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Interview: Chris Vinson and David Dufresne, Founder/CTO and Ceo of Bandzoogle (PT. 2)
Read Part One. Kyle Bylin: “For every institution that failed, for every business model that outlived its usefulness, new and better ones rushed in the fill the void," Richard Florida says in his book The Great Reset. “Past periods of crisis eventually gave rise to new epochs of great ingenuity and inventiveness." He argues that, that ...
The Case for the Billboard Top 40 over 40 List
This last week, Billboard ran their annual 30 under 30 list, identifying the “rising young executives who are driving our business forward with their artistic and business vision." It's a great inventory of up-and-coming power players in the industry, but it's quite ironic that it ran the same week as this story in Newsweek, which effectively ...
A Graphic Look at the Social Networking Map 2010
What does the social networking map look like in 2010. Facebook is dominant, but who knew that Harbo was so strong globally? Then there are networks like Bebo, Friendster and even MySpace who many have declared passe are still attracting some new members. Another trend is the growing number of theme or service based sites that ...
Cary Sherman, the RIAA, and Their Failure to Change the Culture of File-Sharing
It's not hard to imagine why the RIAA is one of the most loathed, criticized and beleaguered industry trade groups of the last decade. Cary Sherman is the president of their board of directors and has worked there for 13 years; he is, more or less, the public face of the organization, known most famously for ...
Five Rules for How to Make Media Go Viral
As music marketing manager, you have probably headdesked yourself more times than you've celebrated the event of your media going viral. More likely yet, you have probably never had anything go truly viral—ever. Here to help, Jonah Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, has outlined his five rules for making things go viral. The rules are: Create media ...
Interview: Chris Vinson and David Dufresne, Founder/CTO and CEO of Bandzoogle (PT. 1)
Recently, I spoke with Chris Vinson and David Dufresne, who are respectively founder/CTO and CEO of Bandzoogle, a company that offers a do-it-yourself website builder and a suite of direct-to-fan marketing tools for artists. At present, they are also working on a yet-to-launch project named Backfed, which they described to me as “a fan-to-artist payment system ...
Video: Twitter Exec Matt Graves Shares Advice for Musicians and How Kanye West Used Twitter to Connect with Justin Bieber and Raekwon
How to use Twitter effectively is still a mystery to many. In this short video shot by Danny Dee at last week's Bandwidth Conference, Twitter communications executive Matt Graves shares a few tips for musicians and then the story of how Kayne West used Twitter to connect with Justin Beiber and collaborate with Raekwon.
Hey Chris Anderson, the Web Isn't Dead
Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson made the claim last week that the web is dead. Since then, a number of leading experts have weighed in against his thesis and had some rather damning things to say. Most notably, Rob Beschizza at Boing Boing immediately found the graph that ran with the story to be suspect, because it ...
Overheard @ Bandwidth (#bandwidthsf) (PT. 2)
From Hypebot's eyes and ears at Bandwidth @DannyDee Echo Spin powers Universal Music Groups Direct-To-Fan efforts. “you still need a label to help rise above the glut" Rich Bengloff @a2im “DIY is a lack of infrastructure, that's why labels r more important than ever...its more streamlined" Brad Navin “Digital Only" releases are only 1.88% of the business ...
SoundCloud Creates Creative Commons Page
Ever wish you that had a pool of tens of thousands Creative Commons samples, loops and music tracks that you could find, remix, and re-use? Throw in an advanced search tool and tagging system and that made it super easy to get ahold of the exact free-to-use samples and audio that you were looking for. That's ...
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