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Indie Music Streamer Earbits Shuts Down
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Earbits is shutting down today. The free streaming music service enabled artists and labels to “buy" plays, promote and connect with fans. While successful, the model was not generating enough revenue to continue. Despite today's closure, Earbits founder Joey Flores still believes that its a path that other music streamers must take. “If there is anything that we want to impart on the industry about our experience it’s this," wrote Flores over the weekend. “If today’s streaming companies truly care ...
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Lively Runs Out of Money, Suddenly Shuts Down
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In January I was writing about Lively's $2 million round of investments bringing their total funding to $2.65 million. Yesterday GeekWire revealed that Lively had suddenly shut down and laid off almost 22 employees because they “just ran out of time." In this case time really does equal money. Lively couldn't raise more funding for their service that facilitates audio and video recording of live shows to be delivered after the show. The concept of recording and delivering live shows ...
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Amazon Prime Music is Here and It Underwhelms, but Not in a Bad Way
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Amazon's new Prime Music is here, a streaming service that's “free" to Amazon Prime subscribers only. If you're wondering if Spotify users will switch over then you're on the wrong track. Having watched Amazon grow what's now called Amazon Prime Video I know that what we're seeing today is just the beginning and that Amazon's focus is on the long-term. It's a bigger play than killing Spotify because it's one small piece of a much bigger empire. Amazon Prime Music: ...
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An Introduction to Bitcoin for Indie Musicians
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By James Shotwell, Social Media Coordinator of the media distribution service Haulix. Cryptocurrency is a hot topic right now, and there is not a doubt in our minds that it will be a big focus of independent musicians in the years to come. If you have any questions about the content of the blog, or if you would like more information regarding the distributional services offered by Haulix, please email [email protected] and share your thoughts. You can also find us on ...
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Using A/B Testing to Inspire New Music Marketing Approaches
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Ferren Gipson is a digital marketer specialising in the art and design sectors, writer for ArtCream, musician with Pandr Eyez and freelancer for those who want a more beautiful, usable online space. I wear many hats. I do digital marketing, I’m a lifestyle blogger, and I also perform in a music duo. All of these roles seem very random (and probably are), but each one informs the other. I was just reading up on A/B testing, as I’m presently doing some homepage ...
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Why Music Labels and Publishers Chronically Miss out on Licensing Opportunities
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By music licensing expert Andy Lykens. The C-levels at a music publisher I used to work at would drop by my cube once every few days. All nice people, they did their best to be friendly when asking “working on anything big?” They’d ask that question because I was the person who had developed a system and brought in deals (licenses worth anywhere from $15K-$400K per side). My answer was typically “yes, I’m always working on something big.” Because that ...
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U.S. Music Publishing Worth $4.5 Billion Yearly, 50% Lost to Outdated Regulations Says NMPA
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U.S. music publishing earned $2.2 billion in total revenue in 2013 across all income sources. However, according to a new National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) survey, roughly $2.3 billion more is lost every year due to outdated copyright law and government regulations. Thanks to recent changes in the way data is collected, the NMPA can now quantify the total industry revenue and value. The new program requires music publishing members to provide revenue data and captures market share information. Total industry ...
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Look What Disc Makers is Reintroducing This Week [video]
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We'll have more after the official announcemnet. Until then, here is what they put on YouTube: “Everything old is new again. Disc Makers was a pioneer in the vinyl business way back in 1940s and was synonymous with the highest quality record pressing for independent artists and labels in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. After a 10-year hiatus we've decided to apply our deep knowledge of vinyl pressing to serving today's independent musicians — after all, the guys who ran ...
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