YouTube Debuts Free Fan Finder, Updates YouTube Capture App
This week YouTube introduced Fan Finder featuring video ads that the viewer can skip after 5 second. The ads are currently being offered for free to channel owners and will. Continue reading
Russell Simmon’s All Def Digital Claims 3 Million YouTube Subscribers, 1 Billion Views
Russell Simmons should be pretty happy with the development of All Def Digital, the YouTube MultiChannel Network that includes numerous popular hip hop and sketch comedy channels. At this week's. Continue reading
PlayStation 4 Looks Great, Lets You Play Your Own Music In Games
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. People are interested in the new PlayStation 4 interface, so for starters, check the image below to see what Sony Music Unlimited looks like. Continue reading
Beatguide Founders Discuss The Business Of Electronic Music Event Discovery [VIDEO]
By Andrew Apanov of Dotted Music and Stand Above The Noise. SATN conducts an interview with Beatguide co-founders Tino Ehrich and Daniel Bock, taken at the WORD! Conference at Berlin. Continue reading
MySpace Laying Off 5% Of Staff
Improving traffic, a $20 million tv campaign and an association with Justin Timberlake brought some attention to the new, new MySpace, but apparently they did not lead to profits. This. Continue reading
Soundcloud Turns 5, Artists Share How It’s Changed Their Lives
This week Soundcloud is celebrating their 5th Anniversary. New stats from the music and sound platform show users posting 12 hours of audio every minute with 90% of tracks getting played. Continue reading
SF Music Tech Announces Next Summit May 20th [Special Hypebot Discount]
EXCLUSIVE: SF Music Tech, the must-attend gathering of the music and tech tribes, has just announced it's next edition – May 20th in San Francisco. In addition to being among. Continue reading
New Music Industry Beholden To Old-School Benchmarks – Upward Spiral Podcast #33
In episode 33 of the Upward Spiral, we talk with JJ Italiano, who is a manager, producer, and major label veteran. Italiano got his start managing Flobots, who rose to. Continue reading
Founder Panos Panay Exits Sonicbids
(UPDATED) Thirteen years after founding Sonicbids, Panos Panay is exiting the music gig and marketing platform. The Billboard Group acquired Sonicbids in January of this year for an estimated $15 million, and. Continue reading
YouTube’s Google+ Comments Currently A FAIL
YouTube's comments have long been one of those downsides of web communication. Google is supposedly trying to fix that by requiring Google+ logins to comment. But beyond the normal resistance. Continue reading