GoPro Video Camera Maker Responds To Musicians with HERO3+ Black Edition/Music
We discuss video quite a bit at Hypebot, especially in the form of creative videos, software and services, but we rarely discuss hardware. However an effort by GoPro to better. Continue reading
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Shares What He Really Thinks Of Beats Music
"Some celebrity brand" "It's a competitor, for sure, but my way of looking at it is, if it gets people to understand the value of streaming, it is ultimately good,". Continue reading
Beats Music Stops Adding New Users, Blames Flood Of Interest
The just launched and much publicized Beats Music service hit a snag yesterday afternoon when it was forced to stop adding new users. "Due to the extremely high volume of. Continue reading
Rap Genius Cuts Universal Publishing Group Deal: “We’ll lend them a wheelbarrow…”
It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride for RapGenius. After quickly becoming a hot site and a VC darling, a majorr muysic publishing trade group put them at. Continue reading
Want To Live Stream Your Music Concert? Here’s An Overview Of Options
One of the most difficult aspects of writing about tech startups is that when a concept makes sense and gets funded, all sorts of other companies will get in the. Continue reading
Beats Music: Crowded Market Gains New Rival
Author's Note: This essay was published almost a year ago. The goal was to predict what the team at project Daisy, now called Beats Music, would need achieve in order. Continue reading
Beats Is All About Playlists. Here Is The Team That Creates Them
Beats Music, which launched yesterday, is designed to be different. In addition to a massive library of tracks, Beats delivers palylists – both curated and computer generated – that aim. Continue reading
Facebook Reduces Fan Page Text Update Distribution, Gives Page Owners Advice
Facebook has announced that they are tweaking their newsfeed a bit by changing how they handle text status updates. They've found that text status updates from friends lead to more. Continue reading
Beats Antique Take Their Fans On A Hero’s Journey
Beats Antique's recent release, "A Thousand Faces – Act 1," draws on the work of Joseph Campbell and the concept of the hero's journey. Lee Martin built on that work. Continue reading
Can Big Data Help Artists Make Smarter Choices?
Subcribe to the Upward Spiral podcast in iTunes, play recent shows on SoundCloud, or follow us on Twitter. In this episode of the Upward Spiral, a music business podcast, we. Continue reading
Next Big Sound Analyzes 2013 Music Data
A special report from Next Big Sound. Looking at the online music industry data for 2013 in aggregate across sources ranging from the major social networks, streaming services, sales figures,. Continue reading
