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BandPage Expands to Become Hub for Musician Content on the Web
When Facebook required brand and band pages to switch over to the Timeline layout earlier this year, many Facebook application providers felt an uncomfortable blow as the new layout resulted in less visibility and usage of their products. Forced to adapt to a changing environment, the leading application for musicians on Facebook, BandPage, announced today that ...
Two Inane Suggestions for Compensating Artists Online
Guest post by Krzysztof 'Faza' Wiszniewski. This post was originally published at TheCynicalMusician.com. The problem with hardcore geeks (meaning here people who know about computers, as opposed to the other kind1) is while they are superhumanly knowledgable about their own area of expertise, they appear to be endearingly ignorant about everything else - humans especially. It ...
Online Street Teams: How to Motivate Fans to Spread the Word for You
Guest post by Moses Soyoola (@moseyshow), co-founder of Jamplify (@jampaigns), a promotional platform that turns fans into active promoters of artists' content. Whatever happened to street teams? It used to be that artists would have armies of kids in any given city beating the pavement to promote the artist and the artist's shows. These promoters would ...
The Most Valuable Thing You Never Knew About YouTube's Business Model
Guest post by Doug Shineman of The Orchard's Daily Rind. What if I said that the better you understand the mechanism behind YouTube's business model, the higher your streaming rate will be on YouTube? Yes, that means reading this article could improve your YouTube rates — maybe even double or triple them. Get ready for a ...
A Look Inside the 'New" Music Focused MySpace
As tainted of a brand name MySpace may be right now, the fallen social network plans to make a comeback in late 2012 with a focus on what their core mission should have been all along - connecting musicians with fans. Specific Media bought MySpace from News Corp. for $35 million, along with partner in the ...
A Killer, Sustainable, Industry Saving Music Service is Possible
Guest post by Joey Flores, co-founder of Earbits,com, an online radio platform that help labels, artists and promoters acquire fans and market music and live events. I was having a chat yesterday with Kyle Bylin of Live Nation Labs, talking about the various music services, what they lack, what they have, and what we'd both want ...
Radio.SC Turns Soundcloud Users into Radio Stations
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. SoundCloud was originally designed to help musicians send songs (or bits of songs) to each other and their “people" within the industry. Maybe that's why it still has so many users who seem to be either professionally, semi-professionally, or just obsessively involved with music. We hear SoundCloud even ...
Stephen Covey's 7 Habits and Your Music Career
Reflecting on the passing of Dr. Stephen Covey and the influence of his work, Nimbit's Carl Jacobson felt a fitting tribute would be to explore how The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People can contribute to success in music. Have a read and share your thoughts. Stephen Covey passed away earlier this week. For me, like ...
We Are Hunted Founder on Spotify App and Music Discovery [interview]
Guest interview by Tyler Hayes of Nxt Big Thing with Stephen Phillips, founder and CTO of We Are Hunted. NBT: In plain terms, can you describe what We Are Hunted does for those unfamiliar with the company? We Are Hunted aims to be the best music discovery service in the world. We exist to help you ...
The Role of the Local Promoter vs. the Local Band
Guest post by Lance Tobin (@ltliveboston) who runs a musician-based tax accounting firm and is an independent concert promoter in Boston. One of the most advantageous relationships an artist or band can have is with a promoter. At the local level, there seems to be a mystery as to what exactly the promoter does. “Does the ...
