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Is This the Best or the Worst Time for Independent Musicians?
On Music Think Tank, Rich Gordon poses an interesting question—Is this the best or the worst time for independent musicians? With the ever growing DIY movement, musicians are finding that they can record and release their music without big companies. If enough people like their music, then artists are able to become successful. However, more opportunity ...
Punchtab: An Easy Way to Gamify Your Music Site
If you're interested in adding game elements to your site (aka gamification), there is now at least one simple way to do so. PunchTab offers basic tools to help you set up a loyalty program for fans visiting your site or music-related giveaways based on members' site activity. That may not sound quite as exciting as ...
Eventbrite Grabs $50 Million More for Live Ticket and Marketing Platform
Even as Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino was touting synergies created by its merger with Ticketmaster at this morning's JP Morgan conference, investors were signalling that it's far from game over for the event ticketing sector. Ticketing upstart Eventbrite announced today it has secured $50 million in a Series E financing round led by Tiger Global. ...
Top 5 Ways to Fail on Twitter
This guest post comes from Dave Cool, the new Blogger In Residence at musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. Most artists and bands now use Twitter to promote their music and connect with their fans. But like with all promotional tools, there are certain things you should avoid doing. I've searched through literally thousands of artist ...
Study Takes Critical Look at Music Recommendation
(UPDATED) In “Music Taste And Web 2.0" witten for the Music Management & Media program at the University of Gloucestershire, Joel Stamp did extensive research and analysis of how consumers discover new music. His work comes just as iTunes Genius, Google Instant Mix, The Echo Nest and others are bringing machine generated playlists to market. Others, ...
Paid Content Passes Piracy on Web for First Time
For the first time in the history of the internet, traffic in paid content has passed piracy according to the Spring Traffic Report from Sandvine. Netflix provided the tipping point as the movie service mades up 22.2% of all U.S. broadband traffic compared to BitTorrent's 21.6%. At peak times, Netflix can consume 30%.of all traffic. The ...
955 Dreams: Ipad Apps as Future of Record Albums
Tablet computers, especially the iPad, have taken off with consumers and opened up new possibilities for digital publishing in the form of apps designed for the unique interactive capabilities of tablets. This has resulted in new forms of content apps creating the potential for revisioning the record album in the digital age. Though some digital publishers ...
4 New Sites Combine Music with Daily Deals
The runaway success of daily deal sites like Groupon and Living Social, which focus on a wide range of local deals at deep discounts, has spawned a mini-industry of copycats and niche services including some focused on music. While copycats of hot web properties are eventually sorted out with most falling by the wayside, niche sites ...
A Musician's Minimum Sustainable Scale
This guest post comes from Fava, who blogs as The Cynical Musician. How big must you be to call yourself successful? I have no idea—it all depends on your definition of success. I propose to answer an easier question here: how big must you be to be sustainable? Unless we define success in really awkward ways, ...
Were Major Labels Right to Stay Away from the Cloud ... and Should We Too?
David Greenberg, Cyde Smith and I recently shared our thoughts on the launch of cloud music services from Amazon and Google. Today, Robin Davey (@mr_robin_davey), a musician, artist and Head of Music & Film Development at GROWVision Media weighs in. With the recent launch of Amazon and Google's music in the cloud services, the press embraced ...
