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Who Needs Ticketmaster? Eventbrite Sold 58 Million D.I.Y. Tickets in 2013
Online d.i.y. ticketing company Eventbrite is reporting 60% growth last year. The company says it sold 58 million tickets in 2013, with a total value of $960 million. 2.9 million events sold tickets on the Eventfrite platform last year. Most of them were smaller grassroots affairs like Dan Pierson's New York City based Subway Sets, created after he was ...
Beats Music is Here: The Full Launch Press Release
Beats, the new streaming music service founded by Interscope chief Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre, Luke Wood, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Ian Rogers, will launch January 21st. (Launch details here.) Built on the skeleton of MOG which parent Beats Electronics bought more than a year ago, the company shared details in this official release: BEATS MUSIC IS ...
10 Ways Legal Recreational Marijuana Could Help the Music Industry
As Colorado pushes the U.S. a tiny bit closer to rational drug laws, it's high time to consider the potential positive effects on the music industry of legal recreational marijuana. I'll focus my comments on the U.S. and what might happen here if recreational marijuana was legalized. My belief is that such a move could have ...
Broadcast Radio is Growing in the U.S., Especially Non-Commercial FM
Last week the FCC released a quarterly report on the number of currently licensed broadcast stations. Radio Survivor puts the numbers in long-term perspective to show that this year's growth in U.S. radio stations is part of a 20 year trend. While AM stations slipped, FM grew especially in the educational radio sector that includes college, ...
How to Land a Synch [A.K.A. Song Placement] in an Ad, T.V. Show or Film [Emily White]
By Emily White of Whitesmith Entertainment, Readymade Records & Dreamfuel. Back in the day, associating one’s music with advertisements was basically the most sell-out move an artist could make. So much so that Neil Young parodied those who did so in his 1988 song and video, “This Note’s For You." A decade later, Moby shattered this ...
How Soundcloud Can Move Beyond Music to be the Sound Sharing Platform It Wishes It Was
Yesterday SoundCloud launched a new messaging system but while it adds some communication options it's not the collaborative move forward I imagined. In fact, my own initial confusion caused me to step back and consider how SoundCloud's user interface connects to their bigger vision. It strikes me as being at an in-between place, which makes sense, ...
U.S. Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality: What It Means for Music, FOMC Reacts
A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down key parts of the FCC's Open Internet rules, saying that the agency does not have the power to require internet service providers to treat all traffic equally. If upheld, the ruling could have a major effect on innovation in music online. Most music tech startups deliver bandwidth heavy content ...
Beats Music to Launch January 21st [official]
Beats Music, the streaming music service founded by Interscope chief Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre, Luke Wood, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Ian Rogers, will launch January 21st, according to an official announcement from the Beats Electronics subsidiary. Beats Music launches in a competitive sector as a premium service: there is no free tier like most of rivals, ...
What Indie Musicians Can Learn from Efforts to Rescue Radio
Doc Searls is known for his insights into business and the web dating back even further than “The Cluetrain Manifesto." His recent post, “How to rescue radio," includes a detailed series of suggestions for radio stations, networks and chains, for app developers, for equipment makers and for “everybody." The suggestions range from technical specifics to nuggets ...
Pandora Co-Founder Tim Westergren Opens up on Topics Like: Who's Really Screwing Artists?
Pandora Co-founders Tim Westergren and Tom Conrad recently sat down with PandoDaily's Sarah Lacy for a PandoMonthly Fireside Chat. The series is ongoing, featuring major figures in tech, and Lacy typically includes some difficult questions in the process of giving entrepreneurs a platform to open up. Tim Westergren's responses are currently being featured and he discusses ...
