NEWS BRIEF: Facebook EU Sanctions & $100B IPO, Music’s Eurozone Crisis, Spotify, Pandora & More
EU appears ready to slap Facebook with privacy sanctions that cut to the core its business model. (Mashable) With a cloud hanging over it, can Facebook pull off a $100. Continue reading
New Study Says Average Facebook Fan Worth $9.56
A new study by social-media marketing firm SocialCode puts the value of the average Facebook fan $9.56 per fan, assuming a constant cost-per-click of $1. The study looked at 5. Continue reading
Google Music To Help Independent Musicians. But, What’s In It For Google?
This post is by David Harrell who blogs from the perspective of a musican who self-releases music with his band The Layaways at DigitalAudioInsider. As a self-released musician, I was happy. Continue reading
Webdoc: A New Level Of Social Content Creation
Webdoc is an interesting new service that takes the Storify concept of mixing and matching web content to another level. It was the winner of the recent MUSIC techpitch 4.5. Continue reading
Derek Sivers On The Co-op Business Model: Share Whatever You’ve Got
Sharing has been a part of life for a long time, but has become increasingly important in business and social media – just look at the prominence of share buttons. Continue reading
NARM’s Donio: 20 Years Of Music Retail Upheaval & Next Shift From Sales To Streaming [VIDEO]
(UPDATED) Jim Donio, President of NARM, joins Ian Rogers for a new episode of This Week In Music to talk about how music retail has changed over the past 20. Continue reading
Final Day To Crowdfund Onyx Ashanti’s Amazing Beatjazz Cyborg
Onyx Ashanti, an artist and inventor based in Berlin, is in the final days of a crowdfunding campaign for the second phase of development for Beatjazz, his "quest to build. Continue reading
Spotify Suffers Outage Ahead Of Wednesday’s Big Announcement
Spotify suffered scattered outages on Sunday evening that effected users in the US and Europe. Some users trying to login were greeted with the message: “Service Temporarily Unavailable. The server. Continue reading
NEWS BRIEF: Spotify’s ‘Big’ Day, Sweden v. Legal Music, TuneCore v. DMN, Fugazi, Dizzee Rascal, More
Spotify had a brief outage Sunday, just days ahead of their "Big Announcement" on Wednesday. Music marketing options like this Gorillaz 10th Anniversary page may be part of the update.. Continue reading
Blogger Criticizes Artists for Making Money; TuneCore CEO Jeff Price Responds
(UPDATED) Earlier this week, blogger Paul Resnikoff of Digital Music News used isolated statistics obtained from TuneCore to prove an oversimplified claim that "99.875% of Tunecore artists are making less. Continue reading
