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Digital Money for Music: Tip Jar That Takes Plastic, Websites That Take Bitcoin
To paraphrase Amanda Palmer, people want to give you their money so make sure you can take it. DipJar is a tipjar that takes tips via credit cards. It's designed as a self-serve solution for coffee shops and similar settings and suggests one possible solution for street musicians in a cashless society. Accepting payment in digital ...
How to Grow Your Band's Fanbase Creatively
By Yannick Ilunga from The Jazz Spotlight. This is probably old news to you: social media is a great way to build and grow a fan base. When looking for a platform to promote their music, many artists turn to the various Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. When it comes to social media promotion, it is important ...
The 5 Most Frequently Signed Music Publishing Deals
By Hugh McIntyre from the Sonicbids Blog. Music publishing is something that many small artists don’t think about, and, to be honest, some of them don’t need to. If you're truly just starting out in music, focusing on getting the word out and racking up a good number of listens comes before delving too deeply into ...
Bop.FM Tipping Point: Pandora, Xbox Music, Rhapsody and Napster Added
Bop.fm specializes in “service-agnostic playlists" allowing you to send a song link to a friend who can listen to it without having the same music service subscriptions that you have. Starting out as a somewhat better variation on overlapping trends, Bop.fm has steadily added key music streaming services from Spotify to Deezer. Now they're covering most ...
Who Still Buys Music in 2014? [infographic]
Even with the plethora of free and almost free music along with the zillion track libraries available to anyone willing to shell out just $5 - $10 a month, there still some people that pay for music. I'm one of those who buys to support my favorite musicians, but who else? MusicWatch with just 10 years ago. ...
U2 Working with Apple on "New Digital Music Format" That Assures Artists Get Paid Again
U2 is working with Apple to create a new digital music format that would assure that songwriters and artists get paid for creating music. Their plans “might just save the music industry," according to a preview of a Time Magazine cover story posted online Thursday morning. Time reporter Catherine Mayer spent the last week with the ...
The "Me" Generation: Why Music Curation Isn't the Answer
By Michael E. Spinelli, founder of Eventsnype. In a recent interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook dubbed Beats co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre “creative geniuses.” The justification CEO Tim Cook gave for acquiring Beats for $3 billion was the recognition that “human curation was important in the subscription service – that the sequencing of songs that ...
Watch David Letterman Mock the Eagles for Refusing to License Their Music
Late Night's David Letterman was taking an audience member to an Eagles show in New York that night and wanted Paul Schaffer and his house band to play some music from the band. According to the show's producers, they were told The Eagles have a “flat no policy for television." Watch Letterman skewer the band: ...
How to Promote Your Music Using Google's Hangouts on Air
By Yannick Ilunga from CD Baby's DIY Musician. When it comes to online promotion, there is a social media that is often ignored by musicians: . While its potential has been recognized and utilized by many entrepreneurs around the world, for quite many musicians Google Plus is still unexplored territory. However, while it is true that ...
The Growing Power of Internet Radio
From Dash Two. Did you know that more than half of Americans listen to Internet Radio? Of this population, 39% choose personalized radio, 27% prefer streaming live, and 18% is into on-demand music. As more and more innovative tech start-ups jump into the game for a piece of the American music business, we might be witnessing ...
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