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New MP3.com is Live: Another Place to Give Your Music Away for Free

Source: HypeBot
June 22, 2011

Confirming weeks of rumors,CBS has relaunched MP3.com. Free music is at the center of the new site along with music and music tech content drawn primarily from CBS owned properties Last.fm and CNet. While the new MP3.com is focused primarily on free downloads and streams of indie music, free tracks from Britney Spears, My Morning Jacket and a few other major artists are also available for a limited time. It's not clear that the offering is unique enough to draw ...

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Vibedeck Raises $2 Million for Free, No Fee Music Sales Platform

Source: HypeBot
June 21, 2011

(UPDATED) VibeDeck announced today that it had raised $2 million from a private investor to develop its direct-to-fan e-commerce platform for musicians. The deal was struck on April 2nd and the website launched a month later in beta. VibeDeck provides a free service for musicians to publish customizable web pages to sell or giveaway digital tracks. They don't take a cut of sales. Rather, payments flow directly into the user's PayPal account making funds and transaction data immediately available. Is ...

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Pimp Your Site: Hello Bar vs. Wibiya Web Toolbar

Source: HypeBot
June 18, 2011

While social networks are critical for music marketing, all musicians should have a home site under their control in order to offer a rich reservoir of news, content and such features as merch shops. However, it's sometimes a challenge to decide how best to alert users to the latest news or encourage their deeper engagement with one's content as they land, check out the most obvious material and move on. Two free tools with which I've started experimenting, the Hello ...

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Illegal Downloading, Illegal Streaming: Really, What's the Difference?

Source: Digital Music News
June 17, 2011

Hollywood is finally bringing its big guns to Capitol Hill; the studios are freaking out! Just today, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Commercial Felony Streaming Act, a measure that would treat illegal streaming sites the same as illegal download sites (and P2Ps). Both would be subject to felony charges, instead of misdemeanors currently given to those delivering unauthorized on-demand streams of television shows and movies. The measure, sponsored by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), now goes ...

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DIYgigs.com - Should This Site Be Saved?

Source: HypeBot
June 17, 2011

I recently came across DIYgigs.com and thought it was a great idea. Basically it's a free site that allows people to list venues with contact information, update the posted info and rate the venues from the band's perspective. Something I've been thinking about but these guys actually created it. Then I realized that the listings were kind of thin and, after searching for reviews of the site itself, discovered that it had launched in 2009. Given that the site has ...

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Share Your Best Music Marketing Ideas and Win Bob Baker's New "Guerrilla Music Marketing Online"

Source: HypeBot
June 15, 2011

To celebrate the release of his eight book, and third in the Guerrilla Music Marketing series, author Bob Baker is giving Hypebot readers a chance to win free copies of “Guerrilla Music Marketing Online". Here's how you can win: In the comments section below, post your best Internet-related guerrilla music marketing idea by Midnight on Sunday June 19th.. Bob will select the Top 5 (or more) ideas. The two best submissions will get an autographed copy of the paperback ...

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Quick Guide to Timing Twitter and Facebook Posts

Source: HypeBot
June 15, 2011

"Social media scientist" Dan Zarrella knows a lot about social media marketing. Recently he created a 60 minute webinar, “The Science of Timing," that draws on his last couple of years of research to explain the best times to send emails, post on blogs, update your Facebook status and post new tweets on Twitter. For this post I'll focus on his tips for Twitter and Facebook and save the data on email and blog posts for a later encounter. Dan's ...

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