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Moontoast Impulse: A New Social Commerce, Music Application for Facebook [launch]
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Moontoast Impulse is a new music app for Facebook that let's fans listen, share, and buy without leaving the site. The entire song transaction occurs within Facebook. The app lives on an artist's Facebook page; it has a customizable interface. Fans can share individual songs and post them on their wall for their friends to see. ...
Official: Myspace Cuts 500, 47% of Staff
In an official statement today, MySpace CEO Mike Jones confirmed that about 500 employees will be cut globally. “With our recent relaunch as an entertainment destination for Gen Y, we introduced a much tighter focus, a significantly streamlined product and an updated technology platform," according to Jones. The cuts come at the same time that parent ...
An Interview with DFTBA Records Co-Founder Alan Lastufka on Running a Digital Music Label
Recently, I spoke with Alan Lastufka, who is co-founder of the digital label DFTBA Records with Hank Green and author of YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts. He's also a successful musician, graphic designer, and YouTuber, among many other things. After news broke that DFTBA Records had cleared $1 million in sales in two ...
In Defense of Ultimate Chart - It's More Than Hype
After comparing the hype surrounding Ultimate Chart with the result, Richard MacManus, the Founder and Editor of Read Write Web, felt underwhelmed. Numerous publications and music industry thinkers, including myself, proclaimed Ultimate Chart to be nothing short of a game changer and a Godsend. So why, after all this publicity and enthusiasm, does Ultimate Chart look ...
To Err is Human, to Arr is Pirate - Court Forces Major Labels to Pay $45m in Copyright Violation Claims
The big four major labels—EMI, Sony, Universal, and Warner—are being required to pay upwards of $45 million to a group of artists and composers to close a class action lawsuit filed against them in Canada. This agreement will resolve the copyright infringement claims that were brought against them for selling CDs containing songs that the record ...
Seth Godin's Five Ingredients of Smart Online Commerce
It depends. These five ingredients of smart online commerce might apply to you. They may not. Marketer Seth Godin analyzed why companies like Penguin Magic and ibex succeed at selling things online. Here are five things, according to Godin, they do that make them successful online: 1) They sell a product you can't buy at the local ...
How Oversaturation Hurts the Touring Industry
In an interview with Subba-Culcha, Jim Root of Slipknot and Stone Sour got asked his opinion on the state of the music industry and the devaluation of recorded music. As someone who hasn't left the road in almost 11 years, Root knows all too well that touring is the only way to make money from music. ...
How Artists Can Profit from File Sharing and Give Back to Their Fans Along the Way
This week on Music Think Tank started out with a post by Chris Bracco on 6 ways to give back to your fans. He delves into strategies that artists can use to keep their fans interested and coming back for more. Next, Jim Grobecker, a new author, presents a post on how artists can profit from ...
Supreme Court Says Major Label Price Fixing Lawsuit Can Move Forward
The U.S. Supreme Court has made the decision to allow a lawsuit accusing the four major labels of conspiring to fix music prices to move forward. The labels appealed to prevent this from happening, but the Supreme Court has chosen not to stop the lawsuit. "The case is Sony Music Entertainment v. Kevin Starr, though it involves ...
Merlin "Concerned" Indies May Not Get Fair Deal from Google Music, Signs Deal with Rdio
Indie trade group Merlin has signed a deal with Rdio to stream the music of its members which include such key indie labels as Rough Trade, Epitaph, Naxos, Beggars, Merge and Domino. The deal fills a major hole in the Rdio offering. At the same time, a leaked email to Merlin members states that while talks ...
