Twitter Tests New Feature. Are You On The List?
Twitter is beta testing a new feature called Lists with limited number of users before a wider roll out. The motivation behind Lists is the realization that once you start. Continue reading
New Ad Supported Music Downoad Site FreeAllMusic.com Gets Seed Funding
PLUS A Q & A With CEO Richard Nailling Free All Media has secured seed funding to launch its FreeAllMusic.com ad supported free digital music service in late 2009. The. Continue reading
MySpace Music Shares Strong Stats, Adds Australia
MySpace Music shared some strong U.S. August stats yesterday. From Nielsen Netview – MySpace Music unique users have grown 169% since launch in September 2008 and 1472%, year-over-year The site. Continue reading
Two YouTube Musicians Start An Indie Label For Other YouTube Musicians
Small indie label DFTBA – which stands for "don't forget to be awesome" – focuses entirely on acts that gained their first attention via YouTube and is run by online. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: Album Decline Slows, Imeem Gets $6M, TubeRadio, Mulligan: “Radical Overhaul” Needed & More
imeem wipes the slate clean with $6 million in new funding. (TechCrunch) Analysis: Album Sales Decline Slows To 6% in September, Track Equivalent Albums (TEAs) Down 4%. (Billboard) TubeRadio is. Continue reading
Billy Bragg On Piracy: “A war that no one can win.”
Billy Bragg has been one of the UK's most politically active and outspoken musicians for several decades. Now in an open letter first published in The Guardian, Bragg weighs in. Continue reading
Bandzoogle Hits A $1.5 Million Milestone
Self-service music web site builder and artist services site Bandzoogle has just hit $1.5 million market in commission free sales for artists using their services. Founder Chris Vinson also tells. Continue reading
Trouble In The Orchard: CEO Scholl Exits, Staff Cut
Greg Scholl, President and CEO of indie distribution powerhouse The Orchard is exiting the company amid overall staff reductions of 20%. Scholl is landing on his feat with a new. Continue reading
Fanscape’s CEO On The Value Of Online Fandom
Industry veteran Larry Weintraub's Fanscape has been a leading online music marketing agency since the earliest days of music and the internet 2.0. The company has marked their 11th anniversary. Continue reading
Online Video Views Climb. YouTube Dominates
comScore's Video Metrix reported that in the U.S. 161 million people watched more than 25 billion online videos viewed during August, an all time record. Google sites surpassed 10 billion. Continue reading