DMT 1-2-1

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This week on the show a feature on LANDR (from the company until recently known as MixGenius), an online automated music mastering service that is making waves in the production music world, I chat with co-founder Justin Evans and we cover the company from the very beginning up until the latest developments.

(Andrea Leonelli)

This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show an in-depth interview with Simon Cole, the CEO of 7digital.

We discuss the company's recent merger with UBC Media and the coming together of two cultures, the future of the company, some of its most recent deals, merging spoken word content with personalised music, international challenges, Audioboom, the company's tech back-end and what it's like to be at the helm of a public company (and how to deal with swings in stock price...).

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
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This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show I chat with the founder and CEO of Africori, Yoel Kenan.

Africori is a company that works across multiple territories in Africa dealing with music licensing and distribution for artists and labels. With offices in London, Cape Town and Lagos, Africori has been quietly building a strong network of relationships and Yoel chats about how the market is evolving, the biggest challenges in developing the music economy, payment systems, contractual issues, the importance of YouTube and much, much more.

For me this was a particularly fascinating episode as I know extremely little about digital music in Africa - as demonstrated during the recording of DMT 199 at Berlin Music Week - so if you're on the same boat this interview should provide a good introduction to the topic.

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a fantastic week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
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This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show an interview with Nadav Poraz, the CEO of WhoSampled.

WhoSampled has been around since 2008 and has collected data on samples usage for over 270,000 tracks, building a powerful and remarkably accurate database of who sampled who through the decades.

The company this week released a free Android app so we chat about the evolution of the service in general and the mobile component in particular, the business model, data analysis, what the future holds and much more!

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a fantastic week and 'till next time!
Andrea Leonelli
www.digitalmusictrends.com
www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

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This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show an interview with Iain Hagger, the CEO of the startup CampaignAmp, an all-in-one project management and analytics platform that aims to help label marketing departments, music PR companies and artist managers effectively coordinate campaigns.

CampaignAmp has already worked extensively with major labels and large independents on a number of N.1 album release campaigns.

We chat about how the company started out and much more.

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

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This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show an interview with Marcus Rüssel, CEO of the Berlin-based startup Gigmit, an online platform built both for artists and for live music promoters.

Gigmit allows promoters to easily find artists suitable for their events and to manage the booking process in one place whilst enabling registered performers - whether bands or DJs - to find gigs.

Gigmit has already established relationships with hundreds of promoters across Europe and we chat about the platforms' progress, business model and expansion plans.

I hope you enjoy the show, have a fantastic week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

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This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show a feature on the social music apps developer Smule focusing in particular on the Artist Program recently launched by the company.

It was a real pleasure to welcome Jeannie Yang, Chief Product and Design Officer and Turner Kirk, Artist Relations Manager at the company to the show. We cover a fair bit of ground going all the way back to the first ever collaboration with an artist with the T-Pain app in 2009, the natural evolution of the relationship of the company with musicians and how that converged into the Artist Program.

We chat about how the partnership between Artists and Smule could help create an ecosystem that encourages discovery as well as create a new revenue stream. Finally we catch a glimpse of Smule's plans for the social future of the platform.

It was great to finally catch-up with a company that I've been keeping an eye on for years, so I really hope you enjoy this show.

Have a fantastic week and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
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This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show an interview recorded in person (for once) at C/O Pop in Cologne. My guest is Nic Jones, Senior VP of International at VEVO and in the discussion we cover the company's first year in Germany, the evolution of its user base and the devices they access the service from, progress on the monetisation front, the results of the VEVO Lift program, the company's new discovery tools and much more.

I really hope you enjoy this week's show, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

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This week a double episode of the DMT 1-2-1 as I hosted two great guests.

The first interview is with Shankar Meembat, CEO at Exaget. The company has developed a technology that delivers customised and targeted audio advertisements and other content to listeners based on their profiles. We chat about their development, the radio market and the opportunities for targeted advertising.

The second interview with with social entrepreneur Jessey Jansen, founder of the Little Lady Studio and the driving force behind the Voice of Maasai Kickstarter campaign. Jessey chats about how she ended up working with a Maasai choir, how this project came together, the purpose of the Kickstarter and how this kind of tool can be used to empower communities. If you'd like to support the Kickstarter you'll find it here.

I'd like to thank Play MPE® for supporting this week's episode of Digital Music Trends. Play MPE® is used by major and independent labels in over 45 countries and can help you to securely promote your artist with a rich multimedia experience. Find out more on http://www.plaympe.com.

I really hope you enjoy this week's interviews, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show an interview with Matthias Strobel, CMO at Nagual Sounds.

The company just launched an Indiegogo campaign to support its first commercial release, Nagual Dance, a game that uses the Kinect to transform movement into sound.

You can find the campaign here  https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nagual-dance-body-moving-music.

We chat about the company's evolution, the upcoming game, the soundscapes, the indiegogo perks and much more!

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

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This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show an interview with David Dufresne, CEO of the company BandZoogle (http://www.bandzoogle.com), that for 10 years has been providing musicians with an easy way to create a website and to communicate with their audience without having to learn a line of code. The company has over 22,000 active accounts and price tiers ranging from $10 to $20 per month.

We chat about the company's evolution, the recent partnership with Bandcamp, the acquisition of Onesheet, the release of the 2.0 platform last year and much, much more!

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a fantastic week and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show an interview with founder and director of Fatdrop, Alex Stacey.

Fatdrop is an online platform for promoting pre-release music, it started out in 2007 and during the show we chat about the evolution of the company over the years.

The company has just launched its newest iteration, Fatdrop 5.0, which allows record labels and PR companies to share information about upcoming releases with influential professionals and music fans. The system is currently in its public beta phase.

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

Subscribe to the Digital Music Trends weekly newsletter on bit.ly/dmtlist.

This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show an interview with Jenn Miller, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at licensing technology company Audiosocket (http://www.audiosocket.com).

Audiosocket has been around since 2008 and has thrived providing creative licensing solutions for use on all media.

We discuss the company's Music as a Service (MaaS)  and its LicenseID technologies and I also chat with Jenn about her recent experience taking part in a roundtable with the US Copyright Office to discuss reform.

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

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This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show I chat with Paul Anthony, the CEO of the company Rumblefish (http://www.rumblefish.com).

Rumblefish is one of the leaders in the music licensing space, we discuss the company's evolution, its products, the state of the online music licensing industry, the importance of YouTube, competition and more.

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show an interview with Ben Brannen, the President of atVenu. The company is working hard to provide music industry professionals - whether artists, managers or tour managers - with an easy way to track merchandise sales whilst on the road thanks to an advanced ecosystem spanning across web and mobile apps.  atVenu has already processed $85 million worth of merch sales and has settled thousands of shows, the service is available internationally.
Merchandise can be a pretty unsexy part of the music industry but is proving to be very resilient and Ben does a great job explaining what the current challenges are and how his company is trying to solve them.
I really hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and 'till next time!
Andrea Leonelli
www.digitalmusictrends.com
www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

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This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show an interview with Joao Afonso, co-founder and CEO of the company Musikki.

Musikki has just released an iOS app aiming to connect every piece of information around music out there making it super-easy to find out everything you want to know about your favorite artists from their latest news to their latest video, tweet or show. During the interview we also give viewers a visual tour of the app looking at its key features.

If you'd like to check it out head on to the app store http://georiot.co/r0n

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a fantastic week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli
http://twitter.com/digimusictrends
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show an interview with Damien Tardieu, the co-founder and CEO of Paris-based startup Niland (http://www.niland.io).

The company aims to improve music search and recommendations by taking a music-centric approach based on the analysis of thousands of data points in a song that are rendered into an algorithm. The system is then able to identify similar-sounding tracks.

The company's first API-based product Siilar is out now and is primarily aimed at music libraries, distributors and publishers, but Niland is also working on a broader music recommendation product that will take into account social media and personal user data to refine its recommendations.

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a fantastic week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

This week on the DMT 1-2-1 show I interview James Williams and Steve Snooks from the company SubPac - http://www.thesubpac.com. The company aims to revolutionize the way we listen and produce music and especially bass-heavy music. The two models of the SubPac, a production one and a consumer one, are already available to purchase.

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
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This week on Digital Music Trends I interview Jeremy Silver, Author of the newly released book Digital Medieval: The First Twenty Years of Music on the Web ...and the Next Twenty. Jeremy has had over 20 years of experience in the music industry and now is Executive Chairman at Semetric (the company behind MusicMetric).

On the show we chat about the origins of the book and the concept behind "Digital Medieval", the influence of today's tech giants, his work at Virgin Records and EMI, the failure of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), the future of direct to fan, his experience as CEO of the Featured Artist Coalition and his thoughts on where the music industry is heading.

You can check out Jeremy's website on http://www.mediaclarity.com and as for Digital Medieval you can grab a copy of the book on Amazon here: http://georiot.co/3MMq

I really hope you enjoy this week's 1-2-1 show, have a fantastic week and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
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On this week's DMT 1-2-1 I chat with Bob Barbiere, the CEO of the company Dubset Media. Dubset is a technology company focused on resolving the rights of complex music content such as DJ mixes for example. The company recently closed a new round of funding led by Rhapsody, we chat about that but also cover the company's mission, products and much more. Check out http://www.dubset.com for more information.

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends