Rhapsody Expands To Latin America, Europe With Major Telefónica Deal
(UPDATED) Spotify and Rdio may get most of the press, but Rhapsody has been a player in streaming music since 2001 – long before these two startups were founded. Today,. Continue reading
Tunecore Announces $330M In Artists Payments
TuneCore has paid out more than $330 million to artists since the company launched the business in 2006, according to stats shared by the digital music distributor. TuneCore Artist earnings. Continue reading
It Takes More Than Metrics To Understand A Musician’s Audience
In a new study by Microsoft researcher Nancy K. Baym, the author discusses musicians, music companies and their use of metrics. She interviewed a number of musicians and business people. Continue reading
It’s Not Too Late To Enter Your Music Tech Startup In SXSW Accelerator 2014
The deadline is just over 3 weeks away, but it's not too late to showcase your music tech startup, product or new service at SXSW Accelerator 2014. The event takes. Continue reading
F# Debuts Sponsored Music Player and Serve Yourself Spotify-Powered Ad Experiences
F#, a fairly new "digital music advertising" firm, has done a lot of interesting work connecting brands and music often through innovative use of Spotify playlists. Today they're releasing some. Continue reading
Hypebot Hosts Our Second LA Music Tech Meetup
Hypebot presents our second Los Angeles meetup for readers to network with their peers. You are are invited to gather for drinks on October 23, 2013 from 7:00 to 10:00pm. Continue reading
4 Tips For Music Marketing With Email Newsletters
As musicians and music marketers build their lists of consenting recipients, from fans to friendly contacts, a number of approaches are taken. Some simply contact their list with special announcements.. Continue reading
Squarespace Adds Audio Collections For Musicians To Its Full-Featured Site Platform
Squarespace is a website-building and hosting platform with beautiful templates, excellent customer service and a variety of features including blogging and digital/physical ecommerce. They recently announced Audio Collections, the first. Continue reading
Yahoo Acquihires Troy Carter’s Bread
Bread, aka bre.ad, was an url shortener that served you an ad between the click on the shortened url and your destination. We're discussing this because Troy Carter, aka Lady. Continue reading
David Byrne Takes A Sharp Yet Despairing Look At Spotify, Streaming Music and Musicians
Late last week David Byrne wrote a lengthy column for The Guardian in which he discussed streaming music, Spotify, the music industry, artist careers and his own choice of pulling. Continue reading
