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Tuned In with Katy Krassner: Music Supervision

MUSIC SUPERVISION – INTERESTING PLAN You know what’s a really interesting topic? Music Supervision.  Licensing your music for a movie, television show or video game is not only great exposure, but it could make you a lot of money. I host a radio show and there are quite a few songs we have played that […]

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Independent Artist Andrew Shapiro’s “Airbox” in Japanese Volkswagen Commercial

Andrew Shapiro is a composer, songwriter and erstwhile TED Talk presenter, living in Brooklyn NY. His song “Airbox”, from the album Invisible Days was just placed in a Volkswagen commercial. Congrats, Andrew! “Last year, I was chatting with an Australian A&R guy about my frustrations trying to get my music to radio, and out to […]

From customer feedback to new applications: how we created our new Player

To improve in-app workflows, and in-turn make meaningful improvements to our app, we really have to understand our users. What makes them tick and how they do their jobs, in other words, knowing the in’s and out’s of their daily workflow.    Over the past year, we spoke with hundreds of users – from music […]

Hola! Bonjour! Hallo! こんにちは!: Play MPE’s Caster Is Now Available In Spanish, French, German and Japanese

We’ve now made it easier for record labels and artists to create promotional content, review performance tracking results and collaborate with their teams from anywhere in the world. Newly added: Spanish, French, German and Japanese language settings are now available to our suite of promotion and distribution tools.  Users can toggle between English and the […]

How To Become A Successful Indie Artist

Beyond talent and songwriting chops, carving out a career as a successful independent artist requires unrelenting dedication. You are a small business – pure and simple. Your understanding of the music business, networking skills, marketing savvy, and your ability to organize and multi-task, will increase over time. But your career will only flourish if, off […]

All That Jazz

Distilling and defining the impact of Jazz is a smidge like tackling the proof of a higher power or defining irony. Broad in scope, yet uniquely recognizable, you know it when you hear it but are likely hard-pressed to synthesize the magnitude of its impact: born in African tradition against the backdrop of slavery, jazz […]

How To Promote Your Music On Social Media

In today’s digital climate, promoting your music on social media can be a huge opportunity. As an artist you don’t have to rely on industry gatekeepers deciding whether your music is worthy of getting air time.  With social media you have a direct link to your fans and you’re in complete control of what you […]

Radio As A Social Force

‘Local conversation and local culture isn’t disappearing necessarily just because we have a world that’s more connected. In fact I think it allows some subcultures to blossom a bit more and for local conversations to have even more power and I think that radio can certainly play a part in that’ – Jared Leto (Thirty […]

How To Promote Your Music To Radio

While the era of digital music streaming has long since descended triumphantly upon us, terrestrial radio remains and one not to be counted out. So, as an artist, you know that you are the best thing since Arctic Monkeys, Bright Eyes, Adele, what have you. Trick is: you need the world to know that, too. […]