Network Notes
Darren HemmingsA newsletter about the music industry, technology, marketing, and the intersection of all three, brought to you by the strategic marketing agency Motive Unknown.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 156 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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🔵 Universal wants out... but can it pull that off?
Heads up! Network Notes now has a sister site, Every Spoil Is A Style, where I post daily hot takes and things catching my interest, but all in shorter micro-blogging form. There’s a separate email list too, which is free and provides a wee...
🔵 “Fuel a life, don’t fill a feed”
Heads up! Network Notes now has a sister site, Every Spoil Is A Style, where I post daily hot takes and things catching my interest, but all in shorter micro-blogging form. There’s a separate email list too, which is free and provides a wee...
🔵 Announcing: Every Spoil Is A Style
As regular readers know, I sometimes find it difficult to make time to write longer, more considered articles for you to enjoy here on Network Notes. Alongside that, there are various stories that come and go, which I don’t feel warrant pro...
🔵 Everything is vibe coded now
Something I have become aware of in the last few weeks is the degree to which AI is turbocharging much higher levels of coding and development in general, but to a point where it is now threatening structure and systems on quite a basic lev...
🔵 Universal Music vs Distrokid: beware the hidden agenda
When reading about Universal Music’s lawsuit against DistroKid over the weekend, a saying came to mind that I was once told by a TV producer when touring a studio as a schoolkid: “The camera never lies… but it never tells the truth either.”...
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I am the founder and MD of Motive Unknown, a strategic marketing agency based in the UK. We operate primarily in the music business, though we also work with music-related brands too.
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