YouTube Music Key Streaming Service Finally Launches – Free & Paid
[UPDATED] The long promised YouTube music service finally launched today. Based on the freemium model. YouTube Music Key comes in two parts. The free version, for now at least, attempts. Continue reading
Grooveshark Fires Back After Spotify CEO Calls Them A “Pirate Service”
The subject of multiple lawsuits, Grooveshark has long been music streaming's bad boy; and that extends to a willingness to fight back when someone throws a punch. That certainly was this. Continue reading
The Rap Industry Needs SMS Marketing
By Max Porter at CallFire. With less than 10 percent of Facebook posts, and possibly less tweets, ever viewed, text messages have an open rate estimated at 98 percent and 90 percent texts are read. Continue reading
#SFMusicTech Summit | Recap & Remarks
Let's start by admitting that I'm about to break several basic rules of journalism. While there's reporting in this piece, I am also a newly minted fan of SF Music. Continue reading
How to Legally Use Music to Enhance YouTube Videos
When the music industry and the law are placed in the same sentence, it is usually accompanied with the word "unfair." It began in the late 90s with illegal file. Continue reading
Apple Used Luxembourg To Dodge Taxes On Billions In iTunes Revenue
Two-thirds of the money Apple’s iTunes collects outside of North America is being funneled through iTunes Sàrla, a Luxembourg holding company that is charhed no tax thanks to special agreement signed. Continue reading
audiomachine: Remixed Now Available on CD Baby
audiomachine, a boutique motion picture advertising music production collective, was approached by demanding consumers to release their fan-proclaimed "epic" trailer music commercially, and as a result, audiomachine: Remixed happened. To add. Continue reading
The New Bandcamp Subscription Feature And Why It Won’t Work [Bobby Owsinski]
By Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Indie music aggregator Bandcamp recently launched a new feature that enables fans to subscribe to its artists for a fixed amount per year (like the $32. Continue reading
$2 Billion and Counting: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Speaks Out On Taylor Swift, 3 Big Myths & More
By Spotify CEO Daniel Ek. Taylor Swift is absolutely right: music is art, art has real value, and artists deserve to be paid for it. We started Spotify because we love. Continue reading
