Generate Demand For Your Music With Loss Leaders
The debate roars on over giving music away for free. Yesterday, Bruce wrote about it on Hypebot in How To Turn Free Into Paid: Lessons From Evernote Today on Music. Continue reading
News Brief: More MySpace Losses, Sony Blames Anonymous, LimeWire Fights Back & More
MySpace Losses Continue – In a new News Corp earnings report, the “other” group that includes MySpace reported losses of $165 million “primarily due to increased losses at Myspace, stemming. Continue reading
Soundcloud Launches Experimental Labs, Partners With Headliner.fm
SoundCloud has launched SoundCloud Labs, a site dedicated to experimental projects and features built on its API. The company also announced a partnership that enables a SoundCloud-supported mp3 streams directly. Continue reading
How To Turn Free Into Paid: Lessons From Evernote
(Updated) We give away free music (or it's grabbed via p2p), but how can we eventually monetize it? Artists, labels and music marketers ask themselves that question every day. I. Continue reading
The Evolution Of Facebook Social Widgets [Infographic]
From "Connect" to "Share" to "Like" and it's new social selective cousin "Send", Facebook has been encouraging us to share information with each other in ways and on a scale. Continue reading
WMG Update: Bids Are In, Deal Expected Soon
According to multiple sources final bids are in the hands of the Warner Music Group board for review and they hope to finalize a deal quickly. The three bidders remaining. Continue reading
Look Who’s Running For The A2IM Board
17 candidates are vying for five seats on the board of top U.S. indie music trade group the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM). The list looks like a Who's. Continue reading
Spotify Update Takes On iTunes
With Apple the dominate force in digital music, others must stay compatible (Jobs' closed eco-system is not easy to penetrate) or to compete. (Remember the Zune?) Today Spotify announced changes. Continue reading
Video: Spotify Says Hello To The iPod
Spotify today announced major upgrades that make the streaming music service more compatible with iTunes. In fact Spotify's hope is that users will switch to its new platform to manage. Continue reading
iTunes Top 10 Singles & Albums
For week ending May 2, 2011 Top 10 Singles1. "Rolling In the Deep," ADELE2. "E.T. (Kanye West)," Katy Perry3. "The Lazy Song," Bruno Mars4. "Till the World Ends" (Nicki Minaj. Continue reading
