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Highlights from SF MusicTech: Unify, Engage, Find Social Sweet Spot, Personalize and Monetize
Yesterday Hisham Dahud attended the 7th San Francisco Music Tech Summit as a correspondent for Hypebot. Each year the summit brings together leaders in music and tech, along with the developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations. Here are the highlights: Engaging Your Fans Chris Vinson of Bandzoogle recommends using the artist website as ...
IRIS and A2IM Launch Another Anti-Piracy Campaign
IRIS Distribution has launched its “I Share Everything But My Music" T-Shirt campaign. Their goal is to promote music ownership and support for the musicians that create it. The logo on the T-Shirt aims to educate kids about music piracy without being heavy-handed. It's a difficult message to communicate. If the point is too aggressive, kids ...
How to Get a Free Tubeify Account
If blog buzz is any measure, in the last few days music fans can't get enough of free music service Tubeify. This mashup of Last.fm and YouTube allows for unrestricted music discovery and playlisting. It's not Spotify or MOG, but it is free and available everywhere. Is Tubefy legal? The creators are obviously hoping to take ...
Live Performances and Music Business Plans
These past two weeks on Music Think Tank, we concentrated on performances and the music business plan. Matthew Ebel wrote about how live performances should give the same experience as performances in church. Marcus Taylor gave his opinion on why money is bad for your band which led to a debate within the MTT community. Kevin ...
PledgeMusic Starts Record Label, Signs First Band
With the goal of fully leveraging their Pledge system as an A&R platform, PledgeMusic has launched a record label and publishing company. Indie starlets The Damnwells are the first act to sign on with PledgeMusic Recordings; they will retain all rights, ownership, and publishing. In turn, PledgeMusic Recordings will provide the group with the guidance and ...
Jelli Interview: Help Indie Artists Get Radio Airplay
This week Apple made Jelli a “Featured" app in the App Store. Recently, I spoke with Mike Dougherty, who is CEO of Jelli, a crowdsourced and social radio service. In this interview, Dougherty talks about how his company is teaming up with traditional radio and the ways in which Jelli has enabled indie artists to get ...
10 Success Strategies for DIY Musicians, Managers, and Promoters
The holiday season is upon us and Bob Baker is presenting a gift to readers of Music Think Tank: a new, six page report called 10 Success Strategies for DIY Musicians, Managers, Promoters and More. Head to Music Think Tank to get your copy! "I encourage you to share this free report with anyone you feel ...
VH1: Still Saving the Music, 13 Years Later
At the end of the day, what we're all trying to do is save the music. To get a better idea about how optimistic we should be about its future, I decided to talk with Paul Cothran. He's Executive Director of the VH1 Save The Music Foundation. I thought it would be interesting to speak with ...
Gerd Leonhard: "Music Industry Will Be Totally Disrupted and Re-Booted by Outsiders"
“The music industry will be totally disrupted and re-booted by outsiders, once again (just like back in the first days of radio—an illegal medium, at that time, as well—and Philips & the invention of the CD Player, etc), only that this time it will be the artists, writers, composers and producers that will be the ...
4 Ways Google is Distancing Itself from Piracy
In discussions about online piracy, it's often brought up that Google contributes to piracy as much as anyone else does. Fans don't need to visit the Pirate Bay to find torrents. They can type the same terms in Google and likely get better results. With the rollout of their Autocomplete function, it's been observed that Google ...
