The Silver Bullet for Music Business Success?
On Music Think Tank, Minh Chau has found an overarching theme that leads to music business success. Through various stories and advice from music industry events, Minh realized that the. Continue reading
News Brief: Ticketfly Gets $12M, Tornado Destroys Malaco, Tweetdeck Sale?, Sonos, 1Band1Brand, More
Ticketing provider Ticketfly has raised $12 million in Series B funding, bringing total capital raised to $15 million. This round was led by Mohr Davidow Ventures with participation from existing. Continue reading
News Update: LN Adds Variable Pricing, Grooveshark Sidesteps Google, MXP4’s Facebook Music Game
You paid what for that seat? Live Nation and Ticketmaster have partnered with MarketShare to develop variable pricing systems for concert and sports tickets. After being banned by Google, Grooveshark. Continue reading
Topspin, Ticketmaster & Music’s Great Re-Bundling
Last week former eMusic CEO and vc David Pakman posted "The Unbundling Of Media". It's an analyst's view of the unbundling of music ($.99 single vs. $15 CD) and how. Continue reading
How To Get Your Music Into Video Games
The National Association of Recording Industry Professionals (NARIP) held a professional’s panel in downtown San Francisco last Wednesday where top minds in the video game industry discussed ways that independent. Continue reading
HP is Getting Into The Cloud Music Business
Hewlett Packard will join Amazon and could beat Google and Apple in getting into the cloud music business. The news comes via a power point presentation being used to sell. Continue reading
Top 4 Bidders For Warner Music Are…
As a new week begins and the tension in Burbank builds, the top four bidders in the auction for Warner Music Group according to a variety of sources are: Los. Continue reading
The Big Business Of Being Facebook
Some stats and an infographic via Fast Company, offers a glimpse in to just how enormous an influencer and business Facebook is: 610,736,920 member profiles. One for every 11 people. Continue reading
As Ticket Sales Slumped, Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino Got A 137% Pay Hike
2010 was not a great year for the live touring industry in general or concert and ticketing giant Live Nation in particular. Ticket sales fell, "synergies" created by the merger. Continue reading
Gamification – The Music Industry, Fan Clubs & Thinking Like A Game Designer
As the music industry embraces gaming, from licensing to games featuring musician, it's easy to think of games as simply offering new revenue streams and marketing tools. Given the explosion. Continue reading
