Highlights From The Recording Academy’s Independent’s Day Conference
Last Saturday in Philadelphia, the local chapter of The Recording Academy held a one-day conference geared towards "entrepreneurship for the music-maker" appropriately named "Independent's Day." Panels consisted of representatives from. Continue reading
More Than 50 Million Fake Facebook Accounts Are Liking Pages
Perhaps one of the most widely used metric for artists and brands these days to demonstrate how popular they are among the public is to boast the number of Facebook. Continue reading
CrowdStream Delivers At-Event Fan Engagement For Artists
New York-based CrowdStream is a mobile app that allows concert attendees to connect with fans and artists during an event. The free iOS and Android app has already seen success. Continue reading
What Could You Teach Your Fans?
This guest post is by Bob Baker of www.TheBuzzFactor.com I know what you're thinking … "I'm an artist. I'm a performer. Why should I bother thinking about what I can. Continue reading
Pinterest Beats Twitter, StumbleUpon & Bing For Referral Traffic
(UPDATED) As Pinterest continues to grow, more and more brands and businesses are paying attention – and for good reason. The online sharing service Shareaholic recently released data showing that. Continue reading
Facebook Adds Spotify Music Sharing Feature To Artist Fan Pages
Facebook keeps rolling out the changes, and in addition those that affect all uses, new features are starting to appear on the fan pages of artists on Spotify. In particular,. Continue reading
Would Fans Pay For Better Sound On YouTube?
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. A Twitter person recently said that they would pay for a premium version of Twitter. We can’t remember who it was. Sorry,. Continue reading
The Definitive Guide To Facebook For Musicians
By Bryan Kim (@freshbreakfast), Dr. of Biz Dev at Tracksby. He personally admins 100+ musician Facebook Pages with a combined following of 35M fans and blogs at Trackswell. Facebook is. Continue reading
Music Marketing With Twitter Hashtags From Plan B Tracks To GoGirls Chats
Twitter hashtags are increasingly used to connect communities and focus conversations on Twitter and that includes musicians and music fans. Rapper Plan B is using hashtags in on and offline. Continue reading
Learning From Frank Ocean
Guest post by Ethan Schiff, an artist manager working in Boston and New York. Follow him at @ethanschiff and ethan-schiff.com. I assume most of you have heard of Frank Ocean. Continue reading
Karmaloop Teams With Twitter For Unique Tweet-To-Tee Campaign
The streetwear fashion site Karmaloop.com has been inspiring its Twitter fans to get creative and nominate tweets that deserve to be emblazoned on a t-shirt and sold as part of. Continue reading
