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 staff have been laid off.
The brand new house owners recommend they’ll hold a lot of Bandcamp’s widespread options, however for those who’re involved, it’s an excellent 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 take a look at is presently working in a single English-speaking market exterior the US.
Goodbye Amazon AMP
Amazon shut down its AMP radio service, and it follows Spotify Dwell as an interactive audio characteristic that has been discontinued in 2023.
Spotify playlists utilizing your voice memos?
Possibly arising from the ashes of Spotify Dwell, a brand new patent utility suggests Spotify is engaged on a mixtape generator that may pull audio out of your voice memos so you may make an old-school mixtape the place you may discuss 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 dwelling 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)
