EMI Readies Catalog Push With “All You Need is Love(mark)” Twist
The outsourcing trend continues with EMI Music Marketing’s US catalog unit hire of ad firm Saatchi & Saatchi to develop and execute strategic consumer marketing campaigns for key titles from. Continue reading
PassAlong Spins Off Indie Download Enabler Speakerheart
Music distribution developer PassAlong Networks is spinning off Speakerheart, an online platform for independent artists and bands to upload and sell own music, as its own company. Speakerheart is a. Continue reading
New Music Business Briefing: Live Nation’s New Ticket Moves, Crowley Upped At Koch, Lennon On iTunes & Much More.
>>> LIve Nation now offers fans a widget and other web tools to find concerts and buy tickets directly from personal web pages. (press release, widgets) Is this part of. Continue reading
Understaffed Epic Hires Competition To Promote New Releases
Is this what it has come to? Lacking a proper Hip Hop/R&B promo team Epic shunned the indie promo and marketing community and hired competing hip hop label Koch to. Continue reading
New Music Business Briefing: “But Daddy’s A Pirate…”, Universal Watermarking & Much More
>>> A new EU survey shows that while they know its illegal, young people had a plethora of ready excuses for illegal downloading including "everyone is doing it…even my parents". . Continue reading
Google’s Role And Other Details Of Universal DRM Free Experiment Emerge
>>> The Google Factor – Amidst all the noise about Universal’s DRM-free experiment and the middle finger it points at iTunes was a mention of Google. This alliance as well. Continue reading
New Music Business Briefing: Edison Invests In Sonicbids, Universal Grabs V2, WMG Pets Bulldog & More
>>> The Edison Venture Fund has made a substantial investment in popular online press kit service Sonicbids. >>> Universal’s buying spree continues with the purchase of V2 from Morgan Stanley.. Continue reading
How Rhapsody Will Handle DRM-Free
As announced last week, starting on 8/21 Rhapsody will sell select 256kps tracks from Universal at the same price as protected files—89 cents per song for Rhapsody subscribers and 99. Continue reading
Mercury Records Seeks Interns
Hypebot publishes all music industry related jobs and internships free. Please email your listings. Mercury Records is currently seeking A&R interns for the upcoming Fall 2007 semester. We are looking. Continue reading
