad Money Go?
The 18-49-year-old audience range is down 7 percent for broadcast TV stations, and Netflix has poached everyone from Ryan Murphy to Shonda Rhimes, but some estimates say ad spending may actually increase this year. Wait, what?