Alex Day & The Future Of The Music Industry
YouTube star Alex Day is back in the news with the simultaneous release of three singles. Day initially drew attention on YouTube with a variety of entertaining videos that allowed. Continue reading
How To Release Music On Twitter – A Reunited Blur Does It Right
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Yes, Twitter is a ridiculously-constrained communications medium — a holdover from the dumb-phone days when text could only be sent from phone. Continue reading
Lady Gaga’s Manager Talks Music Tech, Social Media, And International Markets [WATCH]
Troy Carter, renowned music manager behind Lady Gaga and CEO of the management firm Atom Factory, was the keynote interview at the Music Matters conference in Singapore a few weeks. Continue reading
Berklee College Wins Attention With Social Media
Berklee College of Music is a well-known educational institution with both a physical campus in Boston and an online school. Berklee has been noted for its use of social media. Continue reading
Changes: Facebook Hides Content, Pinterest Pins Soundcloud, iTunes Changes Cover Art Size
As certain web services become a key part of our lives in the music industry, seemingly small changes take on greater importance. A glitch at Facebook reminds us that those. Continue reading
First Tweets, Now Pins – SoundCloud “Unmutes” Pinterest
Keeping the momentum going from last week’s “unmuting” of Twitter, SoundCloud has announced that sounds can now be "pinned" on Pinterest. Doing so will launch the SoundCloud HTML5 widget with. Continue reading
Build Your Fanbase Through Gamification
Building your fanbase through gamification is not about being a player or playing your fans, though some may approach it in that manner. Gamification is about bringing game-like behaviors into. Continue reading
Google+ Hangouts Add YouTube Playlists For Intimate Music Parties
Google+ continues its slow transformation into what is hoped to be a social media powerhouse with the addition of YouTube playlist parties to Google+ Hangouts. One of the potentially more. Continue reading
Hypebot Presents The Upward Spiral Podcast Episode 3 [LISTEN]
Hypebot presents the third episode of The Upward Spiral Podcast, which features Kyle Bylin of Live Nation Labs (and former Hypebot Editor), music industry consultant Jason Spitz (Former Director of Marketing at Topspin), and Hypebot's Hisham Dahud (also of Fame House).. Continue reading
Promote Your Live Music Events With Epilogger
Having easily accessible archives of past concerts, including social media conversations, is a great way to let old fans reminisce and new fans catch the bug. Epilogger is emerging as. Continue reading
Checkthis: Instagram For Social Publishing
Checkthis is a site that allows users to create visually appealing one-off and single-purpose web content, created with the hopes of finding a middle ground between people who desire to. Continue reading
