Music Beats All Mobile App Categories As Time In App Increases 79%

Localytics, an app analytics and marketing company, crunches a lot of numbers. They took stats from the last year and looked at "time in app" as a metric for comparing. Continue reading

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Live Nation’s Ticketmaster Acquires Eventjoy D.I.Y. Ticketing Platform

Live Nation's Ticketmaster has acquired mobile-based DIY ticketing platform, Eventjoy for an undisclosed sum. The move will help the ticketing giant compete with Eventbrite in the growing non-traditional venue and event. Continue reading

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Linkfire: “Smart Links For Music Marketing”

Linkfire is a promising new service that creates "smart links for music marketing." Smart links allow you to use one link that can direct people to a specific url based. Continue reading

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FRIDAY NEWS BRIEF: Spotify’s Free Problem, Facebook Adds Trending, Rdio, Smule, FCC, Mindie & More

FRIDAY 1.17.2013 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web   CLICK HERE Updated Continuously @ Hypebot's More News Tab

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Vine Opens Up For The Web With Public User Profiles and Private Vine Socializing

On Friday, Vine took another step towards becoming a browsable open web site with the official introduction of web-accessible user profiles. For registered Vine users, you now have a web-based. Continue reading

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Instagram More Popular Than Twitter On Mobile In 2013, Says Nielson

UPDATED: New Nielson stats show that Instagram is more popular with mobile users than Twitter – 32M vs. 30.8M. That puts Instagram at #7 in the most popular smartphone apps. Continue reading

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Sidestep Takes The Lead With Dedicated Mobile Merch App

Sidestep is a new mobile app to make it easy for fans to get music merch via their smartphone with the option of picking it up at the show or. Continue reading

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Basic Truths: “The Road Is Fuckin’ Hard”

Lyle McKeany shares his take on touring based on his experience with major label act Pressure 4-5. His time on the road was relatively short but, as he points out,. Continue reading

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Live Nation Labs Acquires Dating App Meexo

Live Nation Labs, the concert and ticketing giant's digital arm created with the aquisiton of Big Champagne, has done an acquire/hire of it's own – dating and social app Meexo.. Continue reading

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Beatguide Founders Discuss The Business Of Electronic Music Event Discovery [VIDEO]

By Andrew Apanov of Dotted Music and Stand Above The Noise. SATN conducts an interview with Beatguide co-founders Tino Ehrich and Daniel Bock, taken at the WORD! Conference at Berlin. Continue reading

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