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Former EMI Exec Syd Schwartz Opens Linchpin Digital Music Consultancy
Digital marketing veteran Syd Schwartz has formed Linchpin Digital to provide marketing and strategic solutions for the music, media, gaming and technology industries. Initial clients include Dympol, his former employers EMI Music and Wind-Up Records, Red Light Management and Umphrey's McGee “Linchpin's focus is in creating business opportunities and marketing strategies around the relationship between fans ...
Old-School Major Label Executive Knows His Stuff
In just about any good rant on the record industry, a reader can expect to find two elements. First, that record labels are evil empires that prey on our children and sell them the image of Hannah Montana. Second, that they're run by a bunch of old and struggling dinosaurs that have no idea what they're ...
Music Would Suck Less if You Savored It More
Jeff Pollack, CEO of Pollack Media Group, made some very interesting assertions in his most recent column at The Huffington Post. In it, he expresses his concern about the number of comments he's received in the last few months that berate the quality of popular music and present that as reasoning behind the decline in the ...
'Most Ways That Artists Try to Earn Money Will Fail.'
Guardian columnist Helienne Lindvall had some choice words for the proprietors of free last week. Among those charged with misleading artists and telling them to give everything away for free was Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing. Funny thing is, Doctorow is a Guardian columnist too. So, when accused of charging high speaking fees on one ...
ASCAP Cuts Payments Just Months After Issuing a Glowing Forecast
In April of this year, ASCAP announced, “Music is performed more often, in more places, in more ways by more businesses than ever before. That expanded music use, combined with dramatic ASCAP Membership growth, market share increases and effective strategic management have led to stunning revenue and distribution growth for 2009." 2009 collections had risen $48 million ...
October 2010: New Features; New Opportunities
by Michael Ricci
Dear fellow musician: All About Jazz recently relaunched our website, making significant changes to our appearance and expanding the services we offer musicians. We've outlined some of the various opportunities that you can take advantage of below. Our immediate plans are focused on improving our calendar of jazz events and ...
Why Record Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future
Wayne Rosso, a columnist at The Music Void, has written a highly insightful and almost cryptic item about the irony of the digital future of the record industry. Basically, the major labels have made it so difficult for music startups to sustain themselves that no one wants to get into the field or invest in the ...
What Do You Really Think About the Piracy Issue?
This guest post is written by Chris R. at CD Baby's DIY Musican blog. Some folks in this over-saturated industry equate music piracy with free promotion, reciting the popular soundbite that “obscurity is a greater danger than theft" (Think of BitTorrent pitching their new Artists Pilot Program as a way to “amp up your audience"). Others ...
What Will the Next Decade in Music Look Like?
That's a big question. One that I promise that I don't have the answer to. It's provoked by the fact that ten years ago this week, Shawn Fanning graced the cover of Time Magazine. The cover raised the question, “What's Next For Napster?" Indeed, by now, most of us know that story all too well. Both ...
The Echo Nest Raises $7 Million in Venture Financing
Music intelligence firm The Echo Nest has raised $7 million in venture financing. The lead financier is Matrix Partners, as well as, their existing investor Commonwealth Capitol. The company intends to use these additional funds to “support growth of its music intelligence platform" and “expand its team." This means that Mr. Eliot Van Buskirk, former Wired ...
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