Fancorps Takes Over Contest To Prove The Value Of Street Teams
A constant question in the new era of music marketing is,. "What actually works?". Digital street team enabler Fancorps set out to offer some proof by asking members of four. Continue reading
MyMajorCompany Gets $4.1 Million For Fan Funded Releases
MyMajorCompany, which like Sellaband and others empowers fans to finance recordings for artists they like, has received a $4.1 million investment from Stephane Courbit, a former Endemol France executive in. Continue reading
MySpace Pushes Beyond Browser To TV
MySpace has launched a widget designed on the new Widget Channel TV application framework being co-developed by Intel and Yahoo!. The MySpace Widget for TV allows users to interact with. Continue reading
Hypebot / Topspin Meetup @ MidemNet
Hype-bot is partnering with Ian Rogers and his Topspin Media team to host a meetup on Saturday January 17th in Cannes for those in town for MidemNet and Midem. For. Continue reading
Romancing Your Favorite Music Bloggers
In the last two Daily D.I.Y. posts I talked about the importance of music bloggers and how to find the ones that matter to your music via special search techniques. Continue reading
Thursday’s Music Briefing: iTunes’ Concessions, Lobbying, Lady Sovereign & Much More
HYPEBOT FEATURES: Fancorps Takes Over Contest To Prove The Value Of Street Teams MyMajorCompany Gets $4.1 Million For Fan Funded Releases iLike Adds INgrooves' Indie Catalog MySpace Pushes Beyond Browser. Continue reading
Free Nine Inch Nails Tops Amazon 2008 MP3 Album Sales Chart
Free music proved it deserves space in the album release toolkit in 2008. Because, or some will argue despite, the fact that Trent Reznor gave away an abbreviated version of. Continue reading
Author John King On Understanding Your Tribe
In Part 1 of my interview with John King, co-author of Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, he gave us a brief explanation of how he. Continue reading
Universal Cuts Custom Ringtone Deal With ID Interactive’s UrTone
UPDATED: Ringtone sales are in a slump and labels are scrambling to new ways to revive them. Many of the initiatives attempt to boost revenues by cutting out the middle. Continue reading
Daily D.Y.I. – Music Blog Directories
Yesterday, I shared the importance of reaching out to music blogs and suggested some search engine tricks to find them. But there is another way to find just the right. Continue reading