{"id":2112661,"date":"2025-10-24T12:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2112661"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:22:51","slug":"zedge-launches-new-creator-focused-music-app-tapedeck-for-fair-artist-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/zedge-launches-new-creator-focused-music-app-tapedeck-for-fair-artist-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Zedge Launches New Creator-Focused Music App \u2018Tapedeck\u2019 for Fair Artist Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->Zedge Inc. (NYSE:<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/ZDGE\" data-ylk=\"slk:ZDGE;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>ZDGE<\/strong><\/a>) is one of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insidermonkey.com\/blog\/10-best-long-term-penny-stocks-with-huge-upside-potential-1628173\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:best long term penny stocks with huge upside potential;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>best long term penny stocks with huge upside potential<\/strong><\/a>. On October 6, Zedge launched Tapedeck, which is a new music app and service. The company designed Tapedeck to offer musicians greater control over their work and fairer compensation. The initiative extends Zedge\u2019s successful creator-first model, which began with the Zedge Premium marketplace in 2017 and has since paid out millions of dollars annually to creators globally.<!-- HTML_TAG_END --><\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->Tapedeck is the concept of Tim Quirk, Zedge\u2019s SVP of Product and a veteran of the music industry. Quirk has a history of involvement in the digital music landscape, including being the lead singer of Too Much Joy, launching Rhapsody in 2001, contributing to the development of Google Play in 2011, and founding Freeform Development, which is a startup that Zedge later acquired.<!-- HTML_TAG_END --><\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"article-figure-image\" class=\"yf-8xybrv\">\n<div class=\"image-container yf-1gfnohs loader\" style=\"--max-height: 538px;\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapper yf-1gfnohs\" style=\"--aspect-ratio: 960 \/ 538; --img-max-width: 960px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"yf-8xybrv\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->Zedge Launches New Creator-Focused Music App &#8216;Tapedeck&#8217; for Fair Artist Compensation<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->Quirk noted that fair artist compensation was once the norm, citing Rhapsody\u2019s initial standard of a penny per play and FreeForm\u2019s success in proving superfans would pay extra to support artists.<!-- HTML_TAG_END --><\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->Zedge Inc. 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This article is originally published at\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insidermonkey.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Insider Monkey;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong><b>Insider Monkey<\/b><\/strong><\/a>.<!-- HTML_TAG_END --><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source finance.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zedge Inc. (NYSE:ZDGE) is one of the best long term penny stocks with huge upside potential. On October 6, Zedge launched Tapedeck, which is a new music app and service. The company designed Tapedeck to offer musicians greater control over their work and fairer compensation. 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