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CEO Chris Kantrowitz on Creating the Future of Music Storage and File Transfer at Gobbler
Cloud storage is a big topic these days but specialized services for musicians are still coming into their own. Last week I spoke with Gobbler CEO and Founder Chris Kantrowitz about his unique cloud storage, syncing and transfer platform for musicians and others who work with digital audio. From his early days as a teen entrepreneur ...
Direct-to-Fan Holds Much Promise, Many Problems
By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. The notion of artists selling music directly to their fans holds a powerful allure. Why pay to distribute your music to iTunes and Amazon if you can set up your own online storefront? You keep a higher percentage of the sales revenue ...
AOL Music and Spinner Shut Down, All Staff Laid Off
AOL Music, Spinner and related properties are being closed and all employees in the division immediately laid off. While no official announcement has been made yet, Spinner editor Dan Reilly and other employees confirmed media reports. “Well, we all just got laid off. AOL Music is finished", tweeted Reilly on Friday afternoon. And later: “Sitting in ...
Record Store Day Drives Impressive Sales Boost
"Record Store Day is a great way to shine the spotlight on the amazing experience that independent record stores bring to music consumers," David Bakula,SVP at Nielsen Entertainment,said in a statement. “With year-over-year growth, and exclusive packages in a format that consumers value with rich content, Record Store Day will continue to be an event that ...
Real Band Names That Sound Totally Fake
By freelance music writer Tyler Hayes (@thealbumproject). By now you must've seen the video from Jimmy Kimmel, catching people lying about being into bands playing at Coachella that the interviewer just made up. How long must it have taken to come up with band names that they knew were fake? Here are some band names that ...
Why Modern Musicians Should Care About Metadata
By Bill Wilson, Vice President of Digital Strategy and Business Development at NARM and digitalmusic.org. Metadata. It's a jargon-y word that probably turns a lot of artists off at the mere mention of it. It's also one of the main things standing between them and a variety of new opportunities to make money. And those new ...
Get More Fans is a Mindblowingly Complete DIY Guide to the New Music Business
Jesse Cannon and Todd Thomas's new book, titled “Get More Fans," is more accurately described by the subtitle “The DIY Guide to the New Music Business." At a bit over 600 pages, it's hard to take in as a whole yet so far I cannot find anything I would describe as padding or filler. It's simply ...
Eventbrite Raises $60 Million for Indie Ticketing
Self-service ticketing platform Eventbrite has raised $60 million in new financing led by Tiger Global Management and new investor T. Rowe Price. After this round, the company's total funding is $140 million. While still a small player compared to Ticketmaster, today's investment comes after months of rapid growth for Eventbrite: 100 million tickets sold across 179 ...
Rhapsody Offers Sage Advice to Rival Upstarts
By Jon Maples of Rhapsody for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. One of the wonderful and humbling aspects of being in the streaming music business for over 10 years is that we've seen lots of strategies and ideas over time. Trust me, Rhapsody does not like to be considered the old man who yells ...
The Times Are Changing for Artist Investors
By Matt Urmy, CEO of Artist Growth. When a young person announces that they have decided to pursue a career as an artist or entertainer, probably the most common response they get is something along the lines of, “Good luck with that." Despite this belief that trying to make a living as an artist is a ...
