WhoSay Grabs $12 Million For Premium Social Tools
WhoSay, a social media tool aimed at high profile music, film, tv, music and sports personalities, today announced a Series C round totaling $12 million. Comcast Ventures led the round. Continue reading
AutoRap – New #1 App Converts Speech To Rap
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. If you’re looking for another fun music app to amuse yourself and your friends — or perhaps if you want to try. Continue reading
Chirpify Brings L.A. Music Executive On Board For Twitter Commerce
By now, it’s common knowledge that social engagements are important to building and sustaining an artist community, but the question always looms as to how one monetizes their community. After. Continue reading
DJ Shadow Releases First Ever Monetized BitTorrent Bundle
DJ Shadow and Fame House are pursuing a wide range of marketing partnerships for the upcoming archival project "Total Breakdown: Hidden Transmissions From The MPC Era, 1992-1996" featuring previously unreleased. Continue reading
BandPage Expands To Become Hub For Musician Content On The Web
When Facebook required brand and band pages to switch over to the Timeline layout earlier this year, many Facebook application providers felt an uncomfortable blow as the new layout resulted. Continue reading
Facebook Adds New Marketing Tools For Pages
Facebook has upgraded Pages with new tools, including scheduled page posts and unpublished page posts, that should prove useful to anyone – artists, label or professional – marketing music. "All. Continue reading
Two Inane Suggestions For Compensating Artists Online
Guest post by Krzysztof 'Faza' Wiszniewski. This post was originally published at TheCynicalMusician.com. The problem with hardcore geeks (meaning here people who know about computers, as opposed to the other. Continue reading
Online Street Teams: How to Motivate Fans To Spread The Word For You
Guest post by Moses Soyoola (@moseyshow), co-founder of Jamplify (@jampaigns), a promotional platform that turns fans into active promoters of artists' content. Whatever happened to street teams? It used to. Continue reading
The Most Valuable Thing You Never Knew About YouTube’s Business Model
Guest post by Doug Shineman of The Orchard's Daily Rind. What if I said that the better you understand the mechanism behind YouTube’s business model, the higher your streaming rate. Continue reading
