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Musicmetric: CO-Founder Talks Pro Edition, P2P Data Tour Planning App
Musicmetric is a web analytics platform that recently launched a Pro edition in Beta. It offers an impressive range of stats on everything from social media activity to mentions in articles on websites. One of the most noted features in recent media coverage is their tracking of file sharing activity. Access to such data also powered ...
Music Ownership: eMusic's Molly Neuman Looks at Consumer Motivations
For a large segment of music consumers, downloading music to own is something that's seen as music's past. But for an even larger share, owning and collecting is hugely important. Compounding the issues at hand, streaming has taken on different meanings to today's consumers, including streaming your MP3 files to a device from the cloud, or ...
Ourstage Raises $650k of $10m Funding Round
Boston based musician opportunity platform OurStage.com has raised $650,000 of a $10 million funding round. 19 unnamed investors were involved according to an SEC filing which earmarked $300,000 for executive compensation. Through an ongoing series of competitions and live performance opportunities, OurStage offers exposure to independent artists. The company recently begun shooting season 2 of its ...
Ian Rogers: Instead of SOPA, Here's How to Combat Piracy While Encouraging an Open Internet
Guest post by Ian Rogers of Topspin Media. Last week's Internet-wide SOPA/PIPA protests divided the Internet between content owners looking for stronger anti-piracy tools and technologists who believed the proposed legislation was an overreach. Those opposed said SOPA/PIPA opened the door to content companies taking down sites such as Tumblr and WordPress based on infringement by ...
Gigs4good: Connecting Artists and Non-Profits
Team Up for Nonprofits is a Seattle-based nonprofit that organizes music events for other nonprofits in their Gigs4Good program. Created in 2009, they're building up to their 10th event benefitting a Washington state-based organization. The focus is on raising both funds for and awareness of nonprofits among the 20 and 30-something demographic. It's a great idea ...
How the 80/20 Rule Applies to Your Social Media Strategy
The Pareto Principle, more commonly also known as the 80-20 rule, states that for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. In business for example, 80% of a company's profits tend to come from 20% of their customers, 80% of sales are made by 20% of the sales staff, and ...
Analyst Mark Mulligan on the New "Agile Music" #midem
On Monday, Music analyst Mark Mulligan today shared is theory of “Agile Music"—how music products need to evolve in “the age of mass customization". Mulligan said that the decline and fall of recorded music is why there needs to be a “format revolution" now. Mulligan talked about some of the bright spots last year, including the ...
Stop Complaining! Study Shows New Era of Abundance in Music, Entertainment [infographic]
A new white paper presented today a Midem, Techdirt founder Mike Masnick heralds a very different present and future for the music and entrainment industries than the doom and gloom often presented in the mainstream media. Combining statistics from a number of sources, “The Sky Is Rising" shows that: Entertainment spending as a function of income ...
Ted Cohen Gets Google, Merlin, Amazon and Universal Music in the Same Room @ #midem
The panel “How To Work With The Fab Four" moderated by Ted Cohen served as the centrepiece of Midem's Visionary Monday afternoon session. The panel comprised Charles Caldas, CEO of Merlin; Zahavah Levine, director of content partnerships for Android at Google; Craig Pape, director of music content acquisition at Amazon; and Rob Wells, president of Universal ...
Techdirt's Masnick Offers "Totally Positive" View of Music Industry @ #midem
Techdirt publisher Mike Masnick took the stage in Cannes today offering an optimistic view of the music industry. “The industry is amazing right now... we have more content than ever before, more access than ever before, and more opportunity than ever before. “And this is a good thing," he said. The challenge is very much a ...
