John Kohl, industry expert on Panel Discussion: “Monetizing Your Music” Oct. 18 in Las Vegas TuneGO’s co-founder and CEO, John Kohl will participate in the House of Blues Music Forward Foundation inaugural All Access Fest, a career fair with a rock & roll twist. A featured industry expert, Kohl will take part in the panel discussion, “Monetizing…
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What’s Big Data and Why You Should Care (As an Artist)
What’s Big Data? The music industry has experienced a once-in-a-lifetime shift from physical distribution (CDs, etc.) to digital distribution (streaming), which has created a world of new possibilities for independent artists. Independent artists are now able to distribute their music globally without the support of labels, which allows independent artists to keep more of their…
TuneGO Closes Series B Financing Round
We have successfully completed our Series B financing, totaling more than $7.7 million. Private equity firm Falcon Capital led the Series B financing round. We will use the proceeds to advance our objective of transforming the music industry through the development of technology and application of Big Data. This successful funding round will allow us…
Apple Buys Shazam for $400 Million, Tencent and Spotify Swap 10% Equity, Kobalt Acquires Song Music Catalogue for $160 Million
Apple Buys Shazam for $400 Million – Apple acquired Shazam in the range of $400 million “as part of its bigger ambitions in the music business.” Shazam is a music recognition and discovery tool that has hundreds of millions of users and over 1 billion downloads. Snapchat and Spotify were also in talks to…
TuneGO® CEO Featured Speaker at Vegas Music Summit
John Kohl, CEO of TuneGO®, Inc., a multi-platform music discovery network that connects independent artists with the music industry, will be a featured speaker at the annual Vegas Music Summit. Kohl will participate in the panel discussion titled “The Streaming Business“ 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2 at the Fremont Room in the Downtown Grand…