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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Abandon Text, Go Visual to Drive Traffic
Scott Perry, in his excellent free newsletter and site New Music Tipsheet, advises using more picture posts to drive traffic to your band's site and Facebook page: “I know studies can tell you the actual percentage of engagement among text vs picture posts, but I see it every day in my own feeds. When I post ...
How Jonathan Coulton Made $500,000 Last Year as a D.I.Y. Musician
Last year d.y.i. musician Jonathan Coulton grossed about $500,000 from his music career; and because he's a mostly solo artist with low overhead, he got to keep most of it. Coutlon never expected to make this kind of money as a musician. “This is absurd," he told Planet Money. But is Jonathan Coulton's success a fluke ...
Tunecore Explains Major Price Hike, CD Baby Responds with Discount
Popular digital distributor TuneCore recently raised prices from $19.99 a year per album distributed to $49.99 per year. While many users still find TuneCore a bargain, the reaction from others was vocal and negative. “Under the old pricing scheme my yearly costs for 4 albums would be $57.96," wrote one. “It is now $200. A ridiculous ...
Echo Nest Compares It's Playlist Engine to iTunes Genius, Google Instant Mix
Listeners often prefer to have their music playlists created for them. Doing it yourself is just too time consuming. They also lead to new music discovery; so much effort has been put into machine generated playlists. Pandora has its version. iTunes Genius promised, but so far has failed, to revolutionize listening. And The Echo Nest created ...
Co-Founder and Former Ceo Chris Dewolfe Hints at Buying Back MySpace
"I'd love to work with Myspace again," concludes a wide ranging BusinessWeek interview withMySpace co-founder and former CEO Chis DeWolfe. But will the current CEO of gaming company MindJolt actually try to buy Myspace back? “It's a confidential process—but it's the biggest property for sale at what, in this market, would be a somewhat reasonable price," ...
A Look at Creation of Amazing Danger Mouse, Jack White, Norah Jones HTML5 Video
(UPDATED) “3 Dreams of Black" is Chris Milk's new interactive film, created in WebGL with Google for Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi's ROME, featuring Jack White & Norah Jones. The project is a Chrome Experiment which pushes the boundaries of HTML5 and showcases the potential of video on on modern browsers. Watch the “Creation Of" video: ...
TourIntel Offers Free Look at Live Show Data
TourIntel offers “Concert Business Intelligence" and accounts are currently free for a limited time. TourIntel claims to provide data on over 15,000 artists performing at over 7500 venues for more than 10 years of history. Such data offers a potentially powerful tool to gain a sense of trends over time, as well as to evaluate how ...
Protect IP Act Seeks to Eliminate Due Process, Industry Organizations Applaud
A draft version of the already controversial “Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011," aka the PROTECT IP Act, leaked was introduced on Thursday by bipartisan leaders of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). This effort follows last ...
Myspace Page Views Drop Another 50% in 60 Days
Even as MySpace prepares to leave the unfriendly grasp of News Corp and into what will hopefully be the more attentive arms of a new buyer, their numbers continue to fall dramatically. In the two months ending in early April, daily U.S. visitors to MySpace fell 28%. Time on the site dropped 48% and page views ...
Music in the Cloud: Battle for the Celestial Jukebox
Yesterday Bruce wrote about “How Google & Amazon Hurt Recorded Music By Launching Cloud Lockers“. Today Clyde Smith weighs in. With the recent debuts of cloud-based music storage services with streaming abilities from Amazon and Google, plus something on the way from Apple, talk of the cloud has moved from the business side to the consumer ...
