Lyrics Videos Offer An Effective Yet Low Cost Music Video Entry Point
Lyrics videos used to cluster around a continuum that ran from low budget art projects to fan videos. In recent years, top charting artists have used lyrics videos to produce. Continue reading
Mobile Adoption Drives Huge User Growth For Vevo
Music video service Vevo released a quarterly report this morning demonstrating user trends for their music videos, spanning from April – June 2012. The numbers are indeed impressive and include. Continue reading
Are Our Creative Lives To Be Ruled By “Algorithmic Copyright Cops”?
The recent tale of a musician's cover song videos of works in the public domain being taken down due to misidentification by YouTube's ContentID system is but one example of. Continue reading
Musician Posts Public Domain Songs, Major Labels Claim Ownership, YouTube Attacks Musician
By Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) of the essential tech site Techdirt. We've talked in the past about how YouTube's ContentID system fails at fair use and the public domain — whereby. Continue reading
Musicians: Most of Your Videos Aren’t Viewed Completely
Guest post by Brian Thompson of Thorny Bleeder Musicians… something to consider: Here's a quote taken from the latest Lefsetz Letter: "Less than 7% of music videos watched online are watched. Continue reading
Linkin Park Uses Fan Facebook Photos For Unique Interactive Music Video
If there’s one thing that today’s digital and participatory culture has shown us, it’s that people flock to where they can have in on the fun and involve themselves in. Continue reading
Grow Your Email List With YouTube Playlist Introductions
From the FanBridge Blog, part of the Fan Marketing Institute. For weekly lessons like this via email sign up here. Do you have a YouTube channel? Are you looking to. Continue reading
Creative Music Videos: Father Tiger, Super Stereo Surf & Linkin Park
Music videos using social media combined with mobile and web technologies continue to break new and entertaining ground. For a little Friday fun I present three music videos beginning with. Continue reading
Is PSY’s Gangnam Style The K-Pop Macarena Or The Next Party Rock Anthem?
K-Pop (Korean pop) superstar PSY is getting a lot of press in the States right now for the infectious song and dance video “Gangnam Style.” Featuring an easily learnable dance,. Continue reading
Broadcast Live Video To Your Facebook Friends With Ustream’s BFF iPhone App
On Tuesday Ustream released its Best Friends Forever Broadcast for Friends iPhone app. This new app allows you to broadcast live to your friends on Facebook and, after the broadcast. Continue reading
Handpicked YouTube Music Videos From Mutu.tv
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. YouTube has an API — that is to say, an application programming interface. Those let people build stuff on top of big. Continue reading
