If you’re only interested in money… I got an e-mail about this last Thursday, when it went live. Before I saw it on the WaPo site. Would I have seen it anyway? Probably. It was never the top story, but it was featured pretty prominently in the app. But no one else contacted me about […]

From: Craig Anderton Subject: Re: Future Ticket Sales Bob, during the pandemic there was an explosion in sales of music and recording equipment. Companies thought this would create a new generation of musicians and it would go on forever. Well, it didn’t. Music is a discipline and despite the “kids just push buttons these days” […]

“Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era – The creator economy is fragmented and chaotic. Talent manager Ursus Magana can (almost) make sense of it, with a frenetic formula for gaming the algorithms.” : https://tinyurl.com/ys5jycfu 1 Once upon a time, “Wired” was required reading. You might be unaware it’s still publishing. […]

My inbox is full of people defending the Stones, and that’s just sad. First and foremost, my article wasn’t really about the Stones, it was about hype/publicity in general, although I did employ the Stones as an example. But they’re not the only ones, only the most egregious, especially because they used to be considered […]