TourIntel Offers Concert Histories & Statistics
The live music industry is having a difficult summer, and when times are tough accurate information about what shows are being booked becomes powerful. Online industry trade CelebrityAccess extends its. Continue reading
Seth Godin: Get It Right For 10 People
(UPDATED) Don't Go For The Masses, Go Direct To Fan Major labels are mass marketing power giants; it’s what they do. Before the advent of the social web, they were. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: Amazon Stumbles, Smartphones Soar, Real Removes, Google’s Music Atty Answers Questions & More
Amazon's reports a decent quarter including a projection $1billion in mobile sales yearly, but it was not good enough for investors who punished the stock with a sell off. (Media. Continue reading
The Hypebot Hit Song Contest: Help Write The Music
Data drives your marketing, so why not your music? Hypebot has written the first data-driven hit song and wants you to sing their first single. Inspired by the work of. Continue reading
Amanda Palmer: $15,000 In Merch Sold 90 Sec.
Yesterday marked the release of Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele. Reports from bandcamp indicate that this event "less resembled a record release than. Continue reading
Dave Haynes’s Summer Reading List
Dave Haynes (@haynes_dave) is VP Business Development at SoundCloud. Here at Hypebot, we are rolling out our summer reading lists, written by some of the leading thinkers in the industry.. Continue reading
Determining The ROI of Social Media Marketing
In a recent Forrester study , analyst Augie Ray suggests that marketers trying to determine the ROI of their social media marketing need to look beyond dollars and cents and. Continue reading
Google Hires Top Industry Attorney To Jump Start New Music Service
Google has hired well known music attorney Elizabeth Moody to negotiate with record labels, music publishers and other rights holders for a planned Google Music service. Sources close to recent. Continue reading
5 Reasons That You Still Might Want To Sign To A Record Label
Yesterday's guest post 5 Reasons Not To Sign A Record Deal drew some passionate comments both in support of and against the value that record labels bring to artists. In. Continue reading
