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Does Google+ Hope to be the Next MySpace Music?
Japanese pop group AKB48 is leveraging the social functions of Google+ to regularly host Hangouts with fans and broadcast concerts live through Hangouts on Air, Google+ VP of Product Bradley Horowitz recently announced. When MySpace was still in its prime, it served as the go-to place for keeping track of what songs artists were creating. In ...
Twitter Begins Brand Page Rollout
Twitter is introducing brand pages and just as many of us haven't yet experienced the new Twitter account changes, the first brand pages being rolled out aren't even necessarily viewable to all. In fact, the demo video of Twitter's account changes has been marked private and you can't even see those. Fortunately, screenshots are available. Rafe ...
Music Hack Day London: Spotify Hacks and More
Music Hack Day London took place December 3 and 4 resulting in the usual mix of stuff that didn't work, stuff that kind of worked, stuff that worked but was just for fun and stuff that's clearly headed for market at a future date. Spotify's efforts to further open its API were richly rewarded with numerous ...
The Music Business Looks Forward: 5 Social Media Predictions for 2012
Guest post by Shore Fire Media, a boutique public relations, online marketing, and digital strategy firm specializing in music and entertainment. In the last year, the music industry shifted from cautiously experimenting with social media, to recognizing it as a necessary part of every marketing strategy, from the smallest bands to the biggest brands. It's an exciting ...
Why Spotify Will Never Be Profitable: The Secret Demands of Record Labels
Imagine a new hot-dog selling venture. Let's also say there's only one supplier to purchase hot dogs from. Instead of simply charging a fixed price for hot dogs, that supplier demands the HIGHER of the following: $1 per hot dog sold OR $2 for every customer served OR 50 percent of all revenues for anything sold ...
Ian Rogers Interviews Robb McDaniels, CEO Digital Distributor INgrooves
On the 21st episode of This Week in Music, Ian Rogers interviews Robb McDaniels, founder and CEO of INgrooves at his offices in San Francisco. They discuss digital distribution, marketing and the unique challenges of monetizing streaming music. McDaniels shares that Spotify is now solidly the #2 income stream for most of his distributed labels behind ...
Musician Tips: The Importance of a Contract and Professionalism when Collaborating
Here's the scenario: You're out and about watching another indie artist perform and you think your styles would blend well together. After the show you approach him and ask if he wants to collab. He says sure, and you make a plan to meet a couple days later. What you do from here will make a ...
3 Microsites for Aggregating Your Band's Social Media and Extending Your Web Presence
The core of a musician's web presence should be your own website that functions as a homebase of operations for news, content development and ecommerce that fuels your social media activities around the web. So why would you need single page sites like About.me, Flavors.me and Onesheet that aggregate social media content and link out to ...
Twitter Gets a Major Makeover [first Look and Video]
Twitter has unleashed some major changes yesterday that give the site and its apps a cleaner look and some new Facebook-like features. Most of the changes are positive, though I did notice some design and readability issues on some Twitter homepages using both approved and custom skins. (Be sure to check to see how your's looks.) ...
How to Get Music on Spotify for Free: Spotmeup
Most digital distributors from Tunecore to The Orchard and CDBaby to IODA deliver independent music to Spotify. But I had not seen an alternative for artists that want to avoid all distribution fees or perhaps choose to offer a track only on Spotify. Founded almost a year ago, Spotmeup provides the answer with a simple and ...
