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Kevin Breuner, CD Baby VP Of Marketing Looks Back On 2014
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Kevin Breuner, Host of DIY Musician Podcast, and VP of Marketing, CD Baby joins us today on Hypebot.com's year end virtual panel. As an independent artist, Breuner responds to the current streaming debate saying, “You never know where your fans are going to come from. For that reason, I feel it’s important to have your music in all the places people go to enjoy music, including Spotify. I would hate to find out that someone who hadn’t heard us before, but happen to ...
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Benji Rogers, Founder And President Of PledgeMusic, Looks Back On 2014
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Benji Rogers, Founder and President of PledgeMusic joins us today for Hypebot.com's 2014 Year End Virtual Panel. Rogers has a hopeful outlook for the collaboration between artists and music streaming services, but suggests that streaming companies handle the relationship with care. “The artists are the ones with that power. If the artists are given the tools, and therefore the incentive, they will bring the subscribers and all boats will begin to rise." Continue reading for more from Benji Rogers. 1) ...
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TuneCore Acquires DropKloud, Opens Innovation Lab
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TuneCore has acquired musician focused app maker DropKloud and will add its co-founders, James DeNino and Kedar Frederic to the TuneCore team. The two will open a TuneCore office in Boston, where they will focus on product development in a new TuneCore innovation lab designed to build new tools and services for artists. The DropKloud app offers digital enhancement to street team promotion, allowing artists to drop digital content - exclusive access to a song, an invite to a pop-up showcase or behind the scenes photos ...
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BandPage Now Powers Direct To Fan Sales Of 3 Million Items On Spotify, Rhapsody, Lyricfind
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Has BandPage finally found the gold that musicians have been searching for in music streaming? If you consider the untapped artist revenue now uniquely accessible to BandPage users, the pot of gold at the end of the music streaming rainbow; then yes, the early numbers BandPage released this morning would suggest that they've done exactly that. “The tip of a very large iceberg" Through strategic integration with some of the industry's key players including Spotify, Shazam, Lyricfind, Soundcloud and several others, BandPage ...
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Gregory Butler, WholeWorldBand Managing Director, North America Looks Back on 2014
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WholeWorldBand Managing Director, North America Gregory Butler is up next on Hypebot.com's year end virtual panel. “We have enough data to show that people believe music has value - more options for people to choose how music can be devalued isn't exactly positive. I'm not specifically saying the options mentioned are positive or negative, but until a fair, multilateral system exists for streaming, every option is suspect." Find out more about Gregory Butler's position on where music streaming is headed ...
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Darryl Ballantyne, CEO/Co-Founder, LyricFind Looks Back On 2014
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Darryl Ballantyne, CEO/co-founder, LyricFind www.LyricFind.com, leader in legal lyric solutions is joining us today on Hypebot.com's year end virtual panet. On the importance of YouTube Music Key's entry and Apple's acquisition of Beats, Ballantyne says “The jury's still out on both YouTube Music Key and Beats (within Apple), but both have the potential to have a massive impact on the subscription market based on their reach." Read more from Darryl Ballantyne below. 1) Do you see the current debate questioning ...
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Why It Is Time To Make YouTube Look Less Like Spotify And More Like Pandora
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By Mark Mulligan on Music Industry Blog 2014 has been a dramatic year for the music industry and may prove to be one of its most significant. The brief history of digital music is peppered with milestones such as Napster rising its head in 1999, the launch of the iTunes Music Store in 2003, Spotify in 2008. The 2014 legacy looks set to be more nuanced but equally important: it is the year in which streaming started to truly transform ...
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James Donio, President Of The Music Business Association Looks Back On 2014
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James Donio, President of the Music Business Association (Music Biz) is up next on our Virtual Panel. On the subject of streaming, Donio says, “While we refrain from editorializing on any Music Biz member company’s role in the marketplace, it is abundantly clear that streaming will continue to gain traction next year as it tallies more and more users around the world. In fact, Billboard and Nielsen’s decision to include streaming numbers and digital downloads in their calculations for the ...
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