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Google Search Now Highlights Tour Dates, Here's How to Feature Your Concerts
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Google's Knowledge Graph now presents info about a variety of topics in a sidebar beside the search results. Click the image to the right for one example featuring Chick Corea. For your concert dates to appear in such a manner, you must have the info available on your official site using structured data markup. It sounds painful but even if you've never heard of such a thing you may already be using tools from sites like Bandsintown, Songkick, BandPage and ...
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Vijay Iyer's Album "Mutations" Got Leaked Early then Pirated. Here's What Happened Next.
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While some people might think that music pirates wouldn't be that interested in a classical album from a well-known jazz pianist, the recent leak of Vijay Iyer's “Mutations" is a reminder that piracy happens in all genres. When Iyer discovered that his album had been leaked and then pirated a few weeks before release, he contacted his manager Steve Cohen. Cohen then turned to Topple Track who provided a low-cost, immediately implemented solution to what initially seemed like a devastating ...
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PledgeMusic's Site Redesign Reveals Potential for Much Bigger Moves
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Over the weekend PledgeMusic rolled out a site redesign featuring a more open and inviting look than the previous design. With a backend overhaul next on their list, one begins to see a much bigger company coming into possible view. Last week I spoke a bit with PledgeMusic President Benji Rogers about the redesign and upcoming plans. With a redesign that will encourage browsing and crosspledging among fans and backend plans that may eventually include integrations with partners, PledgeMusic has ...
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Rdio and Shazam Integration Goes International, Leaves Spotify in the Dust
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By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Rdio and Shazam extended on Tuesday a joint feature in Shazam’s app that lets music fans preview and collect songs they’ve tagged from speakers into 29 new territories. This is not a trivial integration. Shazam believably claims to generate 10 percent of all digital music sales in the world, indicating that successful integration between music identification and collecting mechanisms might have a positive effect for on-demand subscriptions, which are slowly replacing downloads as the ...
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How to Get Millions of People to Download and Use Your Music App
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As Co-founder and CEO of Khush, Prerna Gupta led the company to a huge success with mobile music apps such as LaDIDa and Songify before they were acquired by Smule. She then went on to lead product development and marketing at Smule with the understanding that products that sell themselves have marketing built into them. Recently she shared a few tips for building an app that sells itself. Prerna Gupta was Co-founder and CEO of Khush, which achieved great success ...
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Last.FM Adds Free Spotify Streaming
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Last week we reported on plans by Last.fm to stream music via YouTube. Today, the CBS owned Last.fm announced a deal with Spotify. Both free and premium Spotify users can now play and control music from a Spotify playbar at the bottom of the Last.fm screen. It's unclear if YouTube or streaming from other services are still part of the Last.fm plan, though it's likely given the cost savings that outside music providers offer the struggling service. Before Pandora, Rhapsody, ...
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Music Tech Developers: Crowdfund New Features with app.net's Backer
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App.net has launched a new crowdfunding service for developers called Backer that focuses on funding a new feature or service. So, instead of getting quick misleading responses to questions posed to users about a startup's next step, developers can see if users are actually going to support it by seeing if they'll fund it. App.net tested it out on their site and are now making it available to the public. App.net is a developer platform that launched, in part, to ...
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Music Startup Dreams? Learn from These 51 Tech Founders Who Failed
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Silicon Valley is said to have a culture that embraces failure as a learning process. But that doesn't mean you have to fail first before you can succeed. A recent roundup of posts by founders whose startups failed gives quite a bit of insight into the wide range of reasons that led to the same outcome. It only contains one music tech startup tale, that of Zillionears, but that alone should be a cautionary tale for music tech startups seeking ...
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