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How To Gain New Organic Engagement On Instagram
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When it comes to contemporary social media marketing, Instagram has in many ways become an artist resume of sorts, allowing musicians to be discovered from the comfort of their bedrooms. That said, for Instagram to do you any good, you need to be engaging with users and growing your fanbase. Here, we explore how to organically build your following on the platform. Guest post by Christine Elise Occhino of Soundfly's Flypaper We’re living in an awfully interesting time now, aren’t ...
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Music Has More To Gain From The Future Of Transportation Than You Might Think [Cherie Hu]
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Going as far back as the FM radio receivers of the 1950s, transportation and music have been inextricably linked; and as the landscape of the transportation industry changes, new marketing opportunities for music and artists are emerging. By journalist Cherie Hu this first appeared on Forbes.com “Ridesharing, 5G and edge computing are poised to alter transportation, and its accompanying media ecosystem" Ever since the 1950s, when car manufacturers first introduced FM radio receivers inside their vehicles, the mainstream music industry has relied heavily on cars as a significant- if arguably ...
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Pandora's Loss Poised To Become Gain For Investor Sirius XM
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Pandora is struggling on almost every level, from monthly average users to revenue. This week Wall Street punished the streamer's performance, more than halving its stock price in a single day. But Pandora's loss appears poised to become Sirius XM's gain, says MIDiA analyst Mark Mulligan. The successful satellite broadcaster invested $480 million in Pandora earlier this year.streamer. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA and the Music Industry Blog Pandora is in trouble, as explained by the consistently excellent Tim Ingham at ...
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All Streaming Music Services Gain After A Q1 Lull, But Rankings Remain Unchanged
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YouTube is still the world's most popular streaming music service, according to tracking from the analysts at MIDiA. But Spotify is growing at such a clip that it might be able to close the gap. In fact, in the UK, Spotify surpassed YouTube for music among Gen Z's 16-19 year olds. Analysis From Mark Mulligan of MIDiA “YouTube is the world’s leading streaming music app and this is true of the larger, mature markets. The continual breaking of YouTube music ...
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Two Losses, One Gain
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
This week, jazz lost two artists who made substantial contributions to the music. The vibraharpist Peter Appleyard was one of Canada’s best known jazz musicians. Laurie Frink was a New York jazz community insider, honored as a masterly lead trumpeter, revered as a teacher. Born in England in 1928, Appleyard moved to Canada in his early twenties, established himself in Toronto’s jazz community and became a popular figure on Canadian television. He toured for nearly a decade as a featured ...
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Who's Gonna Gain, Who's Gonna Lose This Summer...
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Digital Music News
There are huge downsides to going public, including a raft of laws related to financial disclosures. Bottom-scraper The Orchard (ORCD) eventually quit this game and closed its books to the world, while Pandora (P) is now showing us its non-profitability for the first time. And, here's the list of music companies about to show us more—for better or for worse. Consensus earnings data from Zacks Earnings Consensus (zacks.com). Apple (AAPL): July 19th, consensus +$5.81 per share. SanDisk (SNDK): July 21st, ...
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Crowd Factory Marketing Apps Gain Traction with Major Music Companies
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Crowd Factory, a software as a service company focused on social marketing tools, recently introduced a new function for their Social Offer service that enables quick creation of landing pages for group deals and social campaigns on the web and Facebook. This rounds out their suite of “crowd-powered marketing apps" already in use at a number of major music companies. The cost of Social Offer is not low, starting at $1500 a month, but that's still less than a programmer ...
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Creditors Set to Gain Panavision
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Michael Ricci
Ronald O. Perelman is handing over Panavision Inc., the debt-laden camera rental company that is suffering from a steep downturn in movie and TV production, to its creditors. Perelman's holding company, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., has reached an agreement in principle with a group of creditors -- including Cerberus Capital Management, the former owner of Chrysler -- for the billionaire investor to give up his controlling stake in the camera maker that has been a fixture on movie sets ...
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iPhone Apps Gain Steam as Music Promo and Delivery Platform
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A growing number of artists and labels are using custom applications created for the iPhone and iPod Touch as both a promotional tool and an extension of the traditional album release.
Most recently, Universal released five similar yet customized apps for The Pussycat Dolls, Lady Gaga, Soulja Boy, The All American Rejects, and Keri Hilson. All five were created by popular mobile video service Kyte and offer behind the scenes video, news, live chat and other functions including music and ...
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Frishberg: A Net Gain
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All About Jazz
Have I mentioned that Dave Frishberg has a web site? He has. I am putting a link to it high on the Other Places list in the center column. The site has a discography, lots of photographs and a catalog of the songs he's written, from “Wallflower Lonely, Cornflower Blue" (1963) to “Who Do You Think You Are, Jack Dempsey?" (2004). It also has a Written Word section that includes a page called Colleagues And Characters, who include the unlikely--George ...
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