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Ari's Take Academy

Founded in 2018 by Ari Herstand, author of the best-selling book "How to Make It in the New Music Business", ATA looks to change the music business education status quo - offering immediately applicable tools and strategies with direct pathways to success.

ATA COURSES ARE TAUGHT BY WORKING PROFESSIONALS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS.

How This Artist Got 100 Million Spotify Streams Without Playlists

Ari Herstand - 03-24-2019

Three years ago the northern Virginia conscious hip hop artist Lucidious was struggling to get listeners to his music. He had about 150 monthly listeners on Spotify (no I didn’t forget a zero) with merely 45 followers, about 1,500 followers on Instagram and Facebook. And was ma...

Best Music Distribution Companies – A Comprehensive Guide

Ari Herstand - 10-15-2020

This is the most comprehensive digital music distribution review comparison between Amuse, AWAL, CD Baby, DistroKid, Ditto Music, LANDR, TuneCore, Songtradr, and more.

Don’t Fall For This Songwriting Scam

Ari Herstand - 06-02-2021

Avoid getting scammed out of thousands of dollars (and hours of time) by this songwriting scam going around.

Podcasts

PodcastsAri Herstand - 06-16-20210

Micro Sync Licensing with Musicbed CEO

Daniel McCarthy is the CEO of FM, which includes the music platform Musicbed. It's one of the more popular sync hybrid platforms.

PodcastsAri Herstand - 06-09-20210

Publishing Deals, Songwriting Camps from Beyoncé Collaborators Noble

Noble are a production duo originally from South Africa now residing in Los Angeles. They recently signed a publishing deal with Campfire Songs.

PodcastsAri Herstand - 06-02-20210

Album Release Strategy, Hot 100 Hit, from Create Music Group

Alexandre Williams is the co-founder and COO of Create Music Group. They're a distribution, publisher, YouTube royalty collection, rights management, influencer, and TikTok (through Flighthouse) marketing company.

PodcastsAri Herstand - 05-26-20210

They Hacked Their Way on Tour With their Favorite Band by Selling CDs to Fans in Line

Michael Walker is keyboardist for the band Paradise Fears, who made headlines years ago for a thing they called "tour hacking."

PodcastsAri Herstand - 05-19-20210

How to Go Viral on TikTok from Flighthouse

Austin Georgas is the senior account manager at Flighthouse Media. They are a full on influencer and media agency that help break songs on TikTok. They've worked on previous campaigns like Doja Cat's "Say So."

ATA COURSES ARE TAUGHT BY WORKING PROFESSIONALS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS.

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RoyaltiesAri Herstand - 06-09-20210