Music/TV

Neil Young’s Spotify boycott over the music platform’s hosting of controversial podcast host Joe Rogan highlights some interesting realities about influence in today’s expansive media landscape.

This isn’t just a battle between just Young v Spotify, nor is it a battle between views regarding the pandemic, vaccines, freedom of speech, or Spotify’s economics. It’s a battle between communication platforms and formats, and even between generations.

Conventional wisdom states that social media allo

When it comes to streaming entertainment, music is taking a back seat to video in terms of priority with the biggest brands.

Over the last 3.5 years, service providers offering both streaming music and streaming video content have dedicated far greater resources to promoting video content over music offerings… by a long shot.

Amazon, Apple, and YouTube spent a collective $1.16 billion advertising for their respective streaming video services on national TV from 2018 through the first half of 2