Music’s future is intertwined with the development of its media context. The metaverse, a concept describing persistent shared virtual spaces, is a currently much debated topic in order to think about the media future we’re creating. This article is about that future. The development of technology tends to move through hype cycles and reaches a […]
Forget the usual suspects: venture capital firm BITKRAFT is easily one of the most interesting funds to watch in the entertainment space. Since the start of June, they have participated in 5 funding rounds totalling over $44 million into companies pioneering possible futures for digital media. With music mostly detached from its “real world” context […]
I normally don’t do predictions, because they tend to ignore the human factor and the influence that single, talented individuals can have when they appear in exactly the right moment. However, having spent most of my career in streaming, building niche models that can live side-by-side with streaming’s status quo, I have various deep-rooted beliefs […]
We’re at a unique moment for innovation in music. This moment stands shoulder to shoulder with the Napster moment and the early web2 moment that gave rise to Music Hack Days, Spotify, SoundCloud and pushed into prominence music distributors as startups. Themes of this moment include all things ‘metaverse’ (whatever that means nowadays), livestreaming and other virtual interaction models, and the […]
There’s a reason why innovations get picked up when they do. Part of it is technological maturity, but a much harder to see convergence of trends is often key to things taking off when they do. The past years have seen creators calling for fairer compensation, trying out new business models through ‘the creator economy’, people being […]
The internet is entering a new era of community. The web3 has unlocked the possibility for communities to easily come together across platforms, which gives communities a sense of ‘realness’ that doesn’t feel the same as being on a web2 platform. Web3 gives people collective ownership of their community by holding tokens in their web3 […]