When VEVO & Ad Supported Music Go Too Far
Updated Ads Creep Onto Official Artist Web Sites As easy and often justified as it is to criticize the major labels, I've also always tried to maintain a sense of. Continue reading
Andrew Dubber: Shut Up And Listen To Your Fans
As someone who once spent the better part of an internship solving captcha puzzles and spamming ‘potential fans’ for artists on MySpace, I found Andrew Dubber’s recent article on Social. Continue reading
ASCAP Lawsuits Target 21 Venues In 13 States
As is does periodically, ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) yesterday filed 21 separate lawsuits against nightclubs, bars and restaurants in 13 states claiming infringement. According to. Continue reading
HOW TO: Build A Twitter Strategy for Your Band
Megan Berry, a Marketing Manager for Klout, has written a great overview of the questions that businesses need to ask themsevles and consider before crafting a Twitter strategy. Her five insights are. Continue reading
MySpace360Wizard Launch & Account Giveaway
MySpace360Wizard gives artists an easy and relatively cheap way to design their MySpace profile. Normally, this type of profile generator isn't something I get too excited about, but it seems like the right. Continue reading
More Industry News: BPI Targets Google, Rapid Share Kills Rewards, Live Nation, Eminem & More
Google targeted by BPI for linking to illegal downloads. – UK recording industry association sends cease-and-desist order to search engine, asking it to remove links to infringing websites. (Guardian) RapidShare. Continue reading
Crowd Sourcing EMI’s 1369 Lies
Michael Robertson Crowd Sources MP3Tune's Legal Defense When EMI sued MP3.com founder Michael Roberston startup MP3Tunes complaining about it's music search engine Sideload that links to publicly available songs, they. Continue reading
110B Minutes Spent On Social Networks & Blogs
Neilson, the market research firm, has published statistics saying that “the world now spends over 110 billion minutes on social networks and blog sites each month. This equates to 22%. Continue reading
Ariel Hyatt On The Power Of Friendship
On the eve of her birthday, music marketing and PR specialist Ariel Hyatt took a moment to recognize the great friends in her life that helped her along the way and. Continue reading
Mixlr: Share Live Music On The Web
Exclusive: Free Broadcast Codes Broadcasting DJs and live acts online can be surprisingly hard. Mixlr provides a simple way for musicians to share live music on the web. That means that means no more messing around. Continue reading
