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Facebook has upgraded Pages with new tools, including scheduled page posts and unpublished page posts, that should prove useful to anyone – artists, label or professional – marketing music.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
Get More Involved With Hypebot & MusicThinkTank
At it's best Hypebot is a two way conversation, and we try to make getting involved easy. You can join us on Twitter (@hypebot) where 25,000+ follow. We tweet posts,. Continue reading
A Look Inside The “New” Music Focused MySpace
As tainted of a brand name MySpace may be right now, the fallen social network plans to make a comeback in late 2012 with a focus on what their core. Continue reading
Want A Job At Sean Parker, Ari Emanuel & Oliver Luckett’s Stealth Social Startup TheAudience? [VIDEO]
Last week Music Ally gathered scattered bits of news about a new social media empire that's currently hiring for jobs in Los Angeles. Normally that would be a wait and. Continue reading
Why Copyright Is Evil
A copyright gives the creator of a work exclusive rights to it and an owner of a copyright has the right to make copies, license, and use the work. On. Continue reading
Spotify Releases U.S. Figures, Sees More Than 13 Billion Streams
Spotify launched just over a year ago in the United States (July 14, 2011) and during that time has garnered more than three million U.S. users, with roughly 20% of. Continue reading