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Artist Growth Partners With Pilot and Flying J To Save Musicians On Gasoline, Diesel, Other Purchases
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Artist Growth, a robust business management tool for touring artists, has announced a partnership with Pilot Flying J, the largest operator of truck and auto travel centers in North America. Members now save on gasoline, diesel and many other purchases at Pilot and Flying J travel centers. Users will save 3 - 5 cents per gallon on diesel and regular gasoline. The amount moves up and down depending on how many users opt into the program. The more who sign up, ...
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YouTube Red Is Now Live! - Creators To Be Paid During Free Trials
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Google's YouTube launched its paid video and music subscription service today. YouTube Red ad free $9.99 per month subscriptions extend across devices and platforms. YouTube Red lets users access videos across YouTube without ads, while also letting them save videos to watch offline. Background and audio only settings will allow users listen to music without watching the video. YouTube Red also works with Google Play Music, so subscribe to one and users automatically get access to the other. A special YouTube Music app (pictured ...
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The Nu Jazz Agency Announces Managing Director Jerald Miller’s Participation In CD Baby’s Inaugural DIY Musician Conference On October 25, 2015!
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The Nu Jazz Agency has just announced that Managing Director Jerald Miller will be appearing as a special “Mentor” at CD Baby’s inaugural DIY Musician Conference at the Congress Plaza Hotel, 520 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, IL from October 23-25, 2015. As the leading industry expert on the monetization of Jazz, Classical, World, and other non-popular forms of music in the digital age, Jerald Miller’s participation in this event is extremely significant. “At every conference I speak at whether ...
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Five Reasons Why Major Labels Didn't Actually Blow It With Napster
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Popular opinion tends to suggest that the major labels screwed up when they opted to sue Napster, rather than hammering out a deal with them. Looking at it from the perspective of major labels circa 2000 however, reveals that they may have made the best call possible. Guest Post by Jim McDermott on Trickness For a long time, pundits have been saying that the major music labels blew it by suing Napster instead of doing a deal with them. It's ...
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YouTube To Unveil More Details Of Paid Service This Wednesday
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To paraphrase The Kinks, I'm so tired, tired of waiting, tired of waiting for YouTube to launch their paid subscription service. But it looks like, while we may not yet see a full launch, we will learn more about the new service this Wednesday. YouTube will unveil some of the programming it is funding to place behind a paywall as part of its new subscription service at an industry event at its Los Angeles studio this Wednesday October 21st. It ...
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The Album Release Cycle And The Band That Proved The Power Of Digital 7 Years Ago
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This article offers a breakdown of the album release cycle explaining why, in the digital age, the conventional timeline for releasing and promoting an album is riddled with inefficiencies and examines how one metalcore band figured out the right way of doing it way back in 2008. Guest Post by Dan Wagster on LinkedIn Pulse In my previous article The Job That Steve Didn’t Finish I said Steve Jobs left a part of the disruption of the music business unfinished. By launching ...
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Transparency Begins Upstream For Streaming Royalties
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As the popularity of freemium streaming has grown, there has been an ever increasing demand from artists and songwriters for transparency. Major labels and streaming services are usually blamed when a royalty payment doesn't find its way to the creator, but the real responsibility may be higher up the chain, with the advertising service. Guest Post by Chris Castle of MusicTechPolicy We've seen stories recently about various successes for artists in negotiations with major labels about “transparency" in the payment ...
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