Ever wonder how big music awards shows affect Spotify listeners? Well, let’s take a fun (totally non-scientific) look at how some artists fared following the most recent GRAMMY Awards. The 65th Annual GRAMMY Awards took place on Sunday, February 5th. For those somehow unfamiliar with the show, it’s the most-watched music awards show in the United

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Here at RootNote, we pride ourselves on providing you with helpful information about the content creator world. But every now and then people actually want to know things about, uh, us! So we’ve put together a fun little YouTube video detailing five questions for RootNote’s core team, co-founder and CEO Jason Burchard, co-founder and CCO Jeremy

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Are you an early creator (or working with early creators)? Well good news! We’ve been hard at work cultivating concise info for early stage creators. In our new Early Creators Recap, we’ll break down a few important things going on in the content world and talk about some potential goals and opportunities.  And pssst, here’s a

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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

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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,

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