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In 24 Days or Less, Apple Will Change Music, Again...

Source: Digital Music News
October 5, 2011

You've had your cloud, but you haven't had it like this. And sometime in “late October," Apple plans to change the music world, again. That's when the much-anticipated iTunes Match hits the streets—at least in the US, according to details disclosed today by the company (the UK is apparently next on the list). And America—and then the world—will experience a cloud like none other. But can they pull it off this time? We've argued that the iTunesCloud—complete with scan-n-match—will trump ...

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First 7 of 16 Music Services Go Live on Facebook

Source: HypeBot
October 5, 2011

(UPDATED) By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced 16 music partners on September 22nd ranging from almost-unheard-of to the incredibly popular. Of those, 7 have completed their integration with Facebook, meaning that they can automatically send users' listening activity to their friends' Facebook tickers and Music sections, and to their own Facebook Timelines. Here's the full list in both categories: We confirmed with Facebook spokeswoman Malorie Lucich today, with links to explainers on Evolver.fm: Launched Earbits streaming radio ...

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First Look at the New MySpace: It's All About Music

Source: HypeBot
October 5, 2011

The week, new MySpace owners Specific Media are pitching the site at Advertising Week along with investor Justin Timberlake. A leaked ad pitch deck (click on image at left to enlarge) and an interview are offering the few hints we have as to what the new MySpace will look like—and its all about music and the “youth culture." MySpace traffic has “steadied" according to Specifc who hopes to make Myspace “the #1 online community music destination" and to feed the ...

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Fanbridge Launches Social Digest - Earns 1 Million Subscribers in 24 Hours

Source: HypeBot
October 1, 2011

Direct-to-fan marketing platform FanBridge recently launched a new feature called Social Digest, which curates the most popular social content from the web in a sleek email digest distributed to fans on a weekly basis, and already it appears to be a hit. Bridging the gap between email marketing and social media: Social Digest is an automated social programming tool that is said to generate (on average) twice the open rate and 3x the click-through rate over industry standards. Social Digest automatically ...

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Veokami Turns Fans into Live Music Camera Crews

Source: HypeBot
September 30, 2011

Veokami was the winner of this year's HackLolla challenge for a project that takes multiple live videos of concert events from YouTube, syncs them up and offers each video as an alternate camera angle. It's not a perfect viewing experience but it's pretty darn cool and worth following as an example of what one can do with YouTube beyond embeds and viewing rooms. Veokami was my favorite entrant to HackLolla and they had some pretty solid competition. At this stage, ...

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Music Aggregators Move from Building Features to Growing Platforms

Source: HypeBot
September 24, 2011

A number of popular music sites like Reelr.tv and Chill, that aggregate content from services such as YouTube and SoundCloud, might well be described as offering a feature rather than a more complete service. Such site tend to be limited in how they can be monetized in contrast to sites that use such an approach to build an audience on their way to creating platforms with broader options for monetization. Web business writers from pundits to venture capital bloggers periodically ...

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One Major Player is Missing from Facebook Music

Source: HypeBot
September 24, 2011

Yesterday Facebook transformed itself into music and media discovery, listening and sharing powerhouse. Via its API, Faccebook welcomed some of music's hottest startups: Spotify, Rdio, Soundcloud and more than a dozen more onto its pages. More will follow soon. But one major player is missing: Apple. For most music fans—particularly the casual ones—Apple provides both the music store and the music palyer of choice. It's not a surprise that Apple is not on board. Without full iTunes integration, music discovery ...

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Google Music Marketing: Will.I.AM on Hangouts, the Johnny Cash Project and Chrome

Source: HypeBot
September 24, 2011

With yesterday's looming debut of new Facebook features and partnerships, it's no wonder that Google+ opened to the general public on Wednesday. That introduction included a shaky Hangouts session with will.i.am but that's just one example of how Google is currently marketing new services with music products, including their Chrome browser and even Google Music Beta. The Johnny Cash Project: Ain't No Grave Wednesday evening, ...

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