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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Abandon Text, Go Visual to Drive Traffic

Source: HypeBot
May 17, 2011

Scott Perry, in his excellent free newsletter and site New Music Tipsheet, advises using more picture posts to drive traffic to your band's site and Facebook page: “I know studies can tell you the actual percentage of engagement among text vs picture posts, but I see it every day in my own feeds. When I post text-only to my Facebook feed, I get a couple of replies. But I post an intesting pic, and damn if the replies & likes ...

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Bjork: New Interactive Website

Source: JamBase
May 14, 2011

ICELAND'S FINEST HAS A NEW PLAYGROUND Bjork has re-launched www.bjork.com as a brand new website to tie in with the start of her groundbreaking 'Biophilia' campaign; her forthcoming exploration of music, nature and technology. Using the very latest HTML5 technology the site is heavily animated and interactive. It features a unique immersive 3D galaxy with versions that can be enjoyed on almost all devices. Visitors can use their mouse and keyboard to “fly" through a virtual 3D space environment as ...

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Music in the Cloud: Battle for the Celestial Jukebox

Source: HypeBot
May 13, 2011

Yesterday Bruce wrote about “How Google & Amazon Hurt Recorded Music By Launching Cloud Lockers“. Today Clyde Smith weighs in. With the recent debuts of cloud-based music storage services with streaming abilities from Amazon and Google, plus something on the way from Apple, talk of the cloud has moved from the business side to the consumer side. We'll be hearing lots of marketing speak in the coming days as if the cloud was something brand new and magical that will ...

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Highlights from SF Musictech: Tools, Tech, Revenue, Recommendation, Live and the Cloud

Source: HypeBot
May 12, 2011

Plenty of solid discussion filled the walls of the Kabuki Hotel on Monday where the eighth SF MusicTech Summit was held. Strong panelists and bright attendees all contributed to meaningful dialogue that left those of us in attendance with lots to think about. Here were some of the highlights: Tools Dean Serletic of Music Mastermind shared that major label artists are looking more towards social media now in order to make up for a loss of marketing budgets, which has now ...

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Official.FM Raises $8 Million to Expand D.I.Y. Musician Platform

Source: HypeBot
May 12, 2011

Yesterday Hypebot called Geneva based Official.fm one of the 10 Smartest Startups At SF MusicTech. Now Official.fm has announced that they've received an additional $8 million in funding to build what they call “the world's most advanced do-it-yourself platform for music creators & content owners." No source of the funding was named. What is Offcial.fm? Official.fm enables content creators and owners to upload their music and assets once and spread it to download stores and other music services global music ...

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Skype is Now More Valuable Than the Entire US Recording Industry...

Source: Digital Music News
May 11, 2011

Amount Microsoft paid for Skype, 2011: $8.5 billion. US-based Recording Industry Revenues, 2010: $6.85 billion. Technology eviscerates again? Skype was originally created by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (among others), also the original brains and entrepreneurs behind Kazaa. The distributed, peer-to-peer architecture of Kazaa heavily informed the Skype architecture—in fact, the name Skype is a modification of the words 'sky' and 'peer-to-peer.' Zennstrom and Friis ultimately minted billions by selling to eBay (in 2005), and a consortium of investors minted ...

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musiXmatch Raises $3.7m for Lyrics API

Source: HypeBot
May 10, 2011

Lyrics API announced today at SF Music Tech that it has raised $3.7 million in Series A funding from Francesco Micheli Associates. The funds wll enable musiXmatch to expand their lyrics offering whch the company says includes 5.3 million lyrics and features the first lyrics API to fully provide international rights management. Localized in more than 18 languages, the musiXmatch lyrics API enables online music services to use officially licensed lyrics and music metadata. The company already has partnerships with ...

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Rootmusic Upgrades Free and Paid BandPages Facebook App

Source: HypeBot
May 7, 2011

RootMusic has released a major upgrade for both free and paid users of its BandPages Facebook app. BandPage is the social network's #1 music app with 150,000 musicians driving 22 million active monthly users. 50% of the top 100 artists on Facebook use BandPage, according to the company. BandPage Basic users now have access to free banner and color customization, mailing lists, hyperlinked banner and 'like to listen' functionality. BandPage Plus paid users also get a fan-only banner, banner video, ...

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