Reading Time: 4 minutes Former SVP and Chief Strategic Technologist of Warner Music and Former Global Head of Publishing at Spotify join Beatdapp Beatdapp is thrilled to announce the addition of digital music veterans Howie Singer and Adam Parness to its Advisory Board. Both Howie and Adam have distinguished themselves as pioneers and leaders Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday, ProPublica published a fascinating expose on the biggest Instagram verification scam ever uncovered. It spanned some 300+ accounts all of which were associated with a couple of opportunistic promoters playing on the hopes and fears of wannabe influencers who, despite striving with all their might, couldn’t legitimately break through Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you’ve been reading us for a while, you’ll likely have picked up on a theme: to fight fraud effectively, collaboration is king. That said, it’s often challenging to collaborate when explicitly sharing data between platforms is, understandably, a non-starter. Competitive dynamics and user confidentiality render outright cooperation nearly impossible. Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes This week, Stripe released The State of Online Fraud, a comprehensive review “of global fraud trends [they] uncovered after analyzing billions of attempted payments and surveying more than 2,500 business leaders.” It’s a fascinating peek behind the curtain into the scale and sophistication of fraudulent behavior in the payments space, Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines steaming fr… Just kidding. How lame of an opener would that be?! We talk a lot about streaming fraud around here: in articles, podcasts, blog posts, you name it. To us, it feels like common knowledge. But actually finding a uniform definition isn’t as easy as you’d Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In case you haven’t heard – and honestly, at this point, how is that even possible – Elon Musk is planning to acquire Twitter. But, he also might not acquire Twitter. You see, Elon has seized on to the fact that Twitter has a bot problem, and is considering scuttling Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes On June 17th, 2020 we published the OG Whac-A-Mole blog post after identifying a MASSIVE threat to the industry, and an opportunity to build a product to arm DSPs with the equivalent of enough mallets to beat the moles at their own game. Since then, many great articles have been Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’ve been within earshot of the music industry over the past five years, you’ve probably come across Music in The Air, a thorough and oft-cited report from Lisa Yang at Goldman Sachs. The key takeaway? Industry revenues are projected to reach $131B by 2030. But there are some terrific Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes In a notable development, Priyanka Khimani, India’s leading entertainment and music rights expert and co-founding partner of the Mumbai based law firm, Anand & Khimani has joined the Board of Advisors for Beatdapp, the Canadian blockchain based music start up. An exciting addition to the Indian music space, Beatdapp is Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Streaming fraud is a multi-million dollar problem in our industry. Don’t just take our word for it: Rolling Stone, Music Business Worldwide, Billboard, Variety, Quartz and too many others to name have been on this beat for some time. Tim Ingham, Publisher of MusicBusiness Worldwide, sums up the incentives driving fraud like this: Streaming fraud is Read more…