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Digital Music News covers the business of music: streaming, labels, publishing, royalties, copyright disputes, live events, funding and the technology changing all of it. Coverage that comes from a pitch alone usually goes to major platforms, large deals and lawsuits, with little room left for smaller companies. With a guaranteed placement, the outlet is confirmed first, you approve every word, and the article publishes on digitalmusicnews.com inside the window written into your scope, usually one week. It is a real article on the site that you can put in a proposal, a deck or a profile.

What Digital Music News covers

Digital Music News is a trade publication for the music industry, read for its daily reporting on how music makes money. It follows streaming services and their payouts, record labels and distributors, music publishing and royalties, copyright law and litigation, ticketing and touring, catalog sales, startup funding, artificial intelligence in music, and the tools artists use to release and promote their work.

The voice is brisk, skeptical and numbers-minded. Digital Music News writes about music as a business under pressure, so the stories that belong there explain a mechanism: a platform paying artists differently, a distributor or label services company with a new model, a rights or royalty tool that finds missing money, a funding round, an acquisition, or an executive with a clear view on where revenue is going.

Who reads Digital Music News

Digital Music News is read by people whose jobs depend on the music economy: label, publishing and distribution executives, artist managers, entertainment attorneys, streaming and ticketing staff, music technology founders, investors and independent artists who run their careers as businesses. They are spread across the major music markets and read it to track deals, policy and competitors.

For a music company, that readership is the market. A feature in Digital Music News reaches the label partners, managers, investors and artists who decide whether to license, sign up, fund or take a meeting. It also works as trade proof in an investor update, a sales deck, a partnership pitch, a conference submission or a recruiting conversation.

Digital Music News readers evaluate companies for a living, so a feature holds up when it explains how something works and who benefits. Strong pieces state the problem in the market, describe the product, deal or approach in plain terms, give figures that can be supported, and say what changes for artists, rights holders or fans.

Each of the angles below can carry a feature. Founders tend to pitch the product tour, but the sharper story is usually the industry problem that made the product necessary.

What weakens a pitch

• A feature list. Readers skim past specifications, and want to know what problem the product solves and for whom.
• Growth claims without support. This audience reads contracts and royalty statements for a living, and everything we write must be true.
• “The future of music.” Every startup says it, so the story needs one specific change it has already made.
• A fan-facing pitch. Digital Music News is a trade read, so consumer excitement matters less than the business case.