How Will Twitch Acquisition Influence YouTube?
By Corey Rice of The AristoMedia Group. YouTube’s acquisition of Twitch has a lot of feathers ruffled over how Google’s influence will affect the social broadcasting gaming site. Will users. Continue reading
Spotify Shows Strong Growth: 40 Million Active Users, 10 Million Paid Subscribers
(UPDATE 2) Sharing their first new subscriber numbers since March of 2013, Spotify this morning announced that it now has 10 million paying subscribers and more than 40 million active users. Continue reading
Twitter SoundCloud Deal Appears Dead [REPORTS]
A rumored deal that would have seen Twitter acquiring Soundcloud and again jumping into the music and audio business may already be kaput, according to multiple reports. Germany's Das Speigal first reported that. Continue reading
Even With 1.1 Million Users, Bloom.fm Fails To Find Buyer, Liquidates Assets
Two weeks after it's sole investor pulled the plug, digital music service Bloom.fm announced yesterday that it is shutting down and liquidating its assets. The UK based company had hoped to. Continue reading
Slyde Launches Mobile App To Promote Singles With Rich Content and Monetization
Slyde is a newly launched mobile platform for music marketing and monetization. Artists create "slydes" featuring a promotional single along with a variety of related content. Users collect the slydes,. Continue reading
Crowdtilt Expands DIY Crowdfunding and Ecommerce With “Sell Something”
Crowdtilt launched as a way for groups to pool money and has grown into a multifaceted service for pooling money, fundraising and selling things all of which share elements of. Continue reading
Spotify Starts Telling Fans Why Their Favorite Music Is Missing
While millions of artists and tracks can be found on Spotify and its streaming music competitors, there are still some holdouts. And that number increases for new releases by select. Continue reading
Anatomy of a Number One Debut on Billboard’s Heatseeker Chart
A Q&A with independent hip hop duo OCD: Moosh and Twist’s attorney and interim manager Eric Cohen, who along with partner Michael Silver, led the group’s first EP “Living Out. Continue reading
Moogfest Lost Over $1.5 Million, Seeking Community Funding For 2015
A grant application from Moogfest to Buncombe County has revealed quite a bit about the event including a loss of over $1.5 million. Moogfest 2014 received a $90,000 economic development. Continue reading