Chirpify Launches #Actiontags: Ecommerce Hashtags For Cross-Platform Sales
While QR codes struggle to find their place, hashtags are here to stay. Chirpify has already done quite a bit with hashtag ecommerce, facilitating sales within social streams; and now. Continue reading
FREE Webinar For Hypebot Readers: Showcase Your Content with hearo.fm
The folks at NARM have announced a series of informative music industry webinars, and are generously offering them to Hypebot readers at no cost. Next up is hearo.fm – Showcase Your Content to. Continue reading
Madonna Goes BitTorrent With #secretprojectrevolution And Soon So Can You
Madonna's got a BitTorrent bundle coming September 24 featuring a new film plus she just did a Reddit AMAA to set things off. It's all part of the launch of. Continue reading
Australian Crowdfunding Site Pozible Launches In U.S. As Kickstarter Enters Canada
Innovative Australian crowdfunding site Pozible, which has supported many successful music campaigns, is now open for business in the States while Kickstarter is now open in Canada with Australia and. Continue reading
My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields On The ‘Virtually Illegal’ State of Indie Music
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. For fans of ’90s shoegaze, and indeed guitar music in general, My Bloody Valentine is sacred. Back when CD stores still thrived, it seemed. Continue reading
Music Video Tools: Easy Lyrics Videos, YouTube Cross-Promotions, Vimeo Sales Upgrade
New tools and features for making, promoting and selling videos are now available. Superstring is software that allows you to easily create a lyrics video. YouTube has introduced new ways. Continue reading
Twitter Tips to Cut the Douchebaggery Out of the Electronic Music Business Online
Twitter is a hot tool for artists everywhere, but it's as easy to abuse this rapidly evolving avenue as it is to use it. What image are you projecting to. Continue reading
Top 5 Music Industry Things to Forget and To Keep
Jessica Blankenship is a writer and media manager at Muzooka (@muzooka). Not-at-all newsflash: The music industry is a completely different animal than it once was. While it's true that the. Continue reading
San Diego Music Thing Day 2: Great Panels, Lol Tolhurst (The Cure) and Mike Herrera (MxPx)
By Diana Hereld of Pathways in Music and photo by James Gutierrez. Day two of the 6th annual San Diego Music Day convention began with two panels entitled “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” the first for. Continue reading
