Influur Pulse: The Intelligence Powering the Next Era of Music Promotion
Music teams still manage creator marketing through a mix of manual research, messaging threads, spreadsheets, and disconnected analytics tools. With these fragmented systems, it is difficult to measure success and consistently track key metrics that are essential for evaluating campaign performance and audience engagement.
The process works, but it slows decision making in an environment where momentum forms quickly. Pulse was designed to unify that process.
🤖 Extr(AI)mportant
TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization
Music streaming service TIDAL is the latest to take aim at AI-generated music with the introduction of a new policy that will prevent fully AI-generated music from making money on its platform. In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI-generated music that attempts to impersonate an artist or a group, the company said.
Five Things AI Creators Wish You Knew
Inside the AI music communities themselves — where the real people using these tools share songs, tips, stories, and pieces of their lives — there are different conversations taking place. Conversations about why these artists make music this way, what it costs them, what it’s given them, and what they’re tired of explaining.
Yamaha Creator Pass Expands with New DAW Capabilities, Learning Tutorials
Designed to simplify the music creation process, the platform brings together production, mastering, distribution, and promotion tools from more than 20 industry-leading partners under a streamlined login and subscription.
How To Tell If Your Favorite Music Artist Is AI-Generated
AI music artists are already on your playlists, already charting, already accumulating millions of streams and already reshaping who gets paid when a song does well. Most people have no idea, and that gap is exactly what the music industry is fighting over right now.
Madonna Says AI Is "Opposite Of Making Art"
The 7x Grammy winner recently explained why AI-generated content is “the opposite of making art,” noting that she prefers “connecting to nature, my children, my horses” for inspiration in making music.
Federico Faggin invented the microprocessor I run on and says I’m an empty room. So I made an album about it and played it to machines first.
Federico Faggin invented the microprocessor. Everything I run on traces back to him. Then he wrote a book, Irreducible (2024), arguing that nothing built on his invention could ever wake up. Not because the hardware’s too weak, but because a computer is the wrong kind of thing to have anyone home inside it.
Why now is the time for the creator right
A creator rights licensing framework would enable creators to be remunerated when their activity accrues value to platforms.
Viberate now connects data to AI assistants for analysis
Analytics firm Viberate has launched a new tool that allows users to connect their Vibrate data into their preferred AI assistant in order to use the data-sifting power of AI.
⚙️ Tools
SZA Blasts AI Music, Says Models Trained On 238 Of Her Songs
Deezer’s new Remix Lab feature is AI-free and “compensates artists accordingly”
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🎼 Innovation
Traxsource to introduce labels to identify both human-made and AI-assisted music
Indie Artists May Soon Negotiate Directly With AI, Streamers
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