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YouTube Dips Toe Into Social E-Commerce With Ticketmaster Partnership
A recent announcement by YouTube has revealed that the popular video sharing site will be allowing Ticketmaster to use its site to connect users directly with tickets. While the deal is non-exclusive it does represent a move by Google to begin diversifying away from advertising revenue. Guest post by Zach Fuller of Midia YouTube has announced ...
Solving the Music Startup Catch-22
The difficulty, time and cost of licensing music has stymied an untold number of startups and scared off countless more investors. Crunch Digital has created a solution. Their Digital Music Sandbox will offer music startups a direct conduit to limited term music licensing without advances or minimum guarantees; and founder Keith Bernstein shares an advance look ...
YouTube's Lyor Cohen To Keynote Music Biz Convention In Nashville
Often controversial music industry veteran Lyor Cohen, the Global Head of Music at YouTube and Founder of music content company 300, will keynote the Music Business Association’s Music Biz 2018 conference at the Omni Nashville Hotel. Cohen will discuss his career journey, his current role at YouTube and Google and his thoughts on the future of the music business. ...
Q&A With Downtown Records Noah Jackson
In this interview Noah Jackson, content and social media strategist at Downtown Records, discusses the importance of artists keeping up with marketing tech, as well as the value of messenger bots and strategies for getting them to work effectively. Guest post Veselina Gerova of The Message Can you tell us a bit about yourself and what ...
FCC Released Its Net Neutrality Killing Order, Hoping You Were Too Busy Cooking Turkey To Read It
"The FCC is trying to use the Thanksgiving holiday to distract the press and public from its blatant handout to one of the least liked and least competitive industries in America," writes Karl Bode of Techdirt, “Trying to bury such an epic middle finger to consumers behind the cranberry sauce is an obvious underestimation of just how unpopular ...
Digital Music Distributor Symphonic Scores $4 Million Investment From Ballast Point Ventures
Tampa based Symphonic Distribution has secured a $4 million investment from Ballast Point Ventures (BPV). Symphonic will use the investment to add to its sales force, bolster its marketing and enhance its product capabilities. After 10 years as a bootstrapped company, Symphonic Distribution found a venture capital firm that it wanted to partner with. The digital ...
Contrary To Predictions, Blockchain May Not Be The Future Of The Music Industry [Bobby Owsinski]
Over the past couple of years, a number of articles have surfaced in the music business world touting blockchain tech as the saviour of the music industry which will finally allow artists to get paid. This may be wishful thinking however, argues Bobby Owsinski, who offers several reasons why blockchain isn't the answer to musicians' prayers. ...
5 Lessons From A Music Business Supermensch
\Here talent manager and producer Shep Gordon shares five important lessons from his autobiography They Call Me Supermensch, which details his series of misadventures as an artist manager beginning in the 1970s. Guest post by Stephanie Grimes of William Patterson University from Musicbiz 101 Shep Gordon’s story begins as a boy growing up in Oceanside, Long Island who spent ...
Roy Orbison Heirs File Lawsuit To Stop Concert Hologram Project
Heirs of Roy Orbison have filed a lawsuit to block what they say is a shakedown by a hologram company owned by Greek billionaire Alkiviades David. New technology often leads to legal battles, and with music related holograms, augmented reality and virtual reality all gaining traction, we expect a plethora of lawsuits over who controls rights ...
People Are Spending 15 Hours A Week On The Internet Outside Of Work
People are spending a lot of time online, according to the latest Limelight Networks’ “State of User Experience” report. 54% of US consumers are now spending more than 15 hours outside of work on the internet each week. Here are the main online activities and behaviors: US consumers spend each week: on social media sites (4 hrs, ...
