Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. & Indie Music
Alex Day and the Dilemma of the DIY Pop Star Macklemore's Manager On Music Marketing and Social Media Metallica Splits From WMG To Launch Blackened Recordings Average Musician Grosses $5490. Continue reading
MusicThinkTank Weekly Recap: The 25% Rule & More
Where The Music Industry Thinks Out Loud Simon Tam: How Much You Should Ask from Sponsors David Sherbow: SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF NEW MUSIC AND ARTIST DISCOVERY David Roberts:. Continue reading
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
Shazam Predicts Top Emerging Artists of 2013 Data Science and the Music Industry: What Social Media Has To Do With Record Sales Infographic: The Evolution Of Headphones Complete List of. Continue reading
Moment.me Gathers Event Pics, Videos & Tweets From All Over
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. At first blush, Moment.me struck us as one of those startups we’re not supposed to cry for. People already spend seemingly every waking minute. Continue reading
CD Baby Milestone: $250M Paid To Indie Musicians
CD Baby, founded as a backroom enterprise by Derek Sivers and sold to DiscMakers in 2008, announced that it has paid out over $250 million to artists for digital download. Continue reading
Live Nation Labs: One Year Later [Interview with Co-Founder Eric Garland]
In the wake of LiveNation.com’s recent relaunch and the coming of a new year, Hypebot felt it was important to check up with one of the most innovative and potentially. Continue reading
A D.I.Y. Artist’s Successful $30 Download Experiment
By Laurence Trifon, manager for indie electronic act Trifonic (@ltrifon). Will fans pay $30 for a digital download of a band’s new album? In Trifonic’s case, the answer is yes.. Continue reading
New Strategies For Optimizing Your Facebook Posts
Guest post by Valeria Bornstein of Fame House A new research project by social media analytics and software company Buddy Media analyzing brand interactions for Facebook’s Timeline for Pages reveals that the interactions. Continue reading
New Social Networks: Microsoft Launches Socl, Pheed Gathers Celebrities
Social networks continue to roll out for consideration. Obviously musicians and music marketers have to decide where to draw the line on involvement but, if you're hitting the wall on. Continue reading
What If iTunes Were An API?
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. The internets are abuzz once again with news that Apple will release a new version of iTunes today, after Apple senior vice president of. Continue reading