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F8 Keynote: Music and Media Apps Dominate New Facebook Timeline

Source: HypeBot
September 23, 2011

Despite the leaks and rumors, I in no way expected what I saw in Facebook's F8 Keynote presentation today. They are taking their game to a whole new level fueled, in part, by music and media apps. I'm going to summarize things as best I can focused on music before checking out the 3:30 PM EST presentation on The Future of Digital Music and summarizing that. A SUMMARY OF MUSIC ON FACEBOOK: Some fun things with Andy Samberg kicking things ...

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Facebook F8 Future of Digital Music Panel w/ Troy Carter, Daniel Ek and Bob Pittman

Source: HypeBot
September 23, 2011

The Future of Digital Music panel at Facebook's F8 conference was a bit disappointing due to the fact that they didn't actually address the future till the last question and that's when things got a bit more interesting. It was quick and fragmented but I've gathered some of the highlights. The Future of Digital Music panel was moderated by Justin Osofsky, Director, Platform Partnerships at Facebook. Panelists included Troy Carter, Lady Gaga's manager, Daniel Ek, Spotify Founder and CEO, and ...

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1 Day Before Facebook Music Launch, Here's How Big Impact It Can Have [stats]

Source: HypeBot
September 22, 2011

The day before Facebook Music launches at F8, there has been an overwhelming amount of speculation about just how big an impact it will have on music and the music industry.  Sticking just to their own published numbers, the reach and the potential impact of Facebook Music are enormous: People on Facebook:

More than 750 million active users 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day Average user has 130 friends People spend over 700 ...

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DRUM! Magazine Founders Roll Out Industry-Specific Enter Music Network With Leading Percussive Partner Sites

Source: JCM Media
September 20, 2011

San Jose, CA: Over the last 20 years, Phil Hood and Andy Doerschuk, the founders of Enter Music Publishing have published one of the most well-respected innovative music magazines in the industry, DRUM!. Now, the duo, demonstrating their creativity once again, has launched The Enter Music Network (EMN) entermusicnetwork.com, an industry specific ad network comprised of the top sites for drummers and percussionists. EMN's Reach The EMN is a group of nine web sites that together offer advertisers the ability ...

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How to Use Email to Promote Your Music Without Alienating Your Audience

Source: We All Make Music
September 17, 2011

For a moment, just imagine that you received an email about this very article, and that the email read as follows: To: WeAllMakeMusic_Reader From: [email protected] Subject: New Article Just Published! Hey %$firstname$%, How are you? Week's going great here, and hope yours is, too. There's a new article up on the site. Please consider reading it, and telling people about it. If you want to excerpt a paragraph, please use paragraph six—it's cleared for your blog or magazine. And if ...

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Techdirt's Masnick Sees New Era of Hope for Music Industry at SF MusicTech

Source: HypeBot
September 16, 2011

There was a major shift at this year's SF MusicTech from complaining to actions and looking back to pushing forward, according to Techdirt's Mike Masnick: “What struck me wasn't necessarily what was being discussed, but what was not being discussed. Unlike past such events, there was no major label presence (if they were there, they were hidden). There was also no talk about piracy. I honestly can't recall it coming up even once on a panel or in a discussion... ...

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A Musicians Guide to Managing Your Online Brand

Source: HypeBot
September 16, 2011

By now it should be more than obvious that as an artist or a band member, you need to be thinking about how you can leverage the power of blogging and social media to create a strong brand, an ever expanding online presence and a growing fan base (both in terms of loyalty and size). While social media and blogging offer an incredible amount of opportunity to organically grow a meaningful brand through positive fan interaction and social sharing, there ...

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ThingLink Adds Ecommerce to Photo Tagging with Topspin, iTunes, Soundcloud and More

Source: HypeBot
September 15, 2011

ThingLink, a company offering free embedded photo tagging with links to a variety of social media and music services, has added ecommerce links to their offering. Now you can add links to your Topspin store, iTunes downloads and third party options via SoundCloud to photos used across the web. ThingLink's Rich Media Tagging service offers a way to turn your web photos into a platform for connecting to additional media. Previous integrations have made it easy to embed links to ...

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