Results for "HypeBot"

Indaba Music Adds on-Demand CD Production, Offers Hypebot Readers Free Trial of Service

September 15, 2010

Online collaboration community Indaba Music now provides its users with on-demand and personalized CD production services. In partnering with CustomCD, the company will expand its growing collection of third party applications, information resources and lifestyle benefits. The pricing that Indaba Music is offering with this service: they charge $5.50 per disc and the user keeps 100% ...

McAfee Study Says Free Music Comes at a Price

September 15, 2010

It's seems that all this free music may be almost as bad for your computer as it has been for the bottom line of the average record label. A new report by anit-virus software maker McAfee outlines the threat of “free" MP3s, software, streaming video, fan pages and malicious ads that appear even on well-established web ...

A Graphic Surprise: iPhones and Androids Do Not Dominate Smartphone Market

September 15, 2010

New Music Seminar's Dave Lory Launches New Artist Services and Management Company

September 15, 2010

Former industry executive and artist manager Dave Lory has created a new artist services, management, and production company called DJL Artist Services. Aiming to put to use philosophies and practices that Lory learned while partnering with Tom Silverman to bring back New Music Seminar in 2009; he is positioning his company to facilitate not only traditional ...

"Artists Are Still Afraid of New Technology," Says Kevin Breuner of CD Baby. Interview Part One.

September 14, 2010

Recently, I spoke with Kevin Breuner, who is the Marketing Project Manager at CD Baby and host of the DIY Musician Podcast. In the first part of this interview, Breuner talks about the two main shifts that make online possible for artists, why it's often erroneously stated how technology savvy most artists are, and gives his ...

Why Free Isn't Free, nor is It Forever: Reactions to Bandcamp Charging for Free Downloads

September 14, 2010

Great services such as Bandcamp can't stay free forever. In an attempt to diversify their revenue streams and create a more sustainable future for their service, the company switched from a free to a paid model. So too, in hoping to unburden their system of the users that were using the site as a means to ...

The Aura of Music Has Been Imbued in Objects

September 14, 2010

In his most recent New York Times column, Rob Walker, author of Buying In: What We Buy and Who We Are, explores the increased emphasis on band-branded merchandise and the complications of that surround music as we venture into a post-format world. The challenge before us, he argues, is that we have to “imbue objects with ...

Slicethepie Retools Fan Funding, Partners with UMG

September 14, 2010

(UPDATED) Slicethepie has made significant changes to its fan financing platform. All financed artists now keep 100% of proceeds from their project. The site also finished conversion to US currency and added more flexibility in what artists can offer supporters. Recently,  Slicethepie has faced increased competition from Kickstarter and other funding platforms. More artists are also ...

Brightcove Study Shows Online Video Shift

September 14, 2010

Video platform Brightcove and analytics firm TubeMogul have issed their Online Video & the Media Industry Research Report for Q2 2010. The report, which showed some important shifts in the online video landscpaed, surveyed nearly 2,000 news and entertainment websites representing 3.4 billion video streams. Some key findings: Rapid Growth: Online video consumption grew across all ...

For Fans, by Fans: A Crowd-Sourced Radiohead Film

September 14, 2010

I've finally gotten the chance to read Clay Shirky's previous book Here Comes Everybody; this fan initiative struck me as right up that alley. Last summer, 62 fans attended a Radiohead show in Prague and filmed the concert using various handheld devices. They pooled their footage together and edited it together into this two-hour film of ...