Artists signed to Warner Music Group labels will release music NFTs through the upcoming Polygon-based marketplace LGND Music thanks to a multi-year partnership announced today between the major record label, the Ethereum sidechain network, and the Web3 music startup. Set to launch in […]
In the latest sign that NFTs remain popular with collectors, Sound, a platform for music tokens is singing a very catchy tune. The number of mints on Sound have doubled in each of the last two months. At 12,080, according to a Dune Analytics query, over a third of the platform’s total of 30,562 […]
With the advent and unprecedented success in the utilization of AI and machine learning across social media, delivering bespoke video and image content to their users, the question is quickly arising on when it will be further placed within the film and TV environment for broadcasters, streamers, […]
The piece is currently in the archives of the Moravian Museum, in the Czech city of Brno to keep it from being stolen by Nazis. The original owners–the Petscheks family–were once the richest family in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia and fled the country to escape the Holocaust. The 4th movement of the […]
Journalism Competition and Protection Act moves closer to passage
The new FAST channels come from WMX, the division WMG formed a year ago that houses the company’s content, ecommerce, fan experience and commercial services businesses. Each of the three music and entertainment linear channels will feature music videos and concerts from WMG’s global catalog […]
Since the inception of the metaverse as a concept, some of the earliest explorations have included the creation — and adaptation of — graphic novels for this new virtual environment. From Method Man’s comic book MEFaverse, to the adaptation of Dan LuVisi’s iconic Last Man Standing: […]
There will be multiple business casualties in the paid streaming wars and a few business victors. Digital markets for industries that have high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs have tended toward a few, unusually large winners, and I believe such will be the case in entertainment. In […]
CEO Andy Jassy used last week’s Dealbook Summit to declare that Amazon’s entertainment venture is actually about more than just getting folks to buy things online. “I do think over time we have opportunities to make our Prime Video business a standalone business with very attractive […]
In the past, indie filmmakers have turned to traditional crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter to secure project funds. From critically acclaimed action comedies like Kung Fury to award-winning horror flicks like The Babadook, crowdfunding has helped many cult classics come to fruition. But […]
