You can learn a lot from the outside world. From a fresh perspective on your business from an outsider. What would they do in your case with their knowledge? Now and then we give such an outsider the stage. In this case data specialist Denis Doeland gives us his vision.

Digital first was what we heard for a long time. Then we went on to the phase of mobile first. Are we now moving into the conversation first era? On the one hand, we live in a period of time where visual storytelling rules. YouTube, Instagram, Facebook video, you know

“It’s early days yet.” That’s what we heard in all the Amsterdam Dance Event tech panels. Yes, the techniques we’re looking at are innovative and they are very promising, but they are still new. A lot of work needs to be done to fulfil the promises. Give it a little

“ADE loves innovation and creativity, it’s part of the event’s DNA”, writes the Amsterdam Dance Event on its website. “And in order to celebrate the very best new ideas relating to the music industry, we’ve pulled together ten of the most exciting up and coming companies together with Paradiso Labs,

Of course, everything that is presented like the new Holy Grail, we should take with a pinch of salt. So that’s what we did when Big Data was presented as the new solution to everything. But the power and importance of data and analysis can’t be denied of course. Let’s

You have them in music as well: promising acts that never break through. So far, in technology the same has been the case for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). But is that about to change? With VR you put your special glasses on and you can enter a

The term Artificial Intelligence is everywhere. It’s a hype. Nowadays, every new startup pretends to do something with AI. But the term is nothing new at all. AI is around since the 50’s. It took a while, but thanks to the cheap and strong networked computer power we have nowadays,

The blockchain is at the peak of the hype cycle. There are believers out there that are convinced that this new technology is going to change the world. That it will change banking, it will change real estate, it will change government, it will change everything. We see the potential

With the ‘Paradiso Setlist.fm Importer’ Paradiso imports the data of setlists that fans add to Setlist.fm. So Paradiso can send it to the rightsholders association and the songwriters get the money they deserve. Setlist.fm is a great site. It’s the place where fans add all the songs artists play at

We all know what it’s like: there is so much good music and so little time. How do you find the music you might like in the tens of millions of tunes on Spotify? How do you know when there’s a concert you might love in the 1000+ concerts a