Linkfire: “Smart Links For Music Marketing”
Linkfire is a promising new service that creates "smart links for music marketing." Smart links allow you to use one link that can direct people to a specific url based. Continue reading
Tim Fite’s iBeenHACKED Project Shows How You Can Work Locally With A Global Reach
Tim Fite is an interesting multimedia artist whose work involves a lot of performance elements including songwriting and music videos as well as performance art and teaching. His current project,. Continue reading
Ticketing M&A: Ticketmaster Acquires Sherpa.be, Vendini Acquires In Ticketing
This week Ticketmaster announced the acquisition of Belgium-based Sherpa.be. They will be joining the Ticketmaster Belgium team that launched this year. San Francisco-based Vendini also announced their acquisition of In. Continue reading
Festicket Raises $2.7 Million For Int’l Expansion.
[UPDATED] UK based startup Festicket has closed a $2.7 million Series A funding round. Festicket which bills its self as "The Easiest Way To Book Your Next Festival Ticket" provides. Continue reading
Apple x Music: It’s Bigger Than Beats
Though Beats Music was a no show at yesterday's big Apple event there were some musical moments. U2 promoted their new album giveaway via iTunes and Justin Timberlake and Jimmy. Continue reading
A Musician’s Guide To Best Use Of Hashtags
By Hugh McIntyre from the Sonicbids Blog. Hashtags may seem like a silly bit of social media (and sometimes that’s exactly what they are), but they do serve an important. Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Onesheet / ArtistData Founder Is Secretly Building A New Service For Musicians
Serial entrepreneur Brenden Mulligan, best known for founding ArtistData (acquired in 2010 by Sonicbids) and Onesheet (acquired in 2013 by Bandzoogle), is working on a new service aimed at giving. Continue reading
Country Music Association To Launch Music Business Incubator
The Country Music Association is teaming up with The Nashville Entrepreneur Center to create what they are billing as the first music business accelerator. The music business accelerator is a 14-week. Continue reading
Deezer To Launch In U.S. Sept. 15th with Hi-Def Streaming Exclusively On Sonos
UPDATED: Deezer will launch in the U.S. on Monday September 15th exclusively on the Sonos in-house audio platform. The popular European based streaming music service is introducing itself to the. Continue reading
Spotify Launches Insights Data Blog, Eliot Van Buskirk Appointed ‘Data Storyteller’
Spotify has launched a blog to parse the mountains of music data it and its Echo Nest subsidiary collect, and hired veteran tech and music journalist Eliot Van Buskirk as "in-house. Continue reading
Apple Gives New U2 Album FREE To All iTunes Customers
UPDATED: U2 used today's Apple event to debut a single "The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)" live on stage and announce that their new album "Sons Of Innocence" was now available free. Continue reading
