“Alexa, where are my Ticketmaster tickets?” Yesterday, Amazon unveiled a new feature – Song ID. Prime Music and Music Unlimited subscribers in the US can now easily identify a song’s title and artist. Users can simply activate and deactivate the featur…
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Amazon Unveils Song ID, Telling Users What Song is Playing, But Only for US Echo Devices
Amazon has made a brand-new innovative feature – Song ID – available only for Prime Music/Unlimited subscribers. At the Mobile World Congress (MBW) in Barcelona, Universal Music Group (UMG) CEO and Chairman Lucian Grainge shared some good advice to all…
How Smart Speakers Increase The Artist and Fan Divide
"Alexa (Siri, Google) play __________." With tens of millions of song requests being processed daily, what fills that blank matters. "Play That Funky Music" will net you the Wild Cherry hit. Hear that song once and you know the title. But while "Counting Blue Cars" may have been a big…
Hypebot Crashes The Music Biz Weekly Podcast: Streaming, PledgeMusic, Smart Speakers, More
The big three record labels earning $19 million a day from streaming, the ongoing PledgeMusic tragedy, how smart speakers are changing songwriting and the future of podcasting were all part of a wide ranging discussion between Bruce Houghton of Hypebot and the Skyline Artists Agency and Music Biz Weekly co-hosts…
Looks Like Google Home Is Testing Out an Apple Music Integration
During Mobile World Congress 2019, Google announced several new features for its digital assistant. Those new features included Android Messages support, new Google Maps functionality, and bilingual support for the assistant. Next up, it looks like Goo…
Facebook launches Amazon Echo rival, partners with Spotify, Pandora and iHeart
Facebook’s new audio/video communication devices are called the Portal and Portal+
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Google Overtakes Amazon In Smart Speakers
Fresh research has revealed that Google has pulled ahead of Amazon in the smart speaker department, the latest move by the tech giant in its quest to be the best in the biz at tracking users and building speech recognition tools. ________________________________ Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Technology…
Latest Industry: Google vs. Amazon, NZ vs. Viagogo, Cinq, BBC, Spotify, Live Nation, More…
Google creeps up on Amazon in the global smart speaker market. Strategy Analytics has found that Amazon shipped 4.8 million smart speakers in the second quarter of 2018. The company now has a 41% market share. Google shipped 3.2 million in the same p…