This week’s tales embrace:
- Bandcamp acquisition and layoffs
- Paid TikTok
- Amazon AMP closure
- and extra
Bandcamp offered once more.
Simply 18 months after they bought it, Epic Video games offered Bandcamp and almost half of Bandcamp’s workers have been laid off.
The brand new homeowners recommend they’ll maintain a lot of Bandcamp’s common options, however should you’re involved, it’s a very good time to remind you that may run your personal retailer on-line and scale back the charges you’re paying to promote your personal merch.
Paid TikTok?
One thing fascinating was found in a line of TikTok’s code, and TikTok has confirmed: they’re certainly testing a paid, ad-free model of their service, rumored to be 4.99/month. This check is at present working in a single English-speaking market exterior the US.
Goodbye Amazon AMP
Amazon shut down its AMP radio service, and it follows Spotify Stay as an interactive audio function that has been discontinued in 2023.
Spotify playlists utilizing your voice memos?
Perhaps arising from the ashes of Spotify Stay, a brand new patent software suggests Spotify is engaged on a mixtape generator that may pull audio out of your voice memos so you can also make an old-school mixtape the place you may speak over the music so as to add your personal perspective.
U2’s Vegas residency at Sphere
Lastly, If you wish to know if the brand new venue Sphere is as bizarre because it appears, cultural critic Steven Hyden went to see U2, and hilariously wrote all about his considerably adoring view from the final admission part of Vegas’ latest house of spectacle, and the TLDR is: It’s fairly mind-blowing, however perhaps in a dystopian manner.
The One-Minute Music Information Evaluate (10/13/23)
