Kevin Spacey On Stopping Piracy: Give The Fans What They Want

Kevin Spacey gave a speech at the International Television Festival in Edinburgh late last month with a big focus on the implications of Netflix's "House of Cards" for the tv. Continue reading

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How To Make The Most Of Your Music On Spotify

If your music is on Spotify you can choose to take a passive approach and simply make it available to people who seek it out. But if you want to. Continue reading

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Last Week’s Most Read Hypebot Posts

EDM Fans vs. Other Music Fans [STUDY + ANALYSIS] Steve Aoki's Manager On Getting Famous Online Two Smash Songs Inspired By Past Hits Get Very Different Treatment  Pandora Will Dominate. Continue reading

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Twitter Forefronts Conversations, Tips Ecommerce Plan That Could Sell More Music

Wednesday Twitter introduced "conversations," a new way of displaying the first tweets of a discussion in your home feed. This week Twitter's new Chief of Commerce, Nathan Hubbard, also discussed. Continue reading

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Marketing Your Music Through Your Local Library

NPR recently ran a feature about local public libraries building streamable and downloadable collections of digital music from local musicians. It's a powerful way for libraries to serve members of. Continue reading

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Okkervil River Looks Back With 8-Bit Game For ‘The Silver Gymnasium’

With the debut of "The Silver Gymnasium" right around the bend, Okkervil River turned to frontman Will Sheff's childhood for creative marketing inspiration that's connected to their music. Sheff worked. Continue reading

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New On Hypebot’s Jobs Board: Tixr Internship, CD Baby Web Manager & More

New on Hypebot's Music Industry Jobs Board is a social media and marketing internship at music tech startup Tixr, a job opening for a web product manager at CDBaby.  There. Continue reading

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Electrospective App Debuts On Spotify Spotlighting Over 50 Years Of Electronic Music

Electrospective launched last summer featuring electronic music back to 1958 from EMI, Virgin, Parlophone and Mute. It's been a fairly low key project but yesterday they raised their profile with. Continue reading

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FYF Fest Founder Sean Carlson On The Importance Of The Fan Experience

FYF Fest, originally the Fuck Yeah Fest, hit ten this year with an impressive if irregular past and the widespread view that FYF had grown up. Prior to last weekend's. Continue reading

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Beatguide, GigDropper and Makelight Are Finalists For Red Bull Amplifier

Red Bull Amplifier was announced earlier this year as a music tech accelerator. But instead of investing for equity, Red Bull is making their networks and marketing resources available to. Continue reading

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Future of Music Coalition Announces 2013 Summit: Washington, DC, October 28-29

Future of Music Coalition is holding its annual gathering, the Future of Music Summit 2013, in Washington, DC in late October. Described as the "only conference that makes the connection. Continue reading

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