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The number of new podcasts launched in 2022 is way down compared to the number of new podcasts launched in 2020. While this may not be that shocking in a post-Covid lockdown world, the actual numbers are pretty surprising.  According to ListenNotes (a podcast search engine and database), new podcasts fell a whopping 80 percent from 2020

France made waves in the music world this week when it published a report on fake streams. The country’s new government agency, Centre national de la musique (CNM), found more than 1 billion music streams in France alone were fraudulent in 2021.  The report includes data from Spotify, Deezer, and Qobuz. To put it in perspective,

YouTube just began the first steps to allowing more creators access to YouTube Shorts revenue. The platform is also having a major rethink after a major stink about an upcoming policy change it announced last December.  While these may seem like two seemingly different stories, the timing is pretty pertinent. Let’s start with YouTube’s new Shorts

Sessions (also known as Sessions Live) seemingly shut down without informing any of the streamers on the platform. The livestreaming app launched a few years ago with the hopes of competing as a gamified, music-only site.  But near the end of December 2022, streamers suddenly lost access to their accounts. Many began posting on the platform’s

If you’ve picked up a guitar in the last 20 or so years, there’s a good chance you know what Ultimate Guitar is. Sometimes referred to as “UG” or stylized Ultimate-Guitar, the popular website is usually the first stop for anybody looking to learn the chords to their favorite songs. But if you’ve never used their