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Pandora Ends Free Listening Limits, Launches New HTML5 Player
Perhaps as a reaction to increased “free music" competition from iHeartRadio to Spotify or perhaps to offer advertisers the biggest possible audience, Pandora has eliminated it's 40 hour free listening cap. The move came on the same day that the music service rolled out a click new HTML5 player with more social sharing to all users. ...
1 Day Before Facebook Music Launch, Here's How Big Impact It Can Have [stats]
The day before Facebook Music launches at F8, there has been an overwhelming amount of speculation about just how big an impact it will have on music and the music industry. Sticking just to their own published numbers, the reach and the potential impact of Facebook Music are enormous: People on Facebook: More than 750 million ...
On the New Album Release Cycle, Social Media and Finding the Time to Do Everything You Have to Do
Last week at SF Music Tech Summit, Ethan Kaplan said something very telling yet true: “The worst thing you can do to keep fans actively engaged... is to actually release the album.“ Think about that — just because the album comes out does not mean the campaign is over. Hell, at that point, the campaign just ...
Universal Music Joins Forces with Live Nation to Form World's Largest Management CO.
(UPDATED) In a move that creates the world's largest music management firm, Vivendi-Universal have formed a joint venture with Live Nation that will include UMG's owned management co.'s Sanctuary, Trinifold, Twenty First Artists (TFA) and 5B and such artists as ZZ Top, The Who, Robert Plant, Judas Priest, Fleetwood Mac and Wolfmother. As we reported this ...
The Music Industry is Bigger Than You Think [stats]
This guest post comes from Bobby Owsinski, producer, author and social media advisor who blogs at Music 3.0. Whenever someone mentions the phrase “the music industry" we immediately think of record labels and music sales, be they via a digital file, CD, vinyl record, cassette or some other method where we listen to songs. The business ...
Sonicangel Creates Hybrid Crowdfunded Label
SonicAngel is a unique hybrid of traditional record label and crowdfunding platform that allows fans to become investors and artists to reap a larger percentage of revenue. They began in Europe, where they've had one standout success in Tom Dice, and now also operate in the U.S. SonicAngel launched in January 2010, the creation of Maurice ...
Must See: A 3 Minute Trip Through the Stats That Changed the Music Industry [video]
From the fall of vinyl and the explosion in CD sales to the rise of digital music, and the effect of piracy to the most expensive guitar ever sold (a Fender Stratocaster for $2.7 million), this zippy video from PR and social marketing firm Simply Zesty is a roller coaster of both fun and disruptive events ...
A Musicians Guide to Managing Your Online Brand
By now it should be more than obvious that as an artist or a band member, you need to be thinking about how you can leverage the power of blogging and social media to create a strong brand, an ever expanding online presence and a growing fan base (both in terms of loyalty and size). While ...
Nielsen Study: More Video Engagement, Not View Counts = Higher Sales
midem has released an exclusive white paper from Nielsen that looks at the reach of official music videos as well as the correlation between both views and engagement in relationship to digital download sales. The executive takeaway is that increased views do not always correlate with increased sales but higher engagement does correlate with higher sales. ...
Techdirt's Masnick Sees New Era of Hope for Music Industry at SF MusicTech
There was a major shift at this year's SF MusicTech from complaining to actions and looking back to pushing forward, according to Techdirt's Mike Masnick: “What struck me wasn't necessarily what was being discussed, but what was not being discussed. Unlike past such events, there was no major label presence (if they were there, they were ...
