Shazam Drives $300 Million A Year In iTunes, AmazonMP3 Sales
Dozens of startups are searching for the holy grail of music discovery leading to purchase and many thousands of artists and labels are hoping they'll find it. Other than perhaps. Continue reading
YouTube’s Top Channels Mostly Feature Music
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Last week, I ran into Billboard senior branding correspondent Andrew Hampp at the Digital Media Wire Music awards dinner (I was on a panel. Continue reading
Caught In Time: The Music Industry’s Struggle To Adapt
Guest post by Justin Stansbury (@twentyeyes138) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Not too long ago, I was discussing with a friend of mine what we felt our. Continue reading
Instrumachines And Live Electronic Music From The Past To The Future
By Bryan Kim (@freshbreakfast), Director of Business Development at Tracks.by, from his personal blog. This past summer, on the way to see headlining act Girl Talk, I accidentally stumbled upon. Continue reading
How To Use Spotify & Sonos From Behind A Firewall
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Apparently, the Symantec Norton 360 security software can block Spotify from working, even if you don’t monkey around with the default settings. In case. Continue reading
Major U.S. ISPs Launch Anti-Piracy System: ‘6 Strikes And We’ll Throttle You’
A long promised U.S. Copyright Alert System (CAS) finally went live earlier today. Starting with Comcast and followed by AT&T, Cablevision,Time Warner, and Verizon later this week, major ISP's will. Continue reading
3 Trends Shaping The Future Of Product Development
Guest post by Max Engel (@8bitkid) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Content providers are at a crossroads in the evolution of narratives online. Users are increasingly accessing. Continue reading
Tunezy’s New Fan Wishlists Connect Musicians And Fans Through Tangible Experiences
Last week Tunezy announced the introduction of Fan Wishlists that provide a structured means for musicians to identify fan experiences, i.e. direct interactions between fan and artist, that can then. Continue reading
Kevin Arnold Named Co-Chair Of NARM’s digitalmusic.org
Kevin Arnold has been named co-chair of digitalmusic.org, the digital arm of music business trade group NARM. Arnold, currently the EVP and Senior Advisor to the Global Digital Business Group. Continue reading