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Reporting On SoundCloud: Past, Present & Future
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In the seven years since its inception, SoundCloud has worked to build the ideal platform for maximizing exposure and connections for musicians, and, in doing so, has dramatically changed the music industry. Griffin Davis explores how in the Music Business Journal. In the years since the rise and subsequent fall of Napster, the distribution of recorded music has, for better or worse, become primarily about maximizing exposure. Many of today’s artists look to have their music on as many listening platforms ...
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Domino.fm Enters The Streaming Services Arena With High Hopes
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Ladies and gentlemen, another streaming service has made an entrance. In an already saturated market dominated by algorithm curated content, Domino.fm hit the market today with hopes of combating competition with a distinctly human touch. Domino.fm curates it's musical selections directly from the industry's leading blogs and music news sources. By determining individual preferences based on the news users are already consuming, the app seeks to set itself apart by catering to personal taste instead of auto-generated algorithms. Domino.fm integrates with Rdio ...
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How Rhapsody Re-Entered The Streaming Player Competition
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Industry analyst Mark Mulligan who pens the Music Industry Blog shares how Rhapsody and its Napster brand are on the road back to becoming a real competitor in the crowded streaming music sector. Last week Rhapsody announced reaching 2.5 million total subscribers across their unlimited and UnRadio offerings. While not in the same scale as Spotify’s 15 million, it nonetheless places Rhapsody as the fourth largest subscriber base globally and approximately 10% of the global total. Rhapsody spent most of the second part of ...
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Onkyo Launches Hi-Res Music Download Store In US, UK, Germany
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Japan based audio and video manufacturer Onkyo has expanded its Onkyo Music high resolution music download store to the US, UK and Germany in beta. Unlike Pono, Tidal and Deezer Elite, Onkyo does not stream hi-def music, but offers it for sale and download. Onkyo Music is powered by 7Digital and offers “hundreds of thousands" of 24-bit 44.1kHz - 192kHz tracks alongside millions of CD quality 16-bit FLAC files. A hi-res albums range from $15-$25 and single tracks cost $2-$4 per song. ...
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New .BAND Domains Offer Online Visibility For MusicIans
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Rightside, a provider of domain name services has added .BAND domains to the global music industry as the fourth new Top Level Domain (TLD). .BAND is geared to both emerging and mainstream artists, industry influencers and online music services. The new domain aims to provide access to a bigger audience and differentiation from an otherwise saturated market. Industry veteran Jeff Pollack, CEO of Global Media & Entertainment for Pollack Music & Media Group, knows firsthand the importance of recognizable branding ...
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MySpace Returns From The Dead, Traffic Up 575%
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What if MySpace was more than a vault for Throwback Thursdays? With new stats showing user traffic up a surprising 575% from this time last year, MySpace is causing a bit of a buzz amongst social media connoisseurs. Generating over 300 million video views in the month of November, MySpace ranked 16th most popular video provider in ComScore's Video Matrix ranking begging the question: Could the social media pioneer really be making a comeback? MySpace seems to have attracted a niche ...
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Mike King of Berklee Online Looks Back On 2014
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Mike King, course author, instructor and Assistant VP of Marketing for Berklee Online is up next on Hypebot.com's Year End Virtual Panel. Discussing what 2014 meant for Berklee Online, King says “Massive Open Online Courses have made a significant, positive, impact on our business over the past year. We have seven free online courses available on Coursera right now, and two with EdX, covering music business, music production, songwriting, guitar, vocal production, and even a Gary Burton improvisation course." Continue reading on the ...
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YouTube Launches GIF Creator
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Have you ever found yourself mindlessly flipping through a Buzzfeed article chock-full of photos and GIF files wondering how on earth such perfect specimens of hilarity are generated from your favorite videos? Thanks to YouTube's new GIF creator, you can finally be the genius in the drivers seat. Using the new feature, you can grab clips of a video you're watching and turn it into a silent mini clip that plays on a loop. AKA - a GIF (Graphics Interchange ...
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