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3 Major Reasons to Drive Fans to Your Website Instead of Facebook and Social Media
(UPDATED) By Chris Vinson, the founder and CTO of musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. Do I really need a website for my music? With Facebook, Twitter, and all the musician-specific social networks out there, you might think that your own .COM is obsolete. But there are 3 very important reasons to drive fans to your ...
Ian Rogers on the Evolution of Web Distribution, a Mass of Niches and the Era of Trusted Brands
On Thursday afternoon, Topspin CEO Ian Rogers was a keynote speaker at Digital Music Forum West. His speech, which follows in its entirity, begins with a quick trip through the evolution of internet distribution and onto where we are now: the era of social distribtuion. Next, Rogers shares where he believes we're headed—a mass of niches ...
Rdio Goes Really, Really Free: Free Music, No Ads
Streaming music service Rdio today announced a new free service tier. The new tier and offers access to all the site's 12 million songs. Free users will see a green bar at the top of the screen that lets them know how much free music they have available for the month. As they listen to tracks, ...
Vimeo Teams with Audiosocket, Free Music Archive for Video Music Store
Vimeo's recently launched Music Store provides free music for noncommercial videos, low-cost tracks ($1.99) for use on personal videos and commercially priced tracks ($98.00) for commercial use. It's a service that makes sense for Vimeo to add and it might make a handful of musicians better off though the profits are in the aggregation. Music Store ...
First Look at the New MySpace: It's All About Music
The week, new MySpace owners Specific Media are pitching the site at Advertising Week along with investor Justin Timberlake. A leaked ad pitch deck (click on image at left to enlarge) and an interview are offering the few hints we have as to what the new MySpace will look like—and its all about music and the ...
The Business of 'Pay What You Want' Music Pricing
Though we tend to hear of “pay what you want" music pricing models from big artists like Radiohead, Atlum Schema has found pay what you want for CDs at live shows to be a viable model for lesser known artists as well. However, fans may not be looking for specific products so much as something that ...
BalconyTV: A Simple Concept That Offers Indie Artists True Global Reach
(UPDATED) Romeo and Juliet found their future on a balcony, now more than a few musicians theirs are as well. BalconyTV launched in Dublin when YouTube was still young. A group of friends were filming things from their balcony and when a musician performed there, it got thousands of hits. The idea went viral and before ...
Slacker Radio Favors Human DJs over Algorithms
In the last few months, digital radio service Slacker has added a premium channel, partnered with AOL and helped launch the new Facebook. But they've also been a successful example of music programming by expert humans, aka djs, as opposed to more algorithmically inclined solutions. Music curation is taking on many forms and Slacker was recently ...
First 7 of 16 Music Services Go Live on Facebook
(UPDATED) By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced 16 music partners on September 22nd ranging from almost-unheard-of to the incredibly popular. Of those, 7 have completed their integration with Facebook, meaning that they can automatically send users' listening activity to their friends' Facebook tickers and Music sections, and to their own Facebook Timelines. Here's ...
Jonathan Coulton: Creative Commons, Coding and Being an Internet Rockstar [video]
D.I.Y. artist Jonathan Coulton has found real success as a musician by channeling his inner geek and appealing to the tech community. In this interview on Engadget, Coulton talks about his unique path to a career as a full time musician. WATCH:
