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Do Musicians Need to Interact with Their Fans?
At Bandzoogle, we often talk about the “Hub & Spokes" method to drive traffic to your website using your social media profiles. The root of the “Hub & Spokes" concept is really about interacting with your fans and using all the tools available in a cohesive strategy that will create more awareness about you and your ...
Emily White Calls for Professionalism in 2013 / Poll: Who is the Music Industry's Best?
By Emily White of Whitesmith Entertainment and Readymade Records. I love music and the music industry. I'm a geek about doing the work and love working with artists to help achieve goals and build sustainable careers. As an artist manager and consultant, I work with or create new teams around each artist on our roster. I ...
Music Ally's 2013 Survival Panel Looks to the Future of the Music Industry
Music Ally held an end of year gathering discussing what's ahead for the UK music industry in 2013. The gathering included a panel discussion with individuals from such companies and organizations as Universal Music, the Featured Artists Coalition and Seatwave representing multiple sectors of the industry. They shared a variety of insights into the days ahead. ...
Reality Checking Predictions: 5 Top Music Tech Trends for 2012
Last year I made a number of predictions regarding top music tech trends for 2012. I focused on streaming music, augmented reality, ecommerce, hack days and the relationship of live performance to the web. Looking back I can see they were a mix of somewhat obvious themes and out of left field contenders with the best ...
Updated: Royalties Sirius XM Pays Artists, Labels to Rise 37.5%, Soundexchange Responds
UPDATED: The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has set new statutory royalty rates for satellite radio that will see the percentage of gross revenue paid to artists and labels increase gradually from the current 8% to 11% by 2017. SoundExchange, which collects the royalties had wanted Sirius XM to pay up to 20% by 2017. The Judges ...
5 Media Outreach Tips from the Essential Guide to Hip-Hop Marketing and Publicity
Though “The Essential Guide To Hip-Hop Marketing & Publicity" is focused on hip hop, its insights emphasize basic principles that are relevant across music genres. Written by hip hop publicist Kayla Calloway, this short ebook covers such topics as media pitching and mixtape marketing including advice for outreach to writers and editors in both print and ...
Midem 2013 Announces Program
The 2013 edition of mega music industry conference Midem is taking shape, according to even organizers Reed Midem t to take place in Cannes, 26-29 January. Held in Cannes on January 26 thru 29, this year's summit will focus on key aspects of the industry with segments dedicated to publishers, authors' societies and lawyers. Willard Ahdritz, ...
Goldminds: A Vision for the Future of the Indie Music Community
By Derek Webb, Co-Founder of Noise Trade. As I'm closing in on the end of my second decade as a professional, indie-minded musician, I've been thinking about how I got here. Through the starting and leaving of a moderately successful band, ups & downs navigating a solo career as an almost hyper-niche artist, and the all but accidental ...
Music Distributors Refuse to Join Labels in the Present
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. If you know people who work at record labels, you know they are not without complaint. From Napster to YouTube, half of the new technologies in the world at any time seem specifically designed to subtract money from their bank accounts — oh, and everyone thinks they're too rich, serve ...
Despite Free Streaming, Music Remains Popular Holiday Gift [study]
Despite the rising popularity of Pandora, Spotify, Rhapsody and other options for streaming music, digital music downloads and CD's continue to be a popular gift choice, according to an NPD Group study. This year 12 percent of U.S. consumers reported that music would be on their holiday gift lists. Music gift buyers also intend to increase ...
