HeyJaredNetwork Notes
A newsletter about the music industry, technology, marketing, and the intersection of all three, brought to you by the strategic marketing agency Motive Unknown.
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🔵 Universal Music vs Distrokid: beware the hidden agenda (opens the original)
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When reading about Universal Music’s lawsuit against DistroKid over the weekend, a saying came to mind that I was once told by a TV producer when touring a studio as a schoolkid: “The camera never lies… but it never tells the truth either.” This is a sentiment that floats to mind whenever I read about something Universal is up to. On the face of it, the major label’s lawsuit has much merit. It is, after all, attempting to stem the flow of AI-generated music slop onto DSPs, with proof that Distro
🔵 Social’s value is plummeting and everyone’s panicking (opens the original)
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Certainly, regular readers will know that I have been signposting a general decline in social media over the last six months or so. Per my previous writings, there’s plenty of evidence to show that users are abandoning platforms. Whilst I note that big tech’s propaganda machine has spun into operation with a recent piece from an NYU professor claiming the contrary, I can only state that every shred of evidence I can see suggests that the value of social is in something of a moribund downward spi
🔵 The great tech selloff has begun. What does this mean for music? (opens the original)
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Last week, it was reported that SaaS (Software as a Service) platform Miro had agreed a sale to the (oddly named) Bending Spoons company for $1.355 billion. In 2022, Miro had raised $400 million at a $17.5 billion valuation. Similarly, Airtable also sold to the same company for just $1.285 billion. In 2021, it had been valued at over $11 billion.I have been saying for some time now that one consequence of AI and its rapid ra
🔵 The EU’s new packaging laws are another nail in the coffin for small/DIY artists (opens the original)
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A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from an artist I follow on Bandcamp. In the email, the artist confirmed he was shutting down his physical store due to new regulations coming into effect that basically render it financially unworkable to retail physical of any form.The drastic nature of the email gave me cause to go and research the claims being made here. What I discovered was arguably worse than I was anticipating. There are two new developments relating to e-commerce and Europe. One
🔵 Introducing soundtrackthepage.com (opens the original)
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Hello all - Of late, I feel like about 50% of Network Notes communications start with some kind of apology for infrequent publishing, but I’ll add another one here for you to toss on the pile. A combination of exceptionally high volumes of work, coupled with a bit of time off, has generally made it difficult for me to find time to write. Equally, being candid, I struggle at times to find the right kind of things to write about, as I would rather not send you anything at all than post articles ju
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