#Apple

If you are in interactive development, the below headlines about Apple may be of interest:

• App Analytics
• Apple may reduce its 30% subscription commission
• #Brands: Step up your game
• Apple's App Store passes 100B downloads and $30B paid to developers

Top Items Shared - Past Two Weeks

Here are the most popular news items in the world of music and interactive royalties that I shared publicly over the past couple of weeks:

• "Video Game Audits: What You Need to Know"@IGDA #WednesdayWebinar with "The Game Attorney" Tom Buscaglia
• EU Court rules content embedding is not copyright infringement | Music Week 

• Tricks to negotiating #screenplay prices: Q&A With Dinah Perez, Esq.

• "Sixty-one percent of people who buy CDs are 36 and older, according to MusicWatch's estimate."

• "More than 70% of the music consumed in the first six months of the year in the US was either downloaded or streamed"
• "The history of the Laugh Track" by Stephen Herrera

• Disney Wants to Build a New "Authentic" Search Engine... - Digital Music NewsDigital Music News

• Female PC gamers outnumber males - PC Gamer

• @bwerde The latter.  I think as video ad budgets rise, more artists will start to appreciate how much money can be made via YouTube though.