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YouTube's Ultimatum and the Economic Survival of Musicians
By copyright and intellectual property attorney Wallace E. J. Collins III, Esq.. YouTube announced that in a matter of days it may begin blocking the videos of some independent record label artists who have refused to sign licensing terms for the platform’s new service. Moreover, indie labels and other content creators who do not sign up ...
5 DIY Music Marketing Myth-Busting Insights
Dotted Music's Andrew Apanov shares his take on music marketing myths with Ilpo Kärkkäinen of Resoundsound. Along the way he busts myths of meritocracy, one-size-fits-all business assumptions and social media number chasing. In the process he shares a number of ideas worth considering on their own. Here are 5 insights he shared in this myth-busting conversation: ...
Amoeba Music's Founder Shares the Secrets of Their Bricks and Mortar Success
Amoeba Music is a bricks and mortar success story with shops in Berkeley, San Francisco and Hollywood. Fast Company recently interviewed Amoeba co-founder Marc Weinstein about what makes Amoeba Music work. He points to a number of factors in their success from having a complementary co-owner to empowering one's employees. But perhaps the best insight of ...
The Beatles Get Deluxe Mono Vinyl Release [ Watch "Making of" Video]
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If vinyl pressing plants were busy before, they are about to be positively overwhelmed as the Beatles mono recordings get a deluxe vinyl re-release.The Beatles in mono: that's how most listeners first heard the group in the 1960s. In early September of this year, The Beatles’ nine U.K. albums, the US compiled Magical Mystery Tour, and ...
How One Generation Was Single-Handedly Able to Kill the Music Industry
Album sales used to be the favorable metric when calculating an artists success or failure, but with that business model long since out the window, new artists are fighting to stay relevant. Through mobile sharing apps, livestreams, and third party downloading sites, millennials have upped the demand intensely over the last decade. Knowing how to meet ...
Spotify + the Echo Nest = New Supercharged API
We get to sample the first fruits of Spotify's acquisition of The Echo Nest today with the launch of its new Web API. Developers will now have the ability to build music apps on and off the Spotify platform that take advantage of the combined Spotify and Echo Nest API's massive collections of music, data and content. Rich ...
iHeartRadio Adds "For You" Genre Feature
From Beats to Pandora “personalized" is streaming music's buzzword of 2014. iHeartRadio, Clear Channel's free digital music service, joined the fray today launching new iOS and Android apps designed to give users a more personalized experience via “enhanced algorithms". Among the updates is “For You”, which adds a genre selection tool for tailored station recommendations. Once ...
Keys to Successfully Launching and Promoting a Music Video
By Corey Rice of The AristoMedia Group. In 1995, Michael Jackson spent $7 million dollars on his music video ‘Scream’ and the world watched on MTV. Two decades later, Bob Dylan made his video ‘Love Is Lost’ for $12.99 and everybody watched it on online. Music videos have changed immensely over the past couple of decades ...
Indie Music Streamer Earbits Shuts Down
Earbits is shutting down today. The free streaming music service enabled artists and labels to “buy" plays, promote and connect with fans. While successful, the model was not generating enough revenue to continue. Despite today's closure, Earbits founder Joey Flores still believes that its a path that other music streamers must take. “If there is anything ...
CEO Ethan Diamond on Bandcamp's Success and Why It's Working
Music Ally spoke recently with Ethan Diamond about the phenomenal success of Bandcamp. In fact, Bandcamp has grown from success to success from indie ecommerce to social destination to streaming music on mobile. It's a company that's based its approach on the needs of the artists and the community and that approach has paid off. Bandcamp ...
