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
Kickstarter Funds New Band Forming Now Via YouTube Auditions
Cobus Potgieter, a YouTube drummer who says he's received over a hundred million views for his videos playing along with well-known recordings, is funding My YouTube Band Project (MYBP) via. Continue reading
Fantasy Sports For The Music Industry: TastemakerX Launches Social Music Discovery Game
Think you have an eye for talent? Can you spot the next big thing before anyone else can? Now you can live your dreams of being an A&R executive with. Continue reading
Bandcamp’s Discoverinator Is Not Music Discovery
Music discovery is hard. It's hard to make the experience enjoyable, but more importantly, it's hard getting the general public interested in spending the time to flip through music. Bandcamp. Continue reading
2 Social Media Power Tools: FanMix & Mingly
Our recent discussion of Engagio led to other tools designed to organize one's social media conversations. FanMix is related to Engagio in that it manages one's conversations across social media. Continue reading
Want To “Borrow” Another Band’s Fans? ReverbNation Enables Facebook Fan Targeting
ReverbNation has added a new update to their PROMOTE IT product – a platform that simplifies and adds a layer of analytics to Facebook advertising for artists, labels and promoters.. Continue reading
The Value of Fans Sharing Brand Messaging: Insights Into Social Currency [CASE STUDY]
Guest post by Eric Hahn, Fame House Marketing Mgr. We’ve all seen how direct-to-fan principles have been successful for established artists, but not so much for artists that don't yet. Continue reading