Disrupting the music industry
Holidays are a great time to catch up on your reading and with Easter right around the corner, why not do just that? Reading the right books are also a great way to get smarter about the music business and inspire your next career move. In this article, we recommend five books about the music business that will help you take your …
by CEO Jesper Skibsby This year was my first SXSW, and what an experience. Lots and lots of interesting panels, workshops, and debates regarding all aspects of the music industry. Networking opportunities at SXSW were endless, and from my point of view extremely valuable. The center of Austin is sizzling of great networking events, especially the A2IM breakfast(American Association of Independent Music) …
Here at WARM, people often ask us if radio is still important. Many are under the impression that the death of traditional broadcast radio is right around the corner and don’t quite understand why a radio monitoring service like WARM is such an important tool for musicians. Isn’t the future in streaming? Isn’t radio ancient and irrelevant? Not so fast. While …
Youtube has come a long way since the beginning when cat videos were the main thing dominating people’s attention spans. While there’s still tons of silly stuff on the platform to waste your time on, there are also thousands of content creators valuable insights into every conceivable topic. Of course here at WARM, we’re mostly interested in helping you with …
This May, WARM will be appearing at the festival/music industry conference The Great Escape in Brighton, England. The Great Escape is one of the most important conferences for the discovery of new musical talent as well as for showcases and discussions about cutting-edge industry-related issues. WARM will be featured at TGE’s The AI Conference along with four other music tech-companies on 17 …
Music business conferences are a great place to further your career as a music industry professional. Whether you’re a musician looking to get your music heard or a manager or label-person looking to network with like-minded colleagues, events are some of the best places to connect with music business people from around the globe. Fortunately, more and more of these …
The mighty Buzzfeed were so kind as to include WARM in their list of ‘Top Music Technology To Watch In 2018’. Obviously, we’re thrilled to be included in this awesome list which also includes innovative startups like ForTunes, TagMix and Verve. Check out the full list here
These days, the music industry is in a state of constant change. Rapid changes in technology and new online music services means that the ways musicians market their music, create revenue streams and connect with fans is constantly being redefined. For this reason, it’s more important than ever to keep up with the latest trends and developments to optimize your …
Matt Caldwell PR is one of the UK’s leading PR-agencies for electronic music. Since 2012, they’ve successfully worked with everything from chart-topping DJs and producers to up and coming talent fresh out of the bedroom. MCPR’s modern approach to PR reflects today’s complex digital landscape and unlike many other agencies, they also offer artists support in areas such as booking and …
Last week, WARM attended Music Ally’s NY:LON Connect music conference in New York City. We had a great time and Jesper Skibsby gave a presentation on WARM alongside seven other promising music/tech startups. In this article from Music Ally, you can read a recap of how it all went down.
We are proud to announce that WARM-CEO Jesper Skibsby will make an appearance at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. Jesper will be featured on a panel about content recognition technologies and the music value gap. Fellow panelists include Sophie Goossens from Reed Smith LLP and Ben Constantini from Startup Sesame. The panel will discuss how content recognition technologies …
We are proud to present the first creation in a series of WARM vlog productions. In this vlog, WARM’s CEO and founder, Jesper Skibsby, invited the digital music distribution expert, Henrik Fuglesang, in for a talk about music, data and what not. See it here: Henrik Fuglesang, Country Manager at Believe Digital Henrik is country manager at Believe Digital …
We are proud to be featured in one of the most impactful music industry medias: MusicAlly. They’ve just published a recommendation of WARM in their “Sandbox” magazine. “One major piece of the music promo puzzle, though, has often been difficult to crack in terms of planning, measurement and attribution analysis—radio. There are over 9,000 radio stations in the US, alone, …
What a week! Christmas came early this year! Last week WARM was on fire 🔥🔥 The week started out with a pretty awesome piece in Forbes on how the radio royalty system (doesn’t) work today and WARM’s take on it. The article is written by the mighty fine Monty Munford – thanks Monty! Read the Forbes article here. Later same week, …
Nu har du chancen for at blive en del af et spændende start-up i rivende udvikling. WARM søger en ny medarbejder med stærke kommunikations og SoMe-kompetencer samt grafiske kompetencer. Din uddannelsesbaggrund og din tidligere arbejdserfaring har vi ikke specifikke krav til. Det vigtigste for os er, at du har et drive for at arbejde med kommunikation inden for musik/tech feltet, …
The current way of distributing radio royalties are broken. Forbes has written an article about how we are disrupting it. About a month ago Jesper (Founder of WARM) was attending a cocktail party in Madrid where he met the inspiring Forbes writer, Monty Munford. “I met an awesome guy called Monty. He was a journalist and we ended up having a loooong talk …
The French music industry expert with the most impressive CV: Virginie Berger, CEO of Armonia Online has joined WARMs advisory board. If you haven’t already heard about her, here is your chance to get to know her. Virginie Berger has almost 20 years of experience in the music industry with high profile music, marketing, communication and international development experience. She is …
The music industry is caught up with streaming and playlists and with good reasons, but what about radio? How does the future look for the radio format and is it still relevant? In 2010, I started a management company with very limited resources and know-how about the music industry. I had previously been DJ’ing at the local nightclub, but soon …
“RECORD of the DAY” is an independent company publishing a weekly magazine and a daily email newsletter featuring the most relevant and up-to-date music and media new imaginable. And this is where WARM comes into the picture. RECORD of the DAY has interviewed Jesper Skibsby, the Founder and CEO of WARM, to discuss how WARM can boost DIY artists, indie labels, …
For far too long independent artist, bands, managers, labels, songwriters and producers have had no, or very little insight into when or where their songs are being played on radio stations. WARM has changed that, and we are here to create transparency by providing you with valuable data about your music. How to get started? 1. Create a user account …
