Tixxy Partners with Veeps, Mandolin; Fave Creates Online Haven for Fandoms, Their Creativity; Granger Smith To Launch Online Radio Station

Platform & Stream
4 min readJul 12, 2021

Tixxy Announces Partnerships with Veeps, Mandolinplatformstream.medium.com

New predictive concert recommendation service Tixxy doesn’t mine users’ data or force them to make space for yet another app.

Fave Creates Online Haven for Fandoms, Their Creativitymedium.com

The digital era has taken fandom to new levels. Yet most fan experiences often leave fans wanting more, with no way to channel their full creativity or connect deeply with fellow fans.

Granger Smith To Launch Online Radio Station, Yee Yee Radiomusicrow.com

The new station will launch Friday, July 2 in partnership with Anthony Lay, better known as Antman, who programmed several country stations for iHeartRadio over the past 23 years including: KTST in Oklahoma City, WSIX in Nashville, and KNIX in Phoenix.

Why esports and music collaborations will drive growth for both industriesmusically.com
The intersection of esports and music isn’t a new phenomenon. Esports has often used live acts in the opening and half time of its major live events.

Inside The UK’s Download Festival Pilot With Live Nation’s Andy Copping: ‘We Need This’www.pollstar.com

Live Nation’s Andy Copping spoke to Pollstar about promoting a scaled-down version of the beloved UK metal and rock festival Download Festival June 18–20 to gather data for the government’s Events Research Programme.

A DJ’s Guide to Navigating Copyright Issues in a Livestream Worldrebeccasmartbakken.medium.com

Can you imagine the copyright claims and issues that popped up when the entire music community went online seemingly overnight?

Scooter Braun Speaks: The Music Mogul on His Billion-Dollar HYBE Deal, Making Peace With the Past and the Road Aheadvariety.com
Music titan Scooter Braun talks his billion-dollar HYBE deal, Taylor Swift and more as Variety’s Music Mogul of the Year.

Bill Ackman gets bullish on music streaming — Financial Newswww.fnlondon.com
Pershing expects mass distribution of music by Spotify Technology, Apple, Amazon.com, Alphabet’s Google and others

Beatport gets a rebrand and iOS app for music streaming and playlist managementwww.musictech.net
Beatport has unveiled its new iOS music streaming and track management app, along with a rebranding of its logo and platform.

Tik Tok Radio Should Be Your Wake-Up Callradioink.com

First and fore-most hats off to Sirius XM for boldly going where others have not gone. But why does an innovative move have to come from them?

6 Designer-Approved Spotify Playlistswww.architecturaldigest.com

We asked creatives to share the songs that are inspiring them right now.

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