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Exfm: The Web is Your Music Library [interview]
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This post is by Alison McCarthy (@aliiimac). She's an intern at Hypebot. Recently I spoke with Charles Smith, Founder and COO of exfm, a new music discovery service that works as a browser extension for Chrome, turning the entire web into your personal music library. As you browse any website that hosts MP3s, exfm automatically catalogues every ...
Music Listening - The Least Popular Mobile Activity
ComScore published its 2010 Digital Year in Review report. In their analysis of what Americans are doing with their mobile devices, listening to music didn't fare well, which is a nice way of saying that it ranked dead last. Instant messaging is even more popular than music listening. And even if you make room for the ...
Guy Hands Wants to Buy EMI Back
Just a week after loosing control of EMI to Citigroup, Terra Firma's Guy Hands says he'd be interested in buying EMI back. “It's about price," Hands said in a speech to that was his first public appearance since losing the label group. But Hands didn't stop there... “Terra Firma and Citigroup agreed on what EMI was ...
The Official Music Industry Launch Calendar - Plus: Six Reasons to be Excited for Music in 2011
2011 will be the year that defines the trajectory of digital music. The developments that everyone has been waiting for are on their way. In the past few months, launch dates for Spotify, Apple in the Cloud, Slacker On-Demand, and Sony's Music Unlimited have been confirmed. As well, the major court decision in the EMI vs. ...
Sonicbids and Songtrust Partner for D.I.Y Publishing
Later today Sonicbds further expands its artist services offering with the addition of a new Songtrust app within each artist's account. The app will help members manage their music publishing rights inexpensively and without the help of a publisher. Songtrust, developed by Downtown Music, simplifies song registration and royalty collections, and is on its way to ...
How To: Optimize the Individual Fan Experience
This post is by Brian Vinikoor, the Head of Marketing at Secret Road. “We're having a great day here at Zappos" is the first of many enthusiastic lines you hear when calling customer support at Zappos. If I've had a rough day, I half-jokingly consider calling Zappos where they even have a phone-line to host their “Joke of ...
Fanatic.FM Connects Bands with Brands for Charity
How to monetize music is the biggest challenge of the post-Napster music industry. At Midem 2010, Ian K. introduced himself with an exciting concept that's a four-way win for artists, brands, charities and fans. I've acted as an advisor since and late last week, Ian launched fanatic.fm in beta with Samsung Imaging as the lead sponsor. ...
Foolish and Crazy - Getting a Job in the Music Industry
The job market in the music industry is the most unforgiving one in the world. If you want to get a job here, either you have connections or your work ethic is unparalleled. And even then, you might fail. I remember being 16 or 17 when I started to think about getting a job in the ...
SXSW Accelerator Names Music Tech Finalists
More than four hundred companies submitted their web-based products to the third annual SXSW Accelerator presented by Microsoft BizSpark. It was the first year that SXSW created a special music tech category and I enjoyed being on the panel of judges that chose the eight finalists and two alternates. If you're heaed to SXSW (and if ...
88% Of Shoppers Abandon Items in Online Basket
Shopping carts are essential to eCommerce. It's how fans buy stuff from your site. But they can also be the reason why fans don't buy from your site. 88% of shoppers abandon items in their cart and never complete the transaction. 1 in 4 online retailers have seen cart abandonment rise higher now than in previous ...
