Results for "HypeBot"

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News: Technology

Xumanii: Stream and Monetize Live Music Concerts

July 23, 2010

XUMANII (pronounced “zoo-mon-ee") has launched; it is live media production, marketing, and social networking site that encompasses elements of Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Ustream, etc. while also allowing users capability to monetize their online presence. The site lets users stream live footage in near perfect resolution directly to their personal profile page. To do so, users ...

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News: Music Industry

5 Reason Not to Sign a Record Deal

July 23, 2010

This guest post comes from the folks at likeZEBRA, a new site offering artists a growing suite of direct to fan promotion and sales tools. 1. Competition for Attention--Music artists are already forced to compete for the attention and interest of fans; they shouldn't have to compete for that attention within their own ...

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News: Event

Ryan Van Etten Reports for Hypebot at NMS

July 22, 2010

Ryan Van Etten (@ryanve), Editor/Producer of VirtualMusic.tv, is our featured corespondent, reporting live for Hypebot at New Music Seminar in New York. If you see him, be sure to say “Hi!" and tell him all the great things about your company that appeared on that press release you sent out, that somehow, got overlooked. Here's what ...

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News: Music Industry

Does the Record Industry Ignore Baby Boomers?

July 22, 2010

More specifically, can they afford to? On a national touring level, it's easy to see that most of the acts out there, making rounds, aren't targeted towards today's youth, as much as they are adults. While teens listen to the groups and may go, the legacy acts and their dominance has more to do with the ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Nancy Baym's Summer Reading List

July 22, 2010

Nancy Baym is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas and author of the Online Fandom blog. Some readers will remember that she's been interviewed on here in the past. Here at Hypebot, we are rolling out our summer reading lists, written by some of the leading thinkers in the industry. ...

News: Music Industry

Music Industry Snobbery: The Inferiority of Issues

July 22, 2010

Bruce and I run a fairly niche publication and sometimes it's interesting to compare the conversations that we are having with that of the mainstream media. There's a story on CNN that begs the question, “Is the death of the CD looming?“ It's not that it isn't a great, relevant question. It's that it just isn't ...

News: Technology

Steve Rubel: Six Digital Trends to Watch

July 22, 2010

\Steve Rubel is SVP, Director of Insights for Edelman Digital, a division of Edelman--the world's largest independent PR firm. So, when he says these are six digital trends to watch, people tend to take notice and see to what he has to say. This slide show recently appeared on his site; its worth clicking through and ...

News: Event

More from the New Music Seminar

July 22, 2010

“It's our responsibility to monetize anarchy“--Jim Griffin @billboardbiz: The Top 50 new songs account for 2/3rds of all song downloads last year. @artisanalmich: Hey guys, the truth hurts. Don't boo terrestrial radio. It is what it is. Highly curated with lots of gatekeepers. Martin Atkins on the real secret to using social media: “It's like Japanese ...

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News: Music Industry

5 Reasons Not to Sign a Record Deal

July 22, 2010

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News: Award / Grant

Mercury Prize Shortlist Announced

July 22, 2010

The nominees for the Mercury Prize 2010 Albums of the Year have been announced. Biffy Clyro 'Only Revolutions' Villagers 'Becoming A Jackal' Corinne Bailey Rae 'The Sea' Mumford & Sons 'Sigh No More' Paul Weller 'Wake Up The Nation' Wild Beasts 'Two Dancers' Kit Downes Trio 'Golden' ...