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Crowd Factory Marketing Apps Gain Traction with Major Music Companies

Source: HypeBot
June 3, 2011

Crowd Factory, a software as a service company focused on social marketing tools, recently introduced a new function for their Social Offer service that enables quick creation of landing pages for group deals and social campaigns on the web and Facebook. This rounds out their suite of “crowd-powered marketing apps" already in use at a number of major music companies. The cost of Social Offer is not low, starting at $1500 a month, but that's still less than a programmer ...

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Simfy Beats Spotify, Everyone Else to Facebook

Source: HypeBot
June 3, 2011

Quietly, streaming music service simfy has beaten Spotify and other rumored music services onto Facebook. For now the simfy Player for Facebook is only available to German, Austrian, and Swiss users, but the company says it will expand into other territories in the third quarter and offer the Facebook player in those countries as well. You can see the player on their Facebook page here, though it won't play outside of the three territories. Users can listen to and share ...

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CBS to Relaunch mp3.com as Indie Music Companion Site to Last.FM

Source: HypeBot
June 3, 2011

MP3.com is reportedly being relaunched at the end of this month as a site for unsigned and independent music. CBS acquired the site, launched in 1997 by Michael Robertson, when it bought CNET in 2008; and now plans to leverage it alongside its Last.fm online music property. MP3.com “is an interesting brand as it has global recognition and still gets around 3m unique visits on a monthly basis," CBS Interactive Music Group president David Goodman told Music Week. “It's mainly ...

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SoundCloud Adds Tumblr Integration

Source: HypeBot
June 2, 2011

SoundCloud just added easy integration with popular micro-blogging platform Tumblr. SoundCloud claims more than four million sound creators and Tumblr hosts nearly 20 million blogs. DETAILS & NEW FEATURES: SoundCloud users can now record on-the-fly and share it to their Tumblr blog using SoundCloud's mobile and desktop apps or directly from the browser. Possible applications for music marketers could include impromptu mini-interviews, live music and conversations with fans. Tumblr users wanting to create an audio post can now search, preview ...

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Mark Mulligan: How Zuckerberg is Using Music to Keep Facebook from 'Doing a Myspace'

Source: HypeBot
June 2, 2011

This guest post comes from independent music analyst Mark Mulligan.. Facebook is rumoured to be on the verge of integrating a number of music services including Spotify into its platform. The 'when will Facebook take on iTunes' question is one which refuses to go away, but it's the wrong question to ask. Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want to take on iTunes, in fact he wants to co-exist. Facebook, as the early-follower of social networking allowed first movers like MySpace to make ...

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What Apple's Licensed Cloud Music Service Will Have That Google and Amazon Don't

Source: HypeBot
June 1, 2011

(UPDATED) Google and Apple both recently launched cloud music services without licenses from labels and publishers. The result for both are online music storage services rather than a multi-featured cloud music system. In the last few days a glimpse of the advantages that Apple's music cloud will offer when it officially launches on June 6th because the company waited to negotiate licences are starting to leak. Apple has reportedly struck deals with EMI, WMG and Sony and talks are ongoing ...

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mSpot Launches Combined Cloud Music Locker, Streaming Radio

Source: HypeBot
May 27, 2011

With Google, Amazon and likely Apple getting into the cloud music business, mobile music provider mSpot might have a hard time competing. So today the upstart launched Radio Spotter Beta - the first service to combine a cloud music and storage locker service with streaming radio. Radio Spotter is available Android users in the US. The company says that iPhone, PC, Mac and other internet connected device support will be offered later in 2011. In addition to the cloud music ...

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Facebook and Spotify Partner for New Streaming Music Service

Source: HypeBot
May 26, 2011

Facebook and Spotify are partnering on a streaming music service that could launch as early as next month in countries where the music site has deal, according to Forbes. The association is part of Facebook's long term strategy to become an essential hub for its users—messaging, email, news movies and now music. Details: Facebook users will see a Spotify icon appear on the left side of their newsfeed, according to sources. Click on it and the Spotify will install on ...

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