Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. & Indie Music
Vinyl Crunch Worsens For Indie Labels: Time For A Record Press Kickstarter? Rormix Offers Indie Musicians A Mobile Platform For Promoting Music Videos How To Get Press For Your Band. Continue reading
Last Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
Sony's Major Label Shenanigans Revealed By American Idol Lawsuit 5 Lessons For The Music Industry From Weird Al Shawn Mendes: From 6 Second Vine Videos To #1 Can Indie Music. Continue reading
The Week In Music Commentary
Music Magazines Move To Apps With Mixed Results Top Pandora Execs Donate To Anti-Gay, Anti-Abortion Congressmen Politics of EDM: Festival Bans Plains Indian Warbonnets, Sniffer Dogs Not So Easy To. Continue reading
MusicThinkTank Weekly Recap: Why Email Is Still a Vital Marketing Tool for Musicians & More
Dave Cool | Why Email Newsletters Are Still a Vital Marketing Tool for Musicians Thomas Honeyman | How Art Became Advertising Lukas Camenzind | What I Learned About Songwriting From Being. Continue reading
Jody Gerson Exits Sony/ATV To Become CEO Of Universal Music Publishing
Jody Gerson has been named the Chairman and CEO the Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), effective January 1, 2015. Gerson, who currently serves as Co-President of Sony/ATV Publishing, will be. Continue reading
Twitch Debuts Live Streaming Music Concerts, Twitch Broadcasters Can Play Host
Twitch is an odd seeming thing, a platform primarily for live streaming video gameplay, that is incredibly popular. Since at least May various reports have it that Google is buying. Continue reading
Exec In Charge Of Launching YouTube Music Service Exits For Spotify
YouTube's executive for consumer products, Shiva Rajaraman (pictured left), has exited the Googleplex for Spotify. One of Rajaraman's chief responsibilities in recent months has been YouTube's yet to launch subscription music service.. Continue reading
Viral Music Videos Have Huge Impact On Sales [CHART]
Although many factors can drive song sales, a new Nielson study suggests that viral videos play an increasing role – sometimes dramatically. Sales of Katy Perry’s “Peacock” spiked 64% within. Continue reading
Facebook Goes Down, Musicians Tremble…
UPDATE 4 12:37– Facebook went offline just before Noon on Friday, but was back up 40 minutes later. No reason for the outage has been given, so far; but it. Continue reading
Beats On Their $3 Billion Sale: “There’s a new instrument in the Apple family.”
Apple has finalized its $3 billion deal to purchased Beats. To announce that the two companies are now one, both exchanged welcome announcements online. Apple used theirs to heap praise. Continue reading
