Winners Of 2012 European Border Breaker Awards
The winners of the 2012 European Border Breakers Awards, celebrating the top new talents in European pop music, were announced today by Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism. Continue reading
Vimeo Teams With Audiosocket, Free Music Archive For Video Music Store
Vimeo's recently launched Music Store provides free music for noncommercial videos, low-cost tracks ($1.99) for use on personal videos and commercially priced tracks ($98.00) for commercial use. It's a service. Continue reading
The Music Industry Remembers Steve Jobs
(UPDATED) Steve Jobs changed the music business forever. He pushed labels towards digital and forced them to embrace single track sales. By creating amazingly designed and integrated delivery platforms and. Continue reading
Soundcloud Suffers Two Days Of Attacks, Outages
(UPDATED) Hugely popular "sound platform" Soundcloud has fallen victim to a DDoS attack and service outage that began on Monday. "Very sorry for the current downtime," the company told users. Continue reading
AM BRIEF: Steve Jobs, Univision vs. Dar.fm, PledgeMusic, Spotify + Western Digital & More
(UPDATED) Overnight a usually cynical music business shared their hearfelt reactions to the loss of Steve Jobs, a man who unquestionably changed music forever. As Ben Sisario wrote in the. Continue reading
Xbox Live Ups It’s Music Game With Vevo, iHeartRadio
The industry has talked about "you music, where you want, whenever you want" for several years now. If we can deliver that, the logic goes, piracy becomes less attractive. That. Continue reading
Hypebot Readers Get In Free To NARM ‘Anatomy Of A Sponsorship Deal’ Webinar Thursday
One of the most highly rated panels of the 2011 NARM Convention, "Anatomy Of A Sponsorship Deal" is returning as a webinar this Thursday, and thanks to NARM, Hypebot readers. Continue reading
A Guy Named Brian Camelio Wants A Cut Of Your Fan Funded Project
(UPDATED) On February 8, 2011, ex-Journey studio musician and record producer Brian Camelio was awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,885,887 – "Methods and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work". Continue reading
3 Major Reasons To Drive Fans To Your Website Instead Of Facebook & Social Media
(UPDATED) By Chris Vinson, the founder and CTO of musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. Do I really need a website for my music? With Facebook, Twitter, and all the. Continue reading
