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Music Supervisors on Finding Indie Music for Movies and TV Shows [part 3]
This is the third in a series of posts quoting music supervisors on how they find or discover music to license for movies and tv shows. Music Supervisors Explain How They Find Indie Music For Movies And TV [Part 1] drew on multiple sources while both Music Supervisors On How They Find Indie Music For Movies ...
SoundExchange Gets 90% of It's Revenue from SiriusXM and Pandora
SoundExchange collected 90% of it's 2011 revenue from only two sources: SiriusXM and Pandora, according to new analysis from Live365 general counsel Angus MacDonald. The dominance of just two income sources is particularly poignant at a time when SiriusXM is leading an effort to by-pass SoundExchange entirely and pay rightsholders directly. Based on court filings from ...
Rdio Engineering VP Todd Berman Calls for Universal Music Apps [interview]
Guest post by Andy Cush of Evolver.fm. Spotify has received a lt of attention for its app platform, and rightfully so. Rdio also has an app platform, offering access to the same songs, more or less. Evolver.fm caught up with Rdio vice president of engineering Todd Berman to discuss the one-year anniversary of Rdio's developer API; ...
Music Exec Jimmy Iovine Calls Subscription Music "Culturally Inadequate", Plans Alternative
Jimmy Iovine, the chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, is dissatisfied with the current state of subscription music and has plans to do something about it. But what concerns Iovine is not the revenue paid to artists and labels, but rather the quality of the experience. “Right now, subscription music online is culturally inadequate," Iovine told ...
Top Pinterest Tools and Tips for Music Marketing
Since my early call that music marketers should be paying attention to Pinterest, it's become an increasing focus for a variety of folks in the music industry. Now one of the most popular social networks after only Twitter and Facebook, Pinterest seems likely to establish itself as a must-have for music marketers far beyond my expectatons ...
Free Direct-to-Fan Music Marketing Webinar
Hypebot is proud to sponsor a free direct-to-fan music marketing webinar hosted by Brian Thompson and Michael Brandvold from The Music Biz Weekly podcast on April 16th. This 60 minute intro to Direct-to-Fan Music Marketing will be followed by a Q&A. This is the first in a series webinars hosted by Michael and Brian that Hypebot ...
Amazon Digital Sales up 29%, iTunes Sales Flat
Amazon's digital sales grew 29% in Q1 2012 compared to Q4 2011. iTunes sales were relatively flat with only 2% growth over the same period, according to eDataSource. Digital sales at Amazon are comprised of kindle content, mp3's, streaming videos and android apps. Music is estimated to account for 12% of Amazon's total digital sales. iTunes ...
Coindl: "iTunes of the Bitcoin World". Can Digital Currency Create New Music Revenue Stream?
Bitcoin is an attempt to create a new digital currency. It's had some ups and downs, in part because it's not issued by a government, but it seems to be headed towards some level of legitimacy. In fact, Bitcoin is now becoming a factor in digital media with the launch of coinDL, a digital goods marketplace ...
Drowned in Sound Founder Sean Adams: 'The Slow Death of MP3 Blogging'
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. MP3 bloggers were the revolutionaries of music criticism, taking on established outlets like Rolling Stone and Spin by being faster, cooler, and more musical -- in that they could embed what they were talking about. Readers could hear it for themselves as they read the blog, rather than ...



