Spotify for Artists: A Complete Guide for Musicians
Miloš Blaháček
Digital distribution platforms today represent a key channel for the dissemination of musical production. Among them, Spotify holds the most prominent position, functioning not only as a streaming service but also as a complex ecosystem connecting music content, listeners, and data analytics. For artists and bands themselves, the Spotify for Artists tool has been developed, enabling them to manage their public profile while also analyzing listener behavior.
The aim of the manual Spotify for Artists: A Complete Guide for Musicians is to provide a systematic and accessible handbook for artists, covering everything about Spotify and Spotify for Artists—from gaining access and setting up a profile, through submitting tracks for playlist consideration, to understanding how the algorithms work.
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CIRG – the Cultural Industries Research Group focuses on research into cultural and media industries, particularly on current issues, challenges, and conflicts arising from tensions between intellectual property law, the business models of cultural industries, the digitalization and platformization of cultural sectors, and changing consumer habits. The group’s name is an acronym of its English title, Cultural Industries Research Group. CIRG is an informal association of experts from media studies, intellectual property law, media law, media ethics, cultural economics and cultural management, sociology of culture, and data analysis. The group operates on the basis of project-based funding through applied research projects (TAČR, NAKI, EEA and Norway Grants, OP JAK Intersectoral Cooperation), basic research projects (GAČR, ZIF Bielefeld, OP VVV Excellent Research, DFG), as well as contract research (State Cinematography Fund, Association of Audiovisual Producers).
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Screen Industries in Central and Eastern Europe Research Group
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Charles University
Department of Film Studies
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We offer the opportunity to pursue doctoral study focused on developing and carrying out your own research projects in the field of cultural and media industries. The programme can be undertaken at Palacký University Olomouc, Charles University, or the Prague University of Economics and Business under the supervision of leading experts in media studies, cultural economics, digital ethics, and copyright law.
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