Max Willens

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Max Willens is a staff writer for IBT. He has written about the economics of entertainment and culture for WIRED, Advertising Age, Crain's New York Business and The Village Voice. He is a proud graduate of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

Google Play Music Offers Free Radio, Too

Its free tier is not an on-demand streaming service.

Taylor Swift A Hypocrite? Apple Music Letter Draws Stinging Rebuke From Concert Photographers

Taylor Swift claims she's sticking up for songwriters, but concert photographers say the mega-star bullies little guys, too.

In South Carolina Hate Crimes, Race Is Primary Motive And Blacks Are Most Targeted, According To FBI Statistics

In South Carolina, the percentage of hate crimes that were racially motivated was higher than the national average three of the last four years.

Confederate Flag #Capturetheflag Twitter Meme Urges Whites To Take Down Symbol Of Racism

With every flag at the South Carolina State House at half-staff except the one representing the Confederacy, calls have spread anew to take it down for good.

Apple Music Slammed By Beggars Group, Home Of Pixies, Adele, Radiohead, Other Indies

One of the largest and most influential groups of indie labels published a letter Wednesday, saying it is concerned about the deal it's been offered.

NBA Finals 2015 With LeBron James And Stephen Curry Bring Highest TV Ratings Since 2001; 40% Of Bay Area Tuned In

The series, won by the Warriors in six games, was the highest-rated NBA Finals in the last 14 years.

Just How Is Journalism Supposed To Make Money, Anyway?

Readers say so-called native ads, or sponsored content, have a credibility problem.

Rdio Select Won't Get To Europe Before Apple Music Does

Rdio CEO Anthony Bay told Music Week that record labels and publishers held up the launch of his company's hybrid streaming service.

Why Amazon (AMZN) Wants You Watching Its New Show 'Catastrophe' On Facebook

Amazon will host the U.S. premiere of a U.K. comedy on its Facebook page Monday night. Here's why.

Is Spotify Making 'Indie' Artists Rich? Depends On How You Define 'Indie'

Spotify says a typical "indie/niche" artist earns $700,000 a year on its service. But to be considered indie by Spotify, a band has to sell quite a lot of albums.

NBA Nike Sponsorship Means 'Swoosh' More Logo Creep On US Pro Sports Jerseys

The eight year deal, announced Wednesday, marks the first time the logo of a corporate sponsor will appear on NBA uniforms.

Apple Inc. Antitrust Investigation Of Apple Music Will Be Just As Futile As E-Books. Here's Why

The Justice Department may bring suit against Apple, but any anti-competitive practices will have already changed the market by the time the case closes.

Apple Music Service Features Less Important Than Apple Inc.'s $1.2 Billion Ad Budget

Apple spends more on marketing than Spotify has in revenue.

Apple Music Vs. Spotify Vs. Tidal: Streaming Music Services Have Vastly Different Catalogs

These charts will show you what Apple's new offering will be up against when it launches toward the end of June.

WWDC 2015: Apple Music Is Coming This Month On iOS 8.4

On Monday, Apple finally jumped into the streaming music game with Apple Music — a platform chief creative officer Trent Reznor called “one complete thought around music.”

Apple Inc. Is About To Turn Musicians' Lives Upside Down. Again.

As Apple launches a streaming-music service, artists are concerned their chief source of downloadiing revenue might fade away.

Gawker Staff Votes ‘Yes’ On Union After Messy, Public Brawl That Played Out On -- Gawker

The vote, held June 3, makes Gawker Media one of the first digital media organizations to organize a union.

Yahoo Will Stream NFL Game In London Between Jacksonville Jaguars And Buffalo Bills

The league's annual London game, which will feature the Jaguars taking on the Bills, will be available for streaming on Yahoo around the world.

Magazines Are So Hard To Find, The Industry Built An App To Help You Locate Them

MagFinder, a free app developed by the industry trade group MagNet, taps users' locations to help them find stocked retailers.

Apple's Siri, Google Now And Cortana Have Serious Competition With Hound

The new voice-recognition and language-processing app from Soundhound is the result of nearly 10 years of research.

We Spend Half Our Waking Lives Consuming Media, And It Will Only Increase

A report released Sunday suggests that people will spend more than eight hours every day consuming media by 2017.

Gawker's Attempts To Organize Are Not Going Super Well

Gawker's employees will vote June 3 on whether to form a union with the Writers Guild of America. It's not looking good.

FIFA's World Cup 2018 Sponsors: Shape Up This Organization, Or We're Out

As the vote for FIFA president looms Friday, the 2018 World Cup sponsors are making their position known: Shape up, or we're out.

Now You Can Shazam Objects, Too

Two years after a partnership with stores, the world's biggest music recognition app wants its users to start "Shazaming" ads and products in real life.

If FIFA Loses Sponsors, It Could Be Hard For Them To Find New Ones

Sponsors like Adidas and AB InBev are sticking around for now. But check back in a few months.

Steph Curry's Fall Among The Most-Watched Moments Of The NBA Playoffs

The top-rated game in the NBA's "second season" came in a series whose outcome most experts say has already been decided.

Hollywood's Blockbuster Summer Depends On Overload Of Sequels, New Definition Of 'Summer'

Executives are counting on big-budget sequels, movies aimed at women and some creative accounting to recover from last summer's weak showing.

ESPN, Fox, CBS And NBC Explain Why The Cost Of TV Sports Is Going To Keep Going Up And Up And Up

The price of sports TV rights has been on an endless upward climb — and the rise has inflated cable bills. Here's why the heads of the major sports networks don't think they pay too much.