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News from the Goolag Since 2006 ~ A survival guide to the creative apocalypse: We follow issues and opinion important to professional creators. Data is the new exposure.

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Written by Chris CastleNovember 6, 2019

20 Questions for New Artists Part 7: Sound Recording Aggregators

[From 20 Questions for New Artists by Chris Castle and Amy Mitchell] An independent artist is practically required to sign up with an aggregator in order to have your works serviced to many online outlets–some aggregators service hundreds of different retailers. (So one example of a pre-existing contract under Question #10 may be a band […]

Written by Chris CastleFebruary 1, 2012July 1, 2012

Reader questions: Digital Aggregator Deals–Is the New Boss Worse than the Old Boss?

We’ve had a number of questions lately about how artists should look at aggregator deals and how to evaluate them.  You would, of course, evaluate these deals the same way you would any other deal in the first instance–using break even analysis.  This requires a little bit–a very little bit–of high school algebra, but you […]

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