Music Exec Watches Personal Music Budget Decline
Ethan Kaplan, former SVP of Emerging Technology at Warner Music Group, has published an insightful essay on his blog about the death of the music business and his shrinking personal. Continue reading
Rhapsody To Offer 60-Day Free Trial – Will It Work?
Through March, Rhapsody is offering a 60-day free trial of its on-demand music service. This huge promotion comes by way of MTV Networks. Until last April, MTV was a part. Continue reading
Why The Connected Car May Kill Local Radio
In the past, I have made the case that the connected car may kill traditional radio, because the addition of apps like Pandora and MOG will give it heavy competition. These apps. Continue reading
D.I.Y. Bootcamp: Tunecore’s Jeff Price [VIDEO]
(UPDATED) EXCLUSIVE: Scion A/V produced a series that provides a video tour of the new music industry and tools that make it work. Hypebot will feature one a day for. Continue reading
10 Marketing Lessons I Learned From KISS
On Music Think Tank, Michael Brandvold has made a post about his involvement with building and managing the KISS website. As an avid KISS fan, Brandvold learned several marketing lessons.. Continue reading
AM Brief: iPad Event, SoundHound Upgrade, Spotify Staffs US, Facebook + Beluga, RootMusic & More
Hypebot publishes a morning roundup of music industry news every weekday morning prior to 11AM ET and when warranted will add a PM Update edition around 4:30PM ET. All eyes. Continue reading
PM Update: Rhapsody Tries 60 Days Free, SocialEyes Launches Facebook Video, UMG Earnings & More
Hypebot publishes a morning roundup of music industry news every weekday morning prior to 11AM ET and when warranted will add a PM Update edition around 4:30PM ET. Rhapsody will. Continue reading
PROOF: The War on Piracy Is a Complete Failure
Back in October, Napster co-creator and investor Sean Parker argued that in order to accept Spotify as a business model, you first must accept that "the war on piracy is. Continue reading
Hypebot Readers Say New Facebook Like Button Will “Surely Backfire”
"To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction," wrote scientist Issac Newton. And if the comments yesterday's post about Facebook suddenly changing their Like button to mimic. Continue reading
Striking the Chord – Why Lyricists Matter
Lyricists possess the ability to distill complex situations and emotions into sixteen syllable couplets. Most importantly, they possess the capacity to strike a chord in us, the listener. Why is. Continue reading
