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Clear Channel Buys Thumbplay at Bargain Price
Early Monday, news broke that subscription music service Thumbplay is getting sold. After less than one year in the sector, its burning money and in need of a lifesaver. Hypebot has since learned that Clear Channel Radio is buying Thumbplay at a bargain price. And no, it is not entering the subscription sector. Instead, the company ...
D.I.Y Bootcamp: Fanbridge Fan Management [video]
EXCLUSIVE: Scion A/V produced a series of videos that provide a virtual tour of the new music industry and some of the tools that make it work. Hypebot will feature one a day for the next few weeks. In this installment, Noah Dinkin of Fanbridge offers a tour their email and fan relationship platform. Fanbridge clients ...
Facebook Changes "Like" Button to "Share" Without Notice and What It Means to You
On Sunday, Facebook changed its “Like" button on sites across the net to essentially give it the same functionality as its “Share" button. The new Like button no longer opens a new window or offers any way to edit what their posting. What does this mean for your site? Before the change, “likes" appeared in a ...
Dedication - To Get a Music Biz Job You'll Need It
Lately we've been talking quite a bit about how to get a job in the music industry and the realities of the current job market. Some of our readers have been kind enough to share their stories of how they started their careers in this climate and what they sacrificed to get them. Today, I wanted ...
3 Ways to Preserve Music for Next Gen Musicians
This post is by Hypebot intern Hisham Dahud. His Twitter: @HishamDahud. We're beginning to make positive strides in understanding how music will be consumed in the digital age, but we've spent relatively little time pondering how the music itself will evolve. How will it be different? Will it change for better or for worse? To learn more, I ...
Apple, Google to Save the Music Industry from Decline by Offering Users 'Song Insurance'
Apple and Google have confirmed plans that will revolutionize digital music and thwart rampant music piracy. After months of speculation, the two tech-giants have revealed their plans to offer users digital music lockers. Due to the widespread use of the Windows Operating System and its tendency to crash all the time, Apple and Google determined that ...
News Flash: Your Music is Not Your Product
This post is by singer / songwriter Jeff Macdougall (@jeffmacdougall). I'm tired. I'm tired of having the same conversation over and over again. The conversation about how we should go about dealing with “thieves" and “pirates" “stealing" our “product" like so many shoplifters. I'm just gonna say it. It's absurd. Music is not, and never was, ...
The Connected Car and the Future of Music
The connected car will shift the music landscape. Experts argue that in little as four years' time, we will see “near saturation" in the U.S. market. This development has real implications for the future of music. Once cars become a Wi-Fi enabled, voice-controlled credit card on wheels, it shifts the paradigm. The Connected Car The first ...
Sonicbids Replaces Most Gig Fees with Tokens
EXCLUSIVE: Responding to member requests, today Sonicbids unveiled a new system that replaces submission fees for most gig opportunities with tokens offered free as part to their membership plans. Last Fall, a Musician's Friend sponsorship made some Sonicbids listings free. But starting today, 60% of all opportunities become part of the tokens program with that ...
D.I.Y. Bootcamp: SoundCloud [video]
EXCLUSIVE: Scion A/V has produced a video series that provides a virtual tour of the new music industry and many of the best the sites and tools that make it work. Hypebot will feature one every day for the next few weeks. In this installment, David Haynes of SoundCloud describes his popular online platform that lets ...
