AM NEWS: More On MySpace, Rhapsody Plans, Village Voice On Tumblr, HMV, Virgin + Spotify & More
Deatils of the post-fire sale MySpace are emerging including a major involvement by Justin Timberlake as investor and creative driver. Looking back, this chart looks at the rise and fall. Continue reading
Read MySpace CEO Mike Jones’ Goodbye Email To His Staff
MySpace CEO Mike Jones sent an email to his staff of 400 today to announce the sale of the company to Specific Media. In the letter, Jones acknowledged that staff. Continue reading
MySpace Sold To Ad Network Specific Media For Just $35 Million
MySpace has been sold to ad network Specific Media for a reported $35 million. News Corp, which paid $580 million for MySpace in 2006, had hoped to get as much. Continue reading
Official MySpace Sale Announcement Press Release [Full Text]
Los Angeles, Calif. — June 29, 2011 – Specific Media, a digital media company, today announced it has acquired Myspace from News Corporation. As part of the agreement, News Corporation. Continue reading
Online Music Licensing Resources
Artists are always looking to get more people to listen to their music. One way to get more exposure is through licensing your music for TV, film, advertising, etc. What. Continue reading
Guess What State Gets The Most Concerts? You’ll Be Surprised By This SeatGeek Survey
Nevada, D,C. and Missouri have the most concerts per capita according to a new survey based on secondary ticketing data by ticket search site SeatGeek. Regionally, the South has the. Continue reading
CD Baby Founder Derek Sivers Releases Book: “Anything You Want”
Friend of independent music and CD Baby founder Derek Sivers released his first book today, Anything You Want – 40 Lessons In Being An Entrepeneur on Seth Godin's new Amazon. Continue reading
Top 10 Musicians Sharing Content On Facebook Drive 80 Million Pageviews
Visibli, creators of an "Engagement Bar" which deploys a customizable upper screen frame for Visibli-altered links served on social media sites like Twitter, has released a report looking at the. Continue reading
Google Takes On Facebook With Google+
Google has finally launched its new full on challenge to Facebook, Google+. The internet giant has stumbled with social before (remember Wave?), but any time Google speaks marketers need to. Continue reading
New Hackers AntiSec Release Private Universal Music, Viacom Data Torrent On Pirate Bay
With an online warning that they are picking up where hackers LulzSec left off, a new group calling itself AntiSec has released a large torrent of hacked data via the. Continue reading
