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Samsung's New Music Hub Takes On Spotify, Pandora, iTunes and iCloud
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One year ago this week, we wrote about a company called mSpot and its quest to dethrone music service titans like Spotify, Pandora, and iTunes/iCloud by combining everything they all do into one unique package. Samsung acquired mSpot earlier this month, and already, we're seeing what the electronics giant has planned for its acquisition — you know, just like Facebook and Instagram. Today announced Samsung Music Hub, which it calls “the first completely integrated, all-in-one mobile music service," which runs ...
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Indaba Launches Social Contest Suite, Amplifies Marketing for Brands and Labels
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Indaba Music, the well-known musician social network & collaboration platform, announced today that it has launched its Social Contest Suite, an end-to-end music-marketing platform that connects independent musicians with fans via a new socially integrated music discovery product. Geared towards both brands and labels, the Social Contest Suite syndicates musician activities (such as recording) and fan actions (such as voting) through Facebook and other web properties to amplify and instigate authentic user-generated conversations. The three primary product features of Indaba's ...
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Using Pinterest for Artist Marketing
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Pinterest has quickly become one of the fastest growing social media sites, now boasting over 11.7 million unique visitors per month and 17.8 million registered users. Pinterest's rapid growth is the result of a few key factors. First, their platform is visually appealing. Users select items of interest based primarily on imagery, so there is very little text to read, ultimately retaining a user's attention for much longer. Another factor is that Pinterest users can sign in through Facebook or ...
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MobBase Adds Free HTML5 App Creator for Bands, is This Tunecore for Apps?
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Hype aside, apps really can be a fine way for artists to “connect with their fans," as overused as that expression might be. MobBase debuted another interesting entry in the budding market for helping bands build apps — a trend that at the very least gives them a new way to promote themselves to their fans, and could even turn into a significant revenue stream. Its idea: an HTML5 app that's free for any band to create, and which runs ...
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Curious Sense Games Offer New Music Industry Revenue Stream
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Curious Sense is a music game startup that garnered recent press for the release of a Grateful Dead game. Rather than licensing music as a backdrop element, Curious Sense seeks to work with rights holders in creating a game environment built around back catalog music and related media. As is evident with The Epic Tour, which features Grateful Dead content, the experience is focused on the band's subculture and overall brand in an integrated manner. I recently spoke with Curious ...
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Rdio Engineering VP Todd Berman Calls for Universal Music Apps [interview]
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Guest post by Andy Cush of Evolver.fm. Spotify has received a lt of attention for its app platform, and rightfully so. Rdio also has an app platform, offering access to the same songs, more or less. Evolver.fm caught up with Rdio vice president of engineering Todd Berman to discuss the one-year anniversary of Rdio's developer API; the service's approach to third-party apps; and his belief that Rdio, Spotify, Rhapsody, and MOG need to start thinking like partners if they want ...
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Top Pinterest Tools and Tips for Music Marketing
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Since my early call that music marketers should be paying attention to Pinterest, it's become an increasing focus for a variety of folks in the music industry. Now one of the most popular social networks after only Twitter and Facebook, Pinterest seems likely to establish itself as a must-have for music marketers far beyond my expectatons for Google+. Pinterest is still in invite mode but that hasn't stopped it from becoming the third most popular social network in the States ...
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Coindl: "iTunes of the Bitcoin World". Can Digital Currency Create New Music Revenue Stream?
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Bitcoin is an attempt to create a new digital currency. It's had some ups and downs, in part because it's not issued by a government, but it seems to be headed towards some level of legitimacy. In fact, Bitcoin is now becoming a factor in digital media with the launch of coinDL, a digital goods marketplace described by Bitcoin Magazine as the “iTunes of the Bitcoin world." It's unclear whether or not this development can lead to a legitimate revenue ...
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