A Post Holiday Compendium Of Recent Top Stories
Just in case you need a little help catching up with industry news as you climb out of your post-holiday stupor… >>> Even with growing digital sales it was a. Continue reading
Is It The End For Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing?
We’re considering dropping our daily briefing news round-up in favor of more short news stories. Part of the motivation is to report things as fast as we find out about. Continue reading
Is Somethng Rotten At Apple?
Early last week Apple’s iTunes seemed to be suffering from too much of a good thing. Post holiday shoppers overwhelmed the download store causing slowdowns and error messages. By week’s. Continue reading
Three Ad Supported P2P’s To Debut. Who Cares?
Forbes has taken an in depth look at three legal ad supported P2P’s set to debut in the coming months – Qtrax, Spiral Frog and Mashboxx. Each company has their. Continue reading
Two Top Execs Exit Digital Music Group
Publicly traded Digital Music Group, a digital distributor of music and video announced today that COO Anders Brown and VP of Development Richard Rees have resigned their respective positions. Brown. Continue reading
iTunes Overwhelmed By 4X Increase On Christmas
Consumers with new iPods and gift cards overwhelmed Apple’s iTunes music store over the holiday prompting error messages and slowdowns of 20 minutes or more for downloads. Upset customers began. Continue reading
2007 Will Be The Year Of The MP3
The signs are all pointing in one direction. eMusic is second only to iTunes. The major labels are experimenting with the format with increasing frequency. InSound and other indie download. Continue reading
The Bloggers Z-List Meme
Because I thought you might have a little extra time over the holidays and because we music marketers like anything viral. Below is the The Z-List meme an expanding list. Continue reading
Elvis on Ed Sullivan Revisited
Music on TV has always been a powerful combination. But seldom has a performers appearances on a single TV show had more impact than Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show. . Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Friday December 22nd, 2006
>>> Sony BMG to pay another $4.25 million to settle DRM/rootkit lawsuit with another 39 states. (ZDNet) >>> University of Edinburgh researchers are developing a "personal DJ" which would offer. Continue reading