Home » Search Center » Results: HypeBot
Results for "HypeBot"
Bandcamp CEO on the Best Way to Support Artists, Bootstrapping a Profitable Startup
Six years ago, Ethan Diamond co-founded Bandcamp to offer musicians an affordable way to stream and sell their music directly to fans. By starting small and determined to stay independent, Bandcamp has built something uniquely pure and useful for both artists and fans. Already a profitable company, Bandcamp pays out $3 million monthly to artists and small ...
Getting Gigs, PT. 2: The Hunt for Bookings
By Yannick Ilunga from The Jazz Spotlight. This is the second of a three-part article (in case you haven’t yet, check out the first part What To Do Before You Start Looking). As discussed in the first part, before start looking for gigs you should: have your music available on digital format have an active online ...
How to Fix Streaming Music's Business Model
Op-ed by David Lowery of The Trichordist. It’s not that streaming can’t work. It can. It’s that Spotify is a bad business model that has unsustainable economics and exploits artists because it is a wall street financial instrument and not a music company. We’ve previously published a couple posts on streaming music where we explore how access ...
Musicians, Labels Save Money Using Tax Credits to Finance Recordings
By Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0. Increasingly, music producers are looking for State tax credits before embarking on a project. While this has been a big part of television and movie production for some time, music is now seeing the light in how cost-effective it could be to go somewhere besides Los Angeles and New York to ...
Music PR is About Building Relationships Not a Mailing List
Don't get me wrong, mailing lists are important, especially optin email lists of your fans who really want to hear from you regularly. But lists of people, whether fans, writers or influencers, can give one a false sense that your public relations all come down to distributing a regular email. Brian Solis and Hugh MacLeod recently ...
Amazon to Open Physical Store in Manhattan, Success Could Lead to More Retail Space for Music
Until now, at least for me, the face of Amazon has been images of Jeff Bezos and a variety of local delivery personnel from the UPS, USPS and Fed Ex. Now Amazon is making a move that will put some New Yorkers face to face with Amazon employees. The store will be located not far from ...
Ask Your Fans About Your Big Music Project Before You Commit All Your Resources
By Bobby Borg from the Sonicbids Blog. Testing and feedback is the process of getting your music into presentable form, trying it out on your most likely fans, and making necessary improvements before committing your time and money manufacturing, distributing, and promoting it. Without market research, you could easily spend thousands of your hard-earned dollars recording ...
Dear Musicians: Most Fans Don't Really Care About You, Says Midia Study
By Mark Mulligan from Music Industry Blog. The plight of artists and songwriters grappling with download dollars transforming into streaming cents is well documented and a series of long term, sustainable solutions are needed (I wrote about some here). The debate occurs alongside an assumption that there is widespread concern for the creators’ and their livelihood. ...
Soundcloud Rightsholder Discussions Hit Impasse, Labels Question Site's Future
Social music platform SoundCloud's efforts to find a sustainable business model have hit a major roadblock. Talks with the three major label groups have stalled, according to new reports, because rightsholders are not satisfied with the royalties that SoundCloud is offering. Communications with Universal were reportedly cut off more than two weeks ago. The Pressure Mounts ...
Equipboard's Gear Database for Musicians is Actually a Much Bigger Play
Equipboard is an interesting new startup that, on the face of it, is a crowdsourced site for posting the gear musicians use. But when you dig in you see it's quite a bit more than that combining multiple sources for gear identification but also fashion spotting and ecommerce. In addition, Equipboard is now including a broader ...
![Full Moon [Feat. New York Voices, Mark Egan]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/allaboutjazz/coverart/large/a07a6f1d5edcd6c801f0e1c3b527da37.jpg)
