Ep. 144: 'The Ringer Tech Pod With Molly McHugh and Victor Luckerson'
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The Ringer
4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of The Ring or Podcasts, I'm still working on a name, please give me more suggestions. |
| 0:05.8 | It is brought to you by Seekyke, our presenting sponsor and the only fan-friendly app for buying and selling sports and music tickets. |
| 0:12.4 | Seekyke makes buying tickets on your phone a total snap. |
| 0:15.5 | With just two taps, you can instantly buy tickets to an event the same day. |
| 0:19.0 | Have your tickets delivered straight to your phone and enter the event without ever having to print a ticket. |
| 0:23.6 | And if you can't go to a gamer show, you can sell your tickets directly from the app in less than 30 seconds. |
| 0:29.2 | With Seekyke, there's no guesswork. |
| 0:30.8 | You know exactly where you're setting, what you'll pay and whether or not you're getting a good deal. |
| 0:34.8 | All right, from your phone. |
| 0:36.4 | So drop your old ticket app and experience buying and selling tickets the way it should be. |
| 0:40.1 | To start using Seekyke, download the free Seekyke app or go to Seekyke.com. |
| 0:53.6 | Welcome to Channel 33. |
| 0:55.5 | Today, we're going to talk about digital music and the music and internet and just kind of the way people have tried to make this thing work and how confusing it can be. |
| 1:05.5 | We're talking to Billy Chasen who created TurnTable.fm, maybe the most fun social music app that unfortunately is not around anymore, |
| 1:14.4 | as well as Scott Pink Mountain who works at Pandora as a music analyst, and then also Tanner Melee, who created an app called Vivo Gig, |
| 1:21.5 | which was going to try and be the Instagram for concerts. |
| 1:24.3 | It did not work out, but he learned a lot of really interesting things about the music and internet industry and how it's all a really difficult landscape to navigate. |
| 1:32.5 | But first, we're going to talk to Victor Lukersen who works at The Ringer. He's a staff writer here. |
| 1:37.3 | Okay, cool, Victor. Thanks for joining me today. How are you? |
| 1:40.3 | I'm great, Molly. How are you doing? |
| 1:42.3 | I'm good. I was just reading this article a few weeks ago, but it's really relevant to a lot of things we're talking about today. |
| 1:48.9 | It was about how Spotify had to, since they couldn't get all these big names, they tried to win within algorithm. |
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