Home » Search Center » Results: HypeBot
Results for "HypeBot"
Ghostship Fire: Mourn The Dead, Fight Like Hell For The Living
In this recent article, Marc Ribot explores how the tragedy at Oakland's GhostShip lofts is indicative of a broader issue concerning the marginalization of working artists. Guest post by Marc Ribot on The Trichordist Marc Ribot is an American Musician and a member of NYC artists rights group MusiciansACTION musiciansaction.org. The initial horror evoked by Oakland’s GhostShip fire ...
Merlin Works To Make Independents Equal With Majors On Streaming Services [INTERVIEW]
![Merlin Works To Make Independents Equal With Majors On Streaming Services [INTERVIEW]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/allaboutjazz/photos/logo/hypebotlogo2015.jpg){kind=logo}
Charles Caldas discusses Merlin, an organization which works to help the independent label community battle for maximum compensation from digital streaming services like YouTube and Spotify, as well as combat online music piracy. Guest Post from Pias Charles Caldas has to be many things to the independent label community—a valuable mix of diplomat, mediator, champion, dealmaker ...
Major Labels, Streaming Music Services Endorse Competing Hi-Resolution Audio Formats @CES
High resolution audio, which delivers sound quality comparable to the original master studio recordings, offers an opportunity for both record labels and music streamers to increase revenue if—and it's a big if—the many stakeholders can settle on a single hi-res format. At CES today, all three major labels and streaming music services Pandora, Napster/Rhapsody and HD ...
4 Things I Would’ve Done Differently In My Successful Music Crowdfunding Campaign
Here Chris Robley describes four things that he would've done differently in the wake a crowdfunding campaign campaign which, although successful, could have been improved upon for an even better experience. Guest post by Chris Robley of CD Baby's DIY Musician Early in 2016 I released my first new album in five years. It felt great to shake ...
Booking A Tour? Why Not Book Two?
Booking a DIY tour can be a painful and arduous task, but is a necessary one. Here Jeremy Young explains why, when doing so, it can actually be beneficial to go ahead and organize two at the same time. Guest Post by Jeremy Young on Soundfly's Flypaper For most independent artists out there, or any artists ...
Audio Streaming Is Growing MUCH Faster Than Video [CHART]
Competition in music streaming is coming from all sides with Amazon, Google and Pandora and more expanding their services to compete with Spotify and Apple Music. Despite the fact that most of these services currently loose money, explosive growth suggests a bright future ahead. According to a new BuzzAngle report, on-demand audio jumped 82.6% year-over-year in 2016 to ...
SESAC Sold To Blackstone, A Private Equity Firm Known For Leveraged Buyouts, Credit Default Swaps
U.S. music performing rights and rights management organization SESAC has been acquired by one the country's biggest private equity and investment groups, Blackstone. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. SESAC, the only one of the three top U.S. performing rights organizations to operate as a for profit privately owned business, has been acquired from Rizvi ...
Track Your Direct-to-Fan Music and Merch Sales with Flyt's Free Url Shortener
Flyt, a new tool for artists and labels looking for help navigating a direct-to-fan sales landscape, flyt acts a url shortener and sales tracker for artists using services like Shopify and Magento. Guest post by Clyde Smith If you're a musician or label seeking new tools to navigate a rapidly changing direct-to-fan sales landscape, flyt is ...
2016: A Look Back At Deaths In Music
In this mournful but important look back at a tragedy filled 2016, the Soundfly Team take a moment to remember and reflect on the all to numerous contributors to the music industry who passed away during the year and the legacy which they left behind. Guest Post by the Soundfly Team on Flypaper Well, it’s that ...
Google Rumored To Be Interested In Acquiring SoundCloud, Pandora Seeking Alternative Suitors To Sirius XM
Spotfify is prepping a major IPO. But on day 3 of 2017, that's already looking unlikely to be the year's biggest story in music streaming. Google is reportedly sniffing around SoundCloud, even as Pandora's money folks search for a buyer. Google is interested in buying SoundCloud, according to multiple sources. While we can't measure the accuracy ...
