atVenu Raises $1.1 Million Seed Round For Event Merchandise Sales
(UPDATED) Music and event merchandise sales an management platform atVenu has raised $1.1 million in a seed funding round led by Montreal based Real Ventures and included private investors from. Continue reading
Music PR Platform StoryAmp Offers FREE PR Campaigns To 20 Bands Touring To Austin In March
Have you mortgaged your house to get to Austin, Texas in March? Or have you scraped together a tour across the country to get to or from the musical mecca. Continue reading
YouTube News: Will.i.am, Tiesto, Pitbull, Courtney Love, Ministry of Sound
YouTube Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs) are both enabling content creators to make more money than they could on their own while causing YouTube stars to question if it's enough. However they. Continue reading
Former Rhapsody And Slacker Product Execs Discuss Mainstream Potential Of Beats Music
Subcribe to the Upward Spiral podcast in iTunes, play recent shows on SoundCloud, or follow us on Twitter. When news broke that Beats Music would be developing a music service,. Continue reading
Midem Hack Day 2014 Winner: DJ Spotify
18 projects were built over the last 48 hours at Midem Hack Day 2014 and the participants voted DJ Spotify the winner. The hack gives users the ability to play. Continue reading
Midem Announces Midemlab 2014 Winners
On Monday, Midem announced the winners of three Innovation Factory competitions – Midemlab, Music Hack Day & Music Marketing - designed to encourage innovation in the music and music tech space. First. Continue reading
Deezer Is Coming To America: Hires U.S. CEO
In the latest sign that Deezer will launch in America this year, the French based music streaming service has hires a U.S. CEO. Tyler Goldman, the former chief of now defunct. Continue reading
Lyor Cohen’s 300 To Use Big Data As A&R Early Alert System With Twitter Deal
This weekend Lyor Cohen revealed more about 300 at Midem where he gave a keynote interview with Tom Silverman. The primary new information seemed to be the Twitter deal for. Continue reading
18 Hacks From Music Tech’s Best Created At Midem Music Hack Day 2014
25 of the best that music tech has to offer just spent 48 hours ignoring the delights of the French Riviera locked in room creating music hacks at Midem Music. Continue reading
The Week In Music Commentary
Upward Spiral: Why Having To Constantly Hustle Is Bad For Artists Bruce Houghton: A Personal Thank-You To Pete Seeger Will Major Music Publishers Allow Last.fm To Go YouTube Only? I. Continue reading
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
Topspin Cuts Staff 44% SoundCloud Launches New Visual Player and Adds $60 Million New Funding Independent Music Wins 50% Of 2014 Grammys Prince Sues Fans For $22 Million Then Drops. Continue reading
