Want to go global? A new eMarketer report, says the number of worldwide social network users will climb to 1.73 billion this
year. That means one in four people on the planet will regularly use
Facebook, Twitter or one of their many competitors.
Artist manager and label co-founder Emily White tells the story of her career in music. From her internship with Amanda Palmer and The Dresden Dolls, to her time at Live Nation, and finally to founding her own management company and record label.
White led with her positive spirit, business smarts, and can-do attitude. Hear her stories and learn from her music industry lessons in this Interview Series episode of the Upward Spiral podcast. Listen below:
New on Hypebot's Music Industry Jobs Board is a opening a TAG Strategic, the top ratred digital music and entertainment consultancy. They're looking for a Director Of Sales and Marketing. You'll also find a post for a Professor of Music Technology at Loyola University and much more. Details are here on the Music Industry Jobs Board.
#nwplyng is a recently updated mobile app designed for sharing music that's supported by a much larger vision and long-term plans. Drawing on the best in mobile features and practices, #nwplyng has been described as a SoundTracking with gamification or a Foursquare for music.
Can you remember the music services, technologies and formats you used 10 years ago? If, like me, you are struggling to remember, here’s a little help: You would not have used YouTube, or Spotify, or listened on a smartphone, or shared music choices on Twitter. Why? None of these products and services existed in 2003. So, what did you do?
A recent article in The Village Voice considering Urban Outfitters addition of vinyl to their inventory encourages supporters of music to "for the love of God, go buy a record there." However Urban Outfitters has a well-documented history of ripping off the work of independent designers. If you're a musician or music fan who supports indie musicians, then you'll recognize why buying vinyl at Urban Outfitters is a bad move.
The longtime practice of unpaid music industry internships is now under fire. Yesterday an intern filed a class-action lawsuit against Warner Music
Group and Atlantic Records over his and other unpaid internship. The fling is similar to recent lawsuits in publishing, film and other industries, with recent court rulings generally unfavorable of the practice.
As a musician, do you think of your music as a service or as a product? Before the phonograph, people could only experience music live. Now, people can experience music virtually anywhere with digital music. As a musician, thinking of your music as a service rather than a product can help you strengthen your relationship with fans. Check out more of what Mark Doyon had to say about music as a service on Music Think Tank.
Hypebot has always been about the business of music. But in this new series, How I Listen, we're asking industry leaders and artists to share how they discover and consume music, along with what they are listening to. First up: David Dufresne, the CEO of music web site and marketing platform Bandzoogle.
Andrew Dubber is Professor of Music Industries Innovation at Birmingham City University. And other stuff..
Let’s rewind…
In September 1995, the first consumer mp3 encoding software was released, allowing computer users to store digital music on their hard drives. At this time, typical hard drive sizes ranged between 500 and 1000 MB in size, so data compression was essential.
Last week Twitter unveiled two tools that should be of interest to anyone using Twitter for marketing purposes. One was an analytics feature within Twitter Ads that wasn't officially announced and doesn't require you to buy ads to use. The other is an officially approved product powered by Vizify called #FollowMe that allows you to create video highlight reels from your Twitter stream with music via Friendly Music.
By Jeff Price (@TuneCoreJeff), Co-Founder of Audiam and Founder and Former CEO of TuneCore.
For those artists not aware, Pandora has taken the gloves off completely and is out to beat the crap out of you to make more money.
Pandora is an Internet streaming radio service that makes money just like AM/FM radio, through advertising. It's also a publicly traded company. All of its investors and shareholders want to make a lot more then they already have.
Jacobs Media's annual Tech Survey, described as the "largest radio tech survey ever conducted," also gives insight into self-reported media usage across a range of devices, digital options and broadcast services. Particularly noteworthy was an overall slip in both AM/FM radio and TV audiences as well as some interesting observations regarding Pandora.
Twitter Music has been available to the public for two months, but so far it’s been a dud. However, at CyberPR, Jon Ostrow writes on Music Think Tank about why Twitter is still critical for marketing your music. What do you think of Twitter Music? How do you use Twitter to market your music?
In a deal that sources put at $5 million, Samsung has purchased 1 million copies of Jay-Z’s next album, entitled “Magna Carta Holy Grail”. A million Samsung Galaxy smartphone users will receive a free copy on July 4th, 72 hours prior the official release. It's not yet clear that these million copies will count towards Jay-Z's first week positions on Billboard's Nielson Soundscan charts. The rumored $5 per copy price would theoretically allow the business savvy star to qualify, virtually guaranteeing a #1 debut.
(UPDATED) Warner
Music Group extended it's global presence today with the acquisition the Gala Records Group, Russia's first privately own label and leading independent music group. The country has been a hotbed of copyright infringement, and Gala is one of the few labels to have successfully battled infringers in local courts.
Wes Davenport is a music marketer, blogger, and publicist based in Nashville, TN. He writes about ways modern musicians can thrive at wesdavenport.com. Follow him on Twitter @wesdavenport for more music industry insights.
How much time do iOS users spend in different kinds of apps? Flurry, a mobile app analytics company, released a report that reveals how music, media, and entertainment apps stack up against the rest. While mobile music apps aren’t isolated from other entertainment apps, there are still strong takeaways for the music business.
Several of China’s major online music websites have shifted from free, to a fee-based model for music downloads. According to Chinese news service Sina, major labels including Universal, Sony, and Warner Music pressured Chinese music sites, including Baidu Music, Cool Music, and Xiami.com to shift to a pay model with a deadline of June 5th.
This week the Future of Music Coalition launched a group of quizzes to test your knowledge of music and money from copyright to compensation. The quizzes range from "Easy" to "Expert" and the answers include helpful explanations. It's all part of their mission to educate musicians about such topics as music revenue streams and new business models.
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