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Soundcloud Connects to Social Commerce Platforms Moontoast and D.I.Y. Media
SoundCloud's API is getting quite a workout lately with new partners connecting to its digital audio platform almost daily. The two most recent, Moontoast Impulse and D.I.Y. Media, have similar goals: enabling direct to fan sales on social networks for independent musicians of tracks stored on SoundCloud. Each takes a slightly different approach, however. Moontoast Impulse ...
4 Gig Booking Sites: Bandsurfing, Indie on the Move, Getagig Info, Sonicbids
My recent discussion of DIYgigs.com returned some suggestions for similar web services. Here I briefly discuss four sites, BandSurfing, Indie on the Move, Getagig Info and Sonicbids, focusing on their usefulness for indie musicians booking their own gigs. BandSurfing is still in process but the emphasis on connecting bands and people booking shows is central to ...
Study Says Connect with Your Fans to Counteract Illegal Downloading
An academic research paper by Kalika N. Doloswal and Ann Dadich on “using policy to curb illegal downloading" provides some interesting insights into the strength of efforts to connect musicians and fans via social media. Participation in services like Sellaband is said to help build a psychological contract between fan and musician that has the potential ...
Merlin Adds U.S. Board Members, Indie Labels
Merlin, the non-profit global rights agency for indie labels has added four new U.S board members and announced that a number of major U.S. independent labels have joined the group. New board members include: Dave Hansen of Epitaph, William Crowley of E1, Kris Gillespie of Domino and Glenn Dicker from Yep Roc and Redeye Distribution. They ...
New MP3.com is Live: Another Place to Give Your Music Away for Free
Confirming weeks of rumors,CBS has relaunched MP3.com. Free music is at the center of the new site along with music and music tech content drawn primarily from CBS owned properties Last.fm and CNet. While the new MP3.com is focused primarily on free downloads and streams of indie music, free tracks from Britney Spears, My Morning Jacket ...
Soundcloud Partners with MusicXray
Soundcloud has partnered with music opportunity site MusicXray. Two new Music Xray apps have been added to the SoundCloud App Gallery. Both apps enable SoundCloud users to have songs matched opportunities like song placements on Music Xray without having to import their music. Music Xray users can also link their accounts to SoundCloud and have their ...
9 SEO Tips for Musicians - Simple Steps That Drive Traffic to Your Site
This guest post comes from Lior Levin, a marketing consultant working with a psd to css company and also advises to iAdvize, a live chat support tool for websites. So you finally have a website for your group or band, but you have no idea how to get traffic there. This is an issue that many musicians go ...
Gigswiz and the Human League Help Disrupt the Ticket Industry
TicketMaster has long been unpopular with both music fans and many bands. GigsWiz' approach to building an alternative was to create a system that rewards artists for ticket sales resulting from their direct contacts with fans. Essentially an affiliate program, it encourages musicians to promote their own shows on social media. The band Human League recently ...
We7 Closes New Funding Round, Charts Expansion of Music Streaming Service
We7 has added new funding and will use the money to expand across Europe. Participating were co-founder Peter Gabriel, Eden Ventures, Qualcomm Inc. through its venture capital arm and Pentech Ventures. The amount of the investments were not disclosed. Certainly the investments are well timed to help we7 compete in an increasingly competitive cloud music sector. ...
Vibedeck Raises $2 Million for Free, No Fee Music Sales Platform
(UPDATED) VibeDeck announced today that it had raised $2 million from a private investor to develop its direct-to-fan e-commerce platform for musicians. The deal was struck on April 2nd and the website launched a month later in beta. VibeDeck provides a free service for musicians to publish customizable web pages to sell or giveaway digital tracks. ...
