Create MPEE3’s With Guitar Pee Urinal [VIDEO]
In what is either a brilliant piece of marketing or an indicator of just how far you have to go to get people to read music's top trade magazine these. Continue reading
Amanda Palmer Passes $1.12 Million With Hours Left, Plans “Party On The Internet” Tonight
Amanda Palmer had raised $1,123,971 on Kickstarter as of 4PM ET on Thursday from 23,541 backers. The campaign runs until 11.59 PM EDT tonight. After several days of major media. Continue reading
Is It A Music Video Or A Video Of Music?
Why was the music video born? The same reason bands trying to create a presence and fit in on Pintrest and use Facebook's timeline, music goes where the people are.. Continue reading
Recreating Team Indie: Readymade’s Radical New Model [VIDEO]
Part 2 of The Hypebot Session @ NARM's Music Biz 2012 offered an inside look at the radical new model for independent labels created by Brendan Benson and Emily White. Continue reading
Indie Artist Website Review Grand Prize Winner: Megan Lynch [VIDEO]
After receiving dozens of entries for the Hypebot/Bandzoogle Video Website Review Contest, we selected 5 winners, with one of those winners receiving a Grand Prize of 1 year of Bandzoogle. Continue reading
PlayFi Lets Bands Play Shows Online & Sell Tickets
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. We’ve just received word of a promising-looking new online music outfit out of Australia whose main premise is to help bands sell. Continue reading
Monetizing Music Videos & Live Shows With Evinar & Gyroskope
Both Evinar and Gyroskope are services that musicians can use to monetize streaming video. Evinar focuses on livestreaming via Facebook while Gyroskope features videos for which customers pay to stream. Continue reading
WEEEKEND FUN: Jack Black’s Tenacious D Reunite, Search For A New Roadie
From the lighter side of the music business: Can a band that’s "more talented than the Beatles, Stones, and Zeppelin combined" be over? The fans (at least one + their. Continue reading
Look Sessions Austin: 27 Bands Performing In A Hotel Room During SXSW
Look Sessions is a series of stripped down live performances envisioned and videotaped by musician/media artist Andrea Alseri. Alseri emphasizes an aesthetic and practical approach she terms "One Mic, One. Continue reading
Creative Music Marketing: The Band Perry, Leftover Salmon, iamamiwhoami, Clown & Sunset, Metric
Many of my creative music marketing posts have focused on projects that weren't necessarily intended for promotional purposes but had marketing elements built into the work whether it was a. Continue reading
Socialcam Battles Viddy For Mobile Video Sharing Supremacy
Since the billion dollar acquisition of Instagram by Facebook, the phrase "Instragram for Video" has taken on an added meaning related to expensive mergers. However, for music marketing, the mobile. Continue reading
