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Amazon Buying Twitch for $970 Million, Google Misses Another Social Opportunity
"Sources" fell flat on this one. It was widely rumored, though Variety is generally credited with first, that Google was buying Twitch Interactive and it would be somehow connected to their YouTube empire. Instead Amazon yesterday announced an agreement to acquire Twitch. The video network, which features people playing video games, has a huge audience and ...
Tastebuds.FM Acquires Moosify
Music based find-a-friend and dating app Tastebuds.fm has acquired competitor Moosify. Both apps facilitate introductions based on musical taste. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It's apparently a user and tech based acquisition with about 100,000 users being transitioned from Moosify to Tastebuds in the the coming days. “We’ve been in contact with the guys ...
McDonald's Big Digital Push Includes Music as a Customer Reward
A series of new hires and job listings for McDonald's Global Digital Team are catching attention as business writers and competitors consider their plans to create an ecommerce platform and offer music as a reward to loyal customers. While most positions are based at McDonald's Oak Brook, Illinois headquarters, the opening for a Product Director, Music ...
Declaration of a New Alternative: No Pop
By Toronto music blogger/reviewer The Lonely Vagabond. In the digital age, in the age of social media, in an age where the music business model has virtually disappeared, the silos between eras and genres no longer exist. Commercial and non-commercial is the new paradigm. In a brief moment of inspiration I coined a new term, No Pop. ...
Building Your Music Career While Keeping Your Day Job
By Farah Joan Fard from the SonicBids Blog. Does going to your 9-5 and then playing a gig that night ever make you feel like a Clark Kent/Superman combo? Do you feel like there's not enough time in the day for both your full-time job and your musical duties? You’re not alone. Balancing a day job ...
Band Accepts NFL Pay to Play Plan, Offers $2 Million for Superbowl Halftime
As we reported earlier this week, the NFL is asking artists to pay for the privilege of playing their widely watched Superbowl halftime show. Industry response has been tepid, accept from one band. UK rockers You Me At Six are offering $2 million to perform. Here's their open letter to the NFL: Dear NFL: We’re sorry ...
SoundExchange Q2 Payments up 8% to $161 Million
The shift in revenue from sales to streaming continues with SoundExchange paying $161 million in the last quarter to artists and labels. It the largest Q2 payment to date and an 8% increase in payments from 2,500 digital radio services in Q2 2013 to Q2 2014. SoundExchange second quarter 2014 highlights: $161 million paid directly to artists and labels ...
The Rise of Indie Streaming
By Peter Getty. Streaming music is a music lover’s dream. We now have access to the work of a wide range of artists, either for free (with ads) or for a small monthly fee. Popular artists are even making money on the model, with heavy rotation with services like Pandora, Beats, and Spotify. For smaller artists, ...
Twitter's Head of Music: "Think Like a Fan" [transcript]
Bob Moczydlowsky has built his career around helping artists grow an audience; first as SVP, Product & Marketing for D2F platform Topspin and now as Twitter's Head Of Music. His experience give his remarks at a recent TedEx event some weight; so we had them transcribed. He shares simple and straightforward advice that's worth paying attention to: When I ...
One Musician Gets a Record Deal Through Tinder, Another Can Pay Her Rent Solely from Youtube
Here are two stories about musicians doing well that could be described as social media success stories. But Ryn Weaver's claim that “Tinder got me a record deal" is a bit misleading. And, while it's conceivable that Shannon Hurley could make money via activities on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, YouTube enabled her success by ...
