It’s all about access. Today people want to reach out and touch you, Facebook has flattened the earth, everyone feels equal, and if you stand above the fray… It’s only a matter of time before you’re taken down. This is how Donald Trump can get away with the sappy comments about his family, and his […]

Maybe YouTube is not king. As of this moment, Mike Posner’s “I Took A Pill In Ibiza” has 200,912,604 streams on Spotify. But nowhere near this count on YouTube. The Vevo/YouTube clip has 37,303,201 views. The next most watched YouTube clip of the SeeB remix, which is the track we’re talking about here, has 1,697,208 […]

There’s a first mover advantage. That’s right, let Spotify stream your music early and you get a check or stock or both. Wait until the downside of the curve and you get bupkes. So let this be a lesson to all of you Luddites out there, the best way to leave money on the table […]

Nate Silver told me Donald Trump can’t win. You remember Brother Nate, who called the last election which Mitt Romney thought he was gonna win and Karl Rove couldn’t believe he lost. Silver got it exactly right in the “New York Times,” which unlike a winning sports team didn’t give him what he wanted, so […]