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CMU Insights @ The Great Escape 2016: The Big Recap

By | Published on Friday 27 May 2016

CMU Insights @ The Great Escape

So, a week has now pretty much passed since this year’s Great Escape festivities, have you recovered yet? We nearly have. Nearly.

CMU Insights @ The Great Escape once again took over Brighton’s Dukes @ Komedia at the heart of the TGE proceedings, with four full-day conference strands packed with fascinating insights, opinions and information. For those who missed it, we’ll be provided write-ups of all the key session throughout June, so keep an eye on your CMU Daily over the next few weeks, or on the CMU@TGE blog, where all those reports will be appearing.

Things kick off today with the CMU Podcast, which returns after a few weeks off this morning. CMU Editor Andy Malt and CMU Business Editor Chris Cooke run through some of the key debates from TGE this year, including the discussions around diversity and mental health in the music community, plus the main takeaways from the blockchain and YouTube sessions. Check out all that – plus some chatter on the secondary ticketing review and Bpoplive’s line-up woes – right here.

Next week we’ll be writing up some of the interviews that took place during the live-themed CMU:DIY programme this year, including Jeff Thompson on the Off Axis project, Nats Spada on Brighton’s Platform B initiative, and Matt Tanner on setting up a club brand and Vez Hoper on running a regular gig night. Then we’ll put the focus on each of our core Insights strands in turn: YouTube and video, data and transparency, physical and direct to fan, and diversity and health.

Premium subscribers will also be able to access mini-reports based on each of the presentations given by CMU Business Editor Chris Cooke this year, which looked at the music industry’s relationship with YouTube, transparency issues around the digital dollar, trends in the physical market, and why the music industry needs to get better at training.

So while The Great Escape 2016 may now be disappearing into the distance, there’s plenty more to learn about the business of music in the coming weeks.



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