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Watch Future of Music Coaliton Conference Now [Live Video]
The Future Of Music Conference is streaming live Monday and Tuesday October 3-4 from 9AM to 6PM ET. Here's the conference schedule. JOIN US: We'll be watching it live on the stream below and commenting throughout the day. Please add your thoughts as well. Hit refresh from time to time to see the latest comments. And ...
Rhapsody Buys Napster
(UPDATED) Rhapsody has bought Napster from Best Buy, joining two of the most established and largest streaming music services in the U.S. Under the agreement, Rhapsody will acquire Napster subscribers and certain other assets; and Best Buy will receive a minority stake in Rhapsody. The transaction is expected to close by the end of November. The ...
A Roundtable of Top Digital Music Thinkers Discuss F8, Facebook Music and More [video]
In this new episode of This Week in Music, Ian Rogers is joined by Antony Bruno, who just exited his position as Billboard's Digital Editor, Rachel MastersPartner & Co-Founder of Red Magnet Media, Bob Moczydlowsky -VP, Product & Marketing at Topspin and Tyler Crowley CEO & Founder at Skweal for an in depth roundtable discussion of ...
Study: Live Music's Economic Impact Includes Food and Beverage Sales
A report on the economic impact of live music in Australia was recently released that revealed the significant contribution of one aspect of the music industry on a nation's economic health. Its focus on live music venues such as clubs and hotels, rather than arenas, also offers a nice argument for supporting such businesses on a ...
Fanbridge Launches Social Digest - Earns 1 Million Subscribers in 24 Hours
Direct-to-fan marketing platform FanBridge recently launched a new feature called Social Digest, which curates the most popular social content from the web in a sleek email digest distributed to fans on a weekly basis, and already it appears to be a hit. Bridging the gap between email marketing and social media: Social Digest is an automated social ...
Veokami Turns Fans into Live Music Camera Crews
Veokami was the winner of this year's HackLolla challenge for a project that takes multiple live videos of concert events from YouTube, syncs them up and offers each video as an alternate camera angle. It's not a perfect viewing experience but it's pretty darn cool and worth following as an example of what one can do ...
Apple vs. Amazon. Which Co. is Better for Music?
Yesterday, Amazon launched the Kindle Fire tablet which includes a free cloud locker and music player. Beyond that, what does all this mean for music? As Mark Mulligan pointed out, yesterday showcased the huge difference between Amazon and Apple's content strategies, and therein lies the answer. Put simply, Apple is in the business of selling content ...
Musicians and the Power of Polite Persistence
A few weeks ago I went back to a venue that I was the program director at for 3 years. The band playing that night was a jazz trio called Apartment 5." I realized that the bassist Paul is the perfect example of polite persistence, because it took almost a year for me to first book ...
Troy Carter Goes from Managing and Marketing Musicians to Funding and Founding Music Startups
Troy Carter's increasingly visible profile, leveraging his early work in hip hop and his role as Lady Gaga's manager, has earned him prestige in music management and marketing circles. But recently his profile has begun to include involvement in both funding and founding tech startups in music and social media with related appearances and mentions at ...
Will Facebook Music Kill Last.FM?
About ten years ago, third-year computer science student Richard Jones wrote the code that would eventually earn him $38 million. His creation, AudioScrobbler, was a simple plug-in that tracked what people were listening to on various programs including iTunes and used that information to build an online profile of their listening habits that could be shared ...



