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Spreaker: Artist Marketing Tool or Waste of Time?
(UPDATED) Spreaker is a free and straightforward online radio and podcast service with resources like video tutorials to make it easy to use. Set up a show, upload media files and record audio directly into a mic. You specify the sequencing and Spreaker mixes it together on their end. Sounds like a simple and effective tool ...
D.I.Y. Music -- When Artists Become the Product
This guest post is by (@wgruger) William Gruger. It seems like there is an Internet outlet that allows individuals to be whoever you want to be. People who think they're writers start blogs, photographers or fashionistas start Tumblrs, and people who think they're film makers make YouTube accounts. For prospective musicians, however, there exists not just a ...
Fanbridge Hits 100 Million Fans. Adds Staff, API
Fan relationship platform FanBridge announced yesterday that more than 100 million fans are now connecting through email, Facebook and Twitter using their platform. Some key clients like Lady Gage, Lil Jon and Carole King certainly helped Fanbridge reach the 100M fan milestone. But given the competition, it's an impressive number nonetheless. FanBridge also announced the appointments ...
Advice: Finding and Making the Most out of a Music Industry Internship
This post is by Hypebot intern Hisham Dahud. His Twitter: @HishamDahud. There have been a few discussions circulating the web lately about unpaid internships in the music industry being worth it or not. The fact remains that the entertainment and music sectors continue to be areas where many people are willing to work for free, so companies ...
Record Industry Profits if Napster Never Hit [chart]
For over a decade, US album sales have been racing to the bottom. In the trial brief for their case against LimeWire, the record industry has presented a graph that shows how sales may have fared had Napster never occurred. It's an interesting chart to analyze. Would sales have continued to race to the top or ...
Click to Pay Sync Licensing Platform for Music
Need indie music for your film or video game, and fast? Meet Splother. The service allows full access to music via “click to pay" sync licensing and product marketing. Since it's no longer cost-effective to enter into elaborate negotiations for every type of sync, the company is aiming to speed up the process and provide a ...
Pandora Caught Transmitting Personal Info and User Location to Advertisers
(Updated) After Pandora revealed in an IPO filing that it was subpoenaed by a grand jury investigating smartphone apps, the team at Veracode decided to do a little digging and found that both Pandora's Android and iPhone apps transmitted information about a user's age, gender, location, and unique identifiers for the phone to advertisers. Pandora gathers ...
Hello Music Launches Daily Deals for Musicians
Online independent artist platform Hello Music is launching a daily deals site for limited time discounts on musical instruments, recording equipment, gear and accessories. Including products from more than fifty top manufacturers including Takamine, Gretsch Drums, Tascam, Nord and Kurzweil, Hello Music Deals will feature four products each day. Daily sales with discounts up to 70% ...
Only 22% of High Schoolers Want to Pay 99 Cents a Song
How does the 99¢ song fair among high school students? Not very well, according to a new study by Piper Jaffray. Only 22% of the 4,500 participants said they'd consider paying 99¢ for a track. In contrast, 65% use P2P services to get music for free, with a mere 35% indicating that they purchase music from ...
Chaos We Can Stand: Attitudes Toward Technology and Their Impact on the New Digital Ecology
I. Where Salvation Lies Upon discovering that I had relatively poor vision in the seventh grade—difficulties seeing the whiteboard and anything from afar—it was understood that I would need to get glasses. Not just any glasses though, the specific style that I wanted were those worn by the front man of the rock group Linkin Park, ...
