Could Flickr Become The Next Big Social Network For Musicians?
Yesterday's news that Yahoo is buying Tumblr is certainly big for musicians given the widespread usage of Tumblr for music blogs often as an adjunct to an official website. But. Continue reading
Please Find Lost Music And Return It Via The Web
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. The Legendary 'Disco Indian Stories' tape is not online and nobody seems to know where it is. It’s easy to get the impression these. Continue reading
New Report: Making Freemium Music Services Pay
A new free report from MIDiA Consulting by Mark Mulligan takes a look at some of the challenges facing freemium web services including Pandora, Spotify and Deezer. From "free being. Continue reading
Spotify Adds Most Viral & Played Charts, Track Counts
The rollout began several days ago, but now it's official: Spotify has added song play counts to every artist's top tracks, showing their total number of global plays since October. Continue reading
Lively Launches Concert Recording & Sales App
Launching today, concert recording and sales app Lively offers a simple way to record and sell live recordings immediately after the show. Available for Android and iOS, Lively is led. Continue reading
Potential Of Direct-To-Fan Realized By Few Bands
By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Direct-to-fan marketing tools and services continue to hold a lot of promise. They enable artists to. Continue reading
The Pros And The Cons Of Google Play Music All Access Subscription
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. I set out this morning to built a chart listing the various features of the major music subscription services: Rdio, Rhapsody, Spotify, and we. Continue reading
Soundhalo Turns Live Concert Videos Into Impulse Buys During The Show
Soundhalo is a brand new service for taking live concert video recordings and transforming them into mixed single song videos for immediate sale. It's an interesting hybrid that's currently being. Continue reading
Spotify Adapts Audio Formats To Listening Platforms
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Recently, CNET reported on an extension for Google’s Chrome web browser that let people scrape songs off of Spotify’s web player, for free, and. Continue reading
The Week In Music Commentary
David Hahn Explains Why The Internet Is A Bad Place To Discover Music Kyle Bylin Asks Can Pandora Find A Business Model That Works? Extremely Decent Video: A Comedic (And. Continue reading
