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Amazon Is Eyeing U.S. Ticketing Business
Amazon is reportedly seeking to become a source for event tickets in a move that may challenge Ticketmaster's dominance of the ticketing business. According to Reuters, Amazon sees the U.S. ticketing market as a “ripe" field for business development by the e-commerce giant, driven by consumer dislike of ticket fees and venue owners and sports leagues ...
Join The World's First Live Facebook Festival - A Call To Artists and Fans
In this latest post to MusicThinkTank, we look at Right Chord Music's creation of a new type of music festival, that harnesses the power of Facebook Live, inviting bands and artists from around the world to occupy their Facebook newsfeed in an innovative live music experience. Harnessing the power of Facebook Live, new music blog Right Chord ...
Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen Just Doesn’t Get It (Unless He Does?)
Steely Dan's Donald Fagen was recently quoted griping about how he is no longer making enough money from his recorded music, and although it's hard to feel too badly for someone as financially successful as Fagen, his frustration does provide us with an interesting snapshot of music revenue overtime. Guest post by William Paterson University Professor David Philp from Musicbiz ...
SoundCloud Saved By Emergency $169.5M Investment As CEO Ljung Steps Aside [OFFICIAL]
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SoundCloud has closed an emergency round of funding that will allow the struggling streamer stay online, Co-founder and CEO Alex Ljung will step aside as a new leadership team takes control. SoundCloud has closed a reported $169.5 million emergency in funding that allows the struggling streamer and audio hub to stay online. Co-founder Alex Ljung will ...
6 Ways To Get Fans To Take More Photos At Your Show, And Why It's Important
In this post, Hugh McIntyre explores six different techniques for getting attendees at concerts to take more pictures at your next show, and why having photos taken is important for marketing and growing a fanbase. Guest post by Hugh McIntyre of the TuneCore Blog [Editors Note: This blog post was written by Hugh McIntyre . Hugh writes about music ...
'1984', New Rembrandt And Spotify's 'Fake Artists'
Life appears to be imitating art as a number of strange parallels between the dystopian George Orwell novel 1984 have begun to manifest in the form of fake art and fake artists designed to entertain the masses. Guest post by Laura Kobylecky from Music Technology Policy “It was only an ‘opeless fancy. It passed like an Ipril dye, But ...
Disney Pulls Content From Netflix To Start Own Paid Service. Could The Same Siloing Happen In Music?
Disney is pulling much of its core content from Netflix, so that it can launch its own paid streaming service. Could this happen in music? Universal execs say that they don't believe in “exclusive" releases on specific music streamers But what if the world's largest label group pulled all of its music off Spotify, Apple Music ...
4 Steps To Building Community Engagement On And Offline
As an artist, success is all about building a community for yourself, and learning to successfully leverage your influence within that community. Here we look at the four steps DIY artists should follow in order to engage both online and off with a community of fans. Guest post by Angela Mastrogiacomo of the ReverbNation Blog Have you ...
How The YouTube Algorithm Works: A Guide To Getting More Views
At over a billion users, YouTube has become a key component of any artist's online marketing strategy. This means it's important to play ball and work with the platforms algorithm to increase the number of views your videos receive. Guest post by Ric Mazereeuw, originally published on the Hootsuite blog. With more than one billion users—or nearly one-third of ...
WMG Reports Strong Q3 Driven By Streaming Revenue
Warner Music Group Corp. today announced third quarter financial results for the period ending June 30, 2017. It was WMG's strongest quarter in years. Net income was $143 million, compared to a $7 million loss in the prior-year quarter. Total revenue grew 13.1% or was up 15.5% in constant currency. Digital revenue grew 30.2% or was up ...
