8 - SXSW and Music Streaming

CineNation Episode 8:
SXSW and Music Streaming
SXSW

Aaron Reed

Ice-Bound

Mark Duplass talk

Going out and doing it

Most film school people aren’t competing with other film school people

Tangerine - shot entirely on iPhone

SXSW Interactive:

Gimmicky

is this the future?

 
-Buzzfeed experiments with couples trying to defuse a bomb:

Music Streaming
 

Spotify

100-200x streams vs sales

Long tail

Taylor Swift is opposed to the free tier of Spotify

Lowers the expectations for the cost of music

David Bazan

Jay-Z’s streaming service Tidal

$20/month

high quality audio

Taylor Swift is streaming on it

CNN- Taylor Swift goes to Jay-Z’s service:

If you don’t appear on spotify you risk not being heard

When you think you have a hit, you want everyone to be able to hear the hit

Tying streaming music back into Film

Students are not buying films

Why put your indie movie on a streaming service?

Fans, is film creating fans like music does?