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Highlights from This Week's Bandwidth Conference
On Tuesday, the Bandwidth Music & Technology Conference concluded in San Francisco with many prominent companies from the music/tech world in attendance including Spotify, Beatport, eMusic, Gracenote, and RootMusic to name a few. This invite-only event was held differently than most music conferences, in that there were no panels. Sessions were held in boardrooms and kept small ...
ReverbNation Buys GigMaven, Expands Live Offering
ReverbNation has acquired GigMaven as part of an ongoing effort to expand performance opportunities for the 1.7 million artists and 20,000 venues that have registered to use its online music marketing and sales platform. GigMaven helps both artists and venues book gigs online, sell tickets and promote gigs on social media. In recent months, ReverbNation has ...
Derek Sivers Explains DIY (Decide It Yourself)
Derek Sivers recently released a series of videos, titled Uncommon Sense, in which he sensibly discusses music and entrepreneurship in a manner that cuts through a lot of noise while providing a great deal of inspiration. In particular, he has a smart take on DIY and the often conflicting business advice shared by industry experts. AppSumo ...
40% Of Youtube's Audience Watch Music Videos
Beginning today comScore will be reporting data on YouTube partner channels. They apparently released some early information to Ad Age who revealed that music videos are a big draw and both Vevo and Warner Music are running that vid game. Ad Age's Edmund Lee reports that, according to comScore, 40% of YouTube's audience watched music videos ...
Why Hasn't Superglued Concert Community Achieved Critical Mass?
Superglued is a community built around the music concert-going experience. It's a nice looking site with an interesting concept that includes rewarding its users for their activity both on and offsite. Yet the membership is relatively small reminding us that “build it and they will come" is never a guarantee. I talked to Superglued cofounder Rush ...
SoundExchange Signals Rate Increase Fight Ahead. Digital Music Royalty Battle Reignites
The battle over digital music royalties has begun again. The U.S. Copyright Royalty Judges have opened a new proceeding to set the statutory rates for 2013-2017 with a decision expected by the end of 2012. In recent weeks, Sirus XM has reportedly been talking to record labels and other rights holders about direct licensing. At the ...
VibeDeck Adds Direct-to-Fan Music Sales on Youtube
VibeDeck, a direct-to-fan ecommerce platform for music, has added a YouTube integration to go along with its SoundCloud and Facebook integrations. This is a nice extension of a service that has focused on keeping it simple and keeping it free. Selling Music on YouTube with VibeDeck— Hypebot sponsor VibeDeck's free ecommerce platform continues to develop by ...
UK Vinyl Record Sales Jump 55% so Far This Year, U.S. Vinyl Sales up 37%
(UPDATED) Sales of vinyl records totalled 168,296 units for the first half of 2011, according to new data released today by Retail Gazette. That's a 55% rise compared to the first six months of 2010. Radiohead's King of Limbs was the most popular vinyl album release in the last six months of 2011 for the format ...
ConcertCrowd Turns Concert Discovery into a Social Experience
In the wake of RootMusic's Social Touring App for Bandpage launch, a new Facebook app has eased the discovery of concerts and fused it with a social experience. ConcertCrowd connects with a user's Facebook page and helps discover upcoming shows of their favorite artists, as well as, recommendations based on how many of their own friends ...
Part Pandora, Part Turntable.FM, Radical.FM Opens to Indie Musicians
Radical.fm is part Pandora, part turntable.com. When it launches later this year, this personalized streaming music service includes the ability to “RadCast" streams in real time. A related service, Radical Indie will offer a free, worldwide internet radio service for musicians and fans of unsigned artists. A DJ feature allows musicians to host their own programs ...
