Now You Can Buy Twitter Followers, But Will Any Become True Fans?
Several services including Twitter1K and Followers For Sale have begun selling new Twitter fans by the thousands an at least one experienced internet marketer Jonathan Volk claims to have increased. Continue reading
SoundScan Starts Counting Loudbytes Merchandise Plus Download Packages
Loudbytes has been experimenting with selling t-shirts, buttons, mugs and other music merchandise with download codes attached. Now Loudbytes downloads will be counted by SoundScan alongside sales at iTunes, Amazon. Continue reading
More Industry News: Pirate Bay Hacked, Guvera + The Orchard, INgrooves, EMI Publishing & More
The Pirate Bay Hacked, Users Exposed – A group of Argentinian hackers have managed to gain access to The Pirate Bay’s admin panel through a security breach. Via the backend. Continue reading
Sirius XM Radio Now Has 19.5 Million Suscribers
Sirius XM Radio has now broken the 19.5 million subscribers mark. This makes sense. Well, sort of; it would make sense to my father. He and I recently got back. Continue reading
OK Go Gets Roasted In A Parody & Eats “Giant Pie”
The Internet and Mobile TV platform Babelgum has created a viral video parody of the group OK GO called "Giant Pie." Blogger Brenna Ehrlich over at Mashable suspects that the. Continue reading
Seth Godin On Payola & Music Marketing
Marketer Seth Godin published this interesting insight today on his blog: "For 20 years, the Billboard charts were easy to manipulate. By paying radio stations and some retailers, record labels. Continue reading
Not So Neutral: Google, Bing, & Online Music Market
Both Google and Bing are searching for ways to position themselves as the best entertainment discovery tool. While Bing's offering is slightly more robust than Google's; it may not take. Continue reading
Video: Tom Conrad of Pandora Speaks At Digg
At the end of June, Tom Conrad, the CTO of Pandora, held a talk at Digg, where he outlines the difficulties and windfalls that the company experienced during their transition. Continue reading
Eight Recent Social and Technical Phenomena
Over at our sister blog Music Think Tank, there are two new posts up. One is from Chris Taylor, a co-founder of MicControl, a music blogging network, on the 11. Continue reading
Killola: How To Create Merch That Keeps On Giving
Garage-pop rockers Killola, joining forces with Aderra, a digital distributor of live concert recordings, have created USB Dogtags – that not only serve as a unique merch item to sell. Continue reading
