Finding The One Key Metric That Matters For Your Career As A Musician
From time to time concepts and approaches from the world of tech startups have relevance to indie and DIY musicians. Recently the concept of "One Key Metric" has been making. Continue reading
Facebook Now Wants To Share Music Recommendations With You
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. I like Yo La Tengo, but I have never “Liked” Yo La Tengo on Facebook. Still, Facebook has determined that I would be interested. Continue reading
Webdoc Relaunches As Urturn: Social Platform For Direct To Fan Campaigns #MIDEM
This weekend at midem 2013, creative platform Webdoc relaunched as Urturn with a focus on "Expressions." By offering ways to create content on the web bound by specific limits, Urturn. Continue reading
Midemlab Names Music Tech’s Hottest Startups: InstruMagic, Jamplify And StageIt #MIDEM
From Cannes by Stuart Dredge of UK consultancy and blog Music Ally. 30 startups have been pitching at the Midemlab startups contest this year at Midem, with the winners announced. Continue reading
Indie Labels “In Shock” Over MySpace “Free Ride” Licensing Policy #MIDEM
From Cannes by Stuart Dredge of UK consultancy and blog Music Ally. The owners of Myspace’s ears will have been burning this morning, during a Midem press conference at which. Continue reading
Can Short Video Apps Like Strum, Viddy, VJAM, Snapchat & Vine Be Used For Music Marketing?
Though it's easy to be attracted to every shiny new mobile app that comes down the pike, and I'm certainly prey to such Jackdaw thinking, most photo apps are only. Continue reading
DIY Rapper Kellee Maize On Building Her Brand With SEO, P2P & Creative Commons Releases
Kellee Maize is a Pittsburgh-based rapper who has the top spot on Google for "female rapper" and has topped both Amazon's free albums chart and held the honor of most. Continue reading
Facebook Mobile: It’s Time To Take It Seriously
This infographic created by Qwaya offers a visualization of data from Facebook, Nielsen, and comScore that shows how much Facebook and social media usage has grown on mobile. The stats. Continue reading
Myspace Allegedly Hosting Unlicensed Indie Music, Merlin Prepares Legal Response
Indie music rights licensor Merlin says they have discovered unlicensed music by labels they represent on the new Myspace. Myspace says users must have posted it and they're happy to. Continue reading
