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Eventbrite, Bandsintown Partner To Connect Concert Promoters With Music Fans
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HypeBot
In the crowded ticketing sector, Eventbrite has innovated their way into a $5 billion niche in self-service ticketing, today adding a Bandsintown partnership. Indie ticketing platform Eventbrite and concert discovery app Bandsintown have announced a partnership that integrates the two platforms in ways that should help sell more tickets. The partnership has two phases: Phase I goes live today, and integrates Bandsintown‘s ad solution platform, “Bandsintown Promoter,” into Eventbrite, as part of the event creation flow. Promoters can use it to reach fans of ...
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The Streaming Music Price Wars Have Started
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HypeBot
Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 It was probably only a matter of time, but it now looks like the first of many streaming music price wars has truly broken out. In a reaction to Amazon entering the streaming market with its Music Unlimited service, Google has extended the free trial period for its Play Music service to 4 months, making a new subscription average of about $6.66 over the course of the first year. In response, Spotify reintroduced its ...
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Context Awareness: The Music Industry's Next Frontier
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HypeBot
In this article, music-tech writier Cherie Hu delves into the ability of context awareness to reshape creativity as well as create new revenue streams and new business models for the music industry in general. Guest Post by Cherie Hu on Synchblog In his book Who Owns the Future?, computer scientist Jaron Lanier highlights the importance of “decision reduction" in technology. In an advanced, noisy information economy, he explains, the most desirable services will anticipate and execute on the myriad of ...
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Outhere Music acquires HatHut Records
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All About Jazz
Outhere Music is proud to announce the acquisition of the catalogue of the legendary Swiss jazz and contemporary music label HatHut Records. HatHut Records boasts an impressive number of more than 500 CD’s and LP’s, produced by its visionary founder, Werner X. Uehlinger over 40 years. Major composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, Galina Ustvolskaya and interpreters like Paul Bley, Anthony Braxton, Ellery Eskelin, Steve Lacy, Joe McPhee, Cecil Taylor or the Sun Ra Arkestra have put ...
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How We Listen To Music In Our Cars
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HypeBot
While listening to music in the car has long been a tradition, the way in which we do it has changed significantly over the years, as technology has developed to allow greater choice in what we choose to play. Here we look at some numbers relating to listeners on the go. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Once upon a time the only way to hear music while driving was through the radio. Of course you were at ...
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New Trade Mission Visits South American Music Conferences, Fests in 6 Cities: Doing Business in Chile, Argentina, Brazil
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Starting today, a new trade mission is meeting with musicians and the music industry at conferences and festivals in 6 cities in 3 South American countries. The three—Chile, Argentina and Brazil—collectively represent 2/3rds of the Latin American music market. The phenomenon of music conferences and festivals scheduling together so that international delegates and speakers can participate in two or more regional events consecutively, saving travel costs and time, as well as networking for a longer time, has reached new lengths ...
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Record Labels Shift From Promoters To Storytellers As Power Fades
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In this piece, David Emery remarks on record labels' directional shift towards promoting and selling artists “stories" as their power and influence in the music industry begins to fade. Guest post by David Emery, VP Global Marketing Strategy for Kobalt Label Services I was talking recently with someone I know who works at a music media company. I say “media company” both to be purposefully vague but also because I struggle to think of a better term that encompasses the merging worlds ...
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Music Industry Seeks To Ban Concert Ticket Buying Bots
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HypeBot
Having choice seats snatched out from under them by the ticket bots of a third party ticket broker is an all-to-common occurrence for a lot of ticket buyers, and while it's been an annoyance for some time, it looks as though something may finally get done about it, at least in Britain. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Has this happened to you? You’re one of the first in line to buy a ticket to a concert by your ...
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