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How Online Casinos Are Setting Themselves Apart From One Another

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The casino industry has been riding the wave of technology for ages. From telegraphing racetrack results in the late 19th century to modern-day (online) scratch cards, the casino business has truly come a long way. Today, there is a new driving force when it comes to the casino industry: the internet. Online casinos have thrived in a cutthroat market, enticing millions of players from all over the world to play their games. Indeed, the industry has been doing so well that it is now easily competing with (sometimes even surpassing) brick-and-mortar casinos. But why has this industry boomed so much in the last couple of years? Well, read on to know how online casinos are setting themselves apart!

Accessibility Is Key


Fast and furious is the name of the game, and nothing irritates players more than delays. Gaming thrives on instant gratification — which is why online casinos have to optimize their games to provide maximum accessibility and efficiency.

This may have been a lesson they learned from modern video games, as there’s nothing worse than being stuck on a loading screen and delaying your gaming experience. Indeed, one of the biggest factors that have set online casinos apart is their near-instant access, allowing players to game anywhere and at any time. Compare this to the effort and cost of having to visit a brick-and-mortar casino — especially if you plan on flying out to the various casino capitals of the world such as Las Vegas and Macau – and it is a no-contest in terms of money saved.

Keep Customers Coming Back


All types of casinos value their players and do everything they can to get them to return. Online casinos make an effort to not only attract players, but also keep those players coming back regularly their site. They do this by creating unique experiences that help them capture their market. This isn’t new at all, as Vegas had done something similar with their star-studded list of headlining artists. Indeed, legends such as Elton John and Celine Dion have all had stints in Vegas as a way to drive large audiences to visit casino venues.

While online casinos can’t get singers to perform on their sites, they’ve found another way to attract players through increasingly large prizes. This has led to online sites using different methods to attract players including getting celebrities to endorse their websites. Ben Affleck recently helped organize a celebrity online poker tournament for Americas Cardroom, where he and a group of other celebrities played a game for charity. While this brings awareness to online platforms it doesn’t engage the public in an active way. This is why a more effective way online casinos have gotten a larger share of the market is through bonuses and prizes. Gala Spins outlines how slot games such as Mega Moolah have awarded as much as €18.9 million ($20.6 million) through bonus rounds to attract players. Indeed, huge prizes are an effective way to keep players engaged and active, and increase the chance of return visits. This makes sense, as people who are new to online casinos may do prior research before they pick a site. Unsurprisingly players would prefer a site with large prize pools. This has been so effective that it could even convert players from other sites, encouraging many online casinos to perpetually outdo each other.

Great Designs


Lastly, what really sets online casinos apart is their willingness to adapt to the times. This can range from the themes of their slots and other games to curating the entire user experience based on modern design principles. This is something that not all brick-and-mortar casinos have accepted, as everything from the architecture of the spaces to the games themselves all feel rather dated compared to the current market for these online games.

While you’ll still see traditional casino games on online sites, they’ve made it a point to continuously add new content so that players never get tired of the games they have on their platform. This can range from changing the iconography on their games to match a popular movie franchise or to introduce a new game mode entirely. As more people use their phones and laptops as their primary source of entertainment, the tighter the grip of online casino gaming on the gaming industry will be.

If you want to learn more about how digital platforms are shaping various industries, check out our article on how digital services like Spotify have resurrected music sales!

*All images are taken from Pexels.com.

3 Ways to Cope With Depression during Work-from-Home Period

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People have been forced to work from home due to the unfortunate circumstances created by coronavirus pandemic. But working from home can be extremely stressful and can send people into depression as well. Here are a few tips to fight depression during this work-from-home period.

Share How You Feel

You need to talk about your feelings in order to fight depression, and during this quarantine period you can do that by writing. There are several blogs out there that lets you post as John Doe, and you can use them to talk about your feelings anonymously and get help and valuable advice from people on the platform who might be dealing with the same challenge. The more you let your thoughts pent up the deeper you will fall into the hole of depression.

Take Small Breaks

By taking small breaks during your work hours and utilizing them in a way that brings you joy is a great way of fighting depression. Make it anything that you enjoy like a bit of cooking in the kitchen, some exercise, or meditation. The more you indulge yourself into things that make you happy the better you will be able to fight depression.

Workout

Working out is also a great way of fighting depression and you don’t necessarily need to construct a home gym for that. There are a lot of apps out there with the help of which you can devise a workout plan that includes exercises that can be done easily at home. Remember, the healthier your body is the healthier your mind will become.

Sue Foley wins Traditional Blues Female Artist at Blues Music Awards

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Sue Foley wins Traditional Blues Female Artist at Blues Music Awards

This event brings together Blues performers, industry representatives, and fans from all over the world to celebrate the best in Blues recordings and performances from the previous year. The BMAs are generally recognized as the highest honor given to blues musicians and are awarded by vote of Blues Foundation members.

Foley spent her early childhood in Canada and started her professional career at sixteen. By twenty-one, she was living in Austin, Texas and recording for Antone’s — the esteemed blues label and historic nightclub that helped launch the career of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Her first release, Young Girl Blues, quickly rooted her unique talents as a proficient blues guitarist, inspired songwriter and captivating vocalist. Foley has toured steadily with her band, toting her signature pink paisley Fender Telecaster — working and sharing the stage with greats such as BB King, Buddy Guy, Lucinda Williams and Tom Petty.

In 2001, she won the prestigious Juno Award for her CD, Love Coming Down. Foley also holds the record for the most Maple Blues Awards (eighteen), including 2019 Guitarist Of The Year. She has also earned three Trophees de Blues de France. Her latest album The Ice Queen, features the cream of the Texas blues scene, including Jimmie Vaughan, Billy Gibbons, Charlie Sexton and Chris Layton, among others.

As an offshoot to her professional recording and touring career, Foley started a project called Guitar Woman based around dozens of interviews she conducted with the world’s leading female guitarists. She wrote articles, organized and promoted concerts, and worked on a book—fueling her passion for gender studies in music and her desire to bring the work of great women guitar players to light.

My Next Read: Glitter Up the Dark – How Pop Music Broke the Binary

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My Next Read: Glitter Up the Dark – How Pop Music Broke the Binary

Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query “is he musical?” become code, in the twentieth century, for “is he gay?” Why is music so inherently queer? For Sasha Geffen, the answers lie, in part, in music’s intrinsic quality of subliminal expression, which, through paradox and contradiction, allows rigid gender roles to fall away in a sensual and ambiguous exchange between performer and listener. Glitter Up the Dark traces the history of this gender fluidity in pop music from the early twentieth century to the present day.

Starting with early blues and the Beatles and continuing with performers such as David Bowie, Prince, Missy Elliot, and Frank Ocean, Geffen explores how artists have used music, fashion, language, and technology to break out of the confines mandated by gender essentialism and establish the voice as the primary expression of gender transgression. From glam rock and punk to disco, techno, and hip-hop, music helped set the stage for today’s conversations about trans rights and recognition of nonbinary and third-gender identities. Glitter Up the Dark takes a long look back at the path that led here.

Sasha Geffen is a writer based in Colorado. Their work focuses on the intersections between pop culture and gender and has appeared in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Artforum, the Nation, and the New Inquiry, among others.

Original ‘Hamilton’ Cast Reunites on John Krasinski’s Some Good News Show to Surprise A Fan

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Your Good News host John Krasinski returns to highlight some good news from around the world… and unveil the perfect Zoom surprise for his new friend Aubrey – the cast of Hamilton!

Curt Smith of Tears For Fears and His Daughter Perform ‘Mad World’

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Musician Curt Smith and his talented daughter Diva performed a brilliant duet of the Tears for Fears song “Mad World” at home together.

…and here’s the original, found on The Hurting.

VIDEO: Children of the Silverlake Conservatory of Music Choir Perform David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”

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Over 50 kids in the Silverlake Conservatory of Music Choir virtually came together to sing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.”

Silverlake Conservatory of Music was founded in 2001 by longtime friends and musicians Michael “Flea” Balzary and Keith “Tree” Barry. Cutbacks in arts education programming throughout Los Angeles public schools prompted the two to found SCM in an effort to fill the void and bring music to the community.

Silverlake Conservatory of Music opened in 2001 in its original location at Sunset Junction. Offering reasonably priced lessons for all and scholarships to students whose families could not otherwise afford lessons, the conservatory expanded its programs to include ensemble classes, summer camps and workshops. With the support of its family of donors, teachers, students, artists and musicians, the conservatory moved into its forever home at 4652 Hollywood Blvd. in October 2016.

Pandora founder launches Sessions: The dedicated music platform enabling artists to play more and earn more through live streaming

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Pandora founder launches Sessions: The dedicated music platform enabling artists to play more and earn more through live streaming

Sessions, a live streaming platform for music, today announced the beta launch of its web and mobile app in 200+ countries and 15 languages. With just a laptop and a microphone, musicians can perform live, cultivate a global fanbase, and make a sustainable income from home.

By combining live interactive streaming with the best engagement and monetization features of advanced game design, Sessions is ushering in a new form of musical performance.

“Let’s face it, digital music has failed the working musician,” said Tim Westergren, the co-Founder of Sessions and former founder of Pandora. “Recorded music has been devalued, and digital retail is driving artists further from their audience. They need an alternative. Sessions puts control back in the hands of the artist. We generate the audience and enable artists to turn that fan base into a dependable foundation of support and direct patronage. A financial reward system driven by fandom.”

Sessions is the first live streaming platform custom built to solve the most pressing issues for musicians – building a true fanbase and generating significant and sustained income.

  1. Building Global Fandom for Free: Most platforms provide little or no marketing support. Worse, they charge to artists to attract listeners or reach their own fans. Sessions does all of this work at no cost to the artist by using its own marketing growth engine to bring the audience.
  2. Making Real Money: While most live streaming platforms rely on one-off tips to compensate artists, Sessions provides the enduring value of virtual goods and services engineered to help Artists earn sustainable, compounding income.

“Games have blossomed in the digital era, transforming from simple, single player arcade experiences into rich massively multiplayer worlds that are changing culture,” said Co-founder and Game designer Gordon Su. “At the same time, music has stagnated, fragmenting into an isolated playlist experience. We used our best learnings from over 20 years of building virtual worlds to design an immersive virtual space for Artists and Fans to thrive. We know how to do this and we can’t wait to put these powers in the hands of artists and fans.” 

Already, a growing number of artists in the beta program are building large audiences and earning steady incomes from the platform. These are artists with no prior commercial presence or success now in a position to make a living doing what they love.

Jackson-Triggs Celebrates 20 years of Supporting Canadian Music with iHeartRadio Living Room Sessions

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Jackson-Triggs Celebrates 20 years of Supporting Canadian Music with iHeartRadio Living Room Sessions

Jackson-Triggs is well-known for supporting Canadian music through an annual signature summer concert series at its Niagara estate amphitheatre. This month, Canada’s most-awarded winery will bring the beats home with the Living Room Sessions, a series of live-streamed, intimate concerts in partnership with iHeartRadio that Canadians can watch and engage in from home.  Jackson-Triggs has also lent support for front-line workers with a $10,000 donation to the Canadian Red Cross.

Jackson-Triggs wines are available at all provincial and private liquor stores across Canada and are available to purchase online through the estate winery website and select local delivery services.

The May Living Room Session line-up includes:

  • May 1st – Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine at 4pm ET
  • May 4th – Wintersleep at 4pm ET
  • May 5th – Karl Wolf at 4pm ET
  • May 6th – Jeremy Fisher at 4pm ET
  • May 7th – Neon Dreams at 4pm ET
  • May 11th – Charlotte Cardin at 4pm ET
  • May 12th – Classified at 4pm ET
  • May 18th – Mt. Joy at 4pm ET

Wine and music lovers can donate to the Canadian Red Cross by visiting: redcross.ca/concert

For more information on the Living Room Sessions and latest schedule, please visit: iheartradio.ca/exclusives/iheart-living-room-sessions

1-minute tip for artists: Things to avoid.

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1-minute tip for artists: Things to avoid.

Too much, too little, not enough or waaaay too much. These are the things to avoid when you’re in a band.

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Eric Alper is a 6-time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week and has overseen the publicity campaigns for over 183 JUNO Award-nominated albums (and 16 in 2025), 45 Grammy-nominated albums, including 47 JUNO Award, 58 Canadian Folk Music Award, 126 Maple Blues Award-winning albums and is also truly honoured to work with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time.

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