POLL: 82.5% Say Zune Provides No Real Competiton
In Hypebot’s unscientific poll of readers and industry insiders a whopping 82.5% believe that Microsoft’s ZUNE player and download store will provide no real competition when it launches later this. Continue reading
NPR To Launch Music & Download Site
National Public Radio will create a major digital music service in the first half of 2007 to extend the significant role that their 815 public radio stations hold in music. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Thursday August 31th, 2006
"If someone wants to buy a million CDs from us and then give them away on a street corner, that’s fine with us as long as we get paid." –. Continue reading
Coalition of Independent Music Stores Top 200 for Week Ending 8-27-06
Pos. ARTIST | TITLE 1 OUTKAST|IDLEWILD 2 LAMB OF GOD|SACRAMENT 3 J DILLA|SHINING 4 CURSIVE|HAPPY HOLLOW 5 GNARLS BARKLEY|ST. ELSEWHER 6 YORKE*THOM|ERASER 7 WARD*M.|POST-WAR 8 SLAYER|CHRIST ILLUSION 9 PETTY*TOM|HIGHWAY COMPANION. Continue reading
The Fastest Growing Entertainment Marketplace You’ve Never Heard Of: StubHub
You may have never heard of StubHub, but live music fans who aren’t used to getting on the guest list certainly have. Inc. Magazine has just named StubHub the 8th. Continue reading
Generating Buzz With Viral Campaigns
SearchEngineWatch takes techie look at the methods and the effectiveness of link baiting and ("…attracting anyone who can link to your site. The goal is to get the highest level. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Wednesday August 30th, 2006
SpiralFrog has signed a deal to make Universal‘s catalog available as free downloads via an ad supported network before the end of the year and claims other labels will follow. Continue reading
$.99 Too Much? SpiralFrog To Offer Free Legal Downloads
In a move that could shake up the entire download marketplace, SpiralFrog has signed a deal to make Universal’s extensive audio and video catalog available for free downloads in the. Continue reading
AOL Revamps Music Offerings
Starting today AOL has revamped it’s Music Now offering adding 500,000 tracks to its now 2.5 million download library, and subscription services. Unique to the new AOL service is that. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Tuesday August 29th, 2006
– The current issue of WIRED takes a look at the future of the music industry from a number of angles including profiles of Pitchfork, eMusic, Nettwerk and much more.. Continue reading
