Results for "HypeBot"

Overheard at New Music Seminar

July 21, 2010

New Music Seminar is taking place in full force today, here are just a few of the conversations happening on Twitter:  Susan Boyle's sales are 97% physical.  Music has a 10/90 rule--10% of your fans will provide 90% of your revenue. Actually email is like a river--fans dip in an out of the information stream. Engagement ...

Interview: Rich Huxley of UK Band Hope and Social

July 21, 2010

“When we involve people in the making of our art, that only serves to strengthen our bond, we're in this together us and ourfans, and they're the best PR team we've never paid for."--RichRecently, I spoke with Rich Huxley (@thehuxcapacitor), who is a member of popular UK band Hope and Social, and author ...

Bandzoogle: $2.5 Million in Commission Free Sales

July 21, 2010

Direct-to-fan marketing platform Bandzoogle has announced that its musician members have exceeded $2.5 million in commission-free sales from their websites. This serves as an important milestone for the company. “When I created Bandzoogle, my goal was to build a tool that would help independent musicians succeed online," said Chris Vinson, president of Bandzoogle. “These numbers show ...

MP3tunes: Bringing iTunes Music to a TV Near You

July 21, 2010

MP3tunes has partnered with Roku, allowing fans to play their personal iTunes music collection on their TV without a PC or home server. Roku, a streaming entertainment device provider, has added expanded support for music collections with the addition of MP3tunes. This feature is available now on all Roku players; its customers receive 10GB of free ...

Consider a Promotionless to Popular Strategy First

July 21, 2010

If there's anything that Bruce Warila is well-known for, it's smashing heads with conventional thinking and providing new insight into why artists do the things they do, and more specifically, why they shouldn't do others. In his latest contribution to Music Think Tank, Warila takes his shiny axe to the idea that artists should always be ...

GigMaven: Helping Musicians to Self Book Shows

July 21, 2010

GigMaven is a website that makes it easier for indie artists to book shows at venues.  Utilizing analytics from The Next Big Sound, which pulls data from all over the Internet; it gives the venue useful insight into how well an artist is doing. The company has established relationships with music venues in major markets such ...

MOG Mobile Music App Introduced

July 21, 2010

On-demand digital music service MOG has announced that its mobile streaming music application is now available for download through Apple's App Store and on Android Market. The MOG mobile app is free to download and users can enjoy a three day trial. Full-access to the app costs 10$; its features include unlimited downloads, on-demand streaming, MOG ...

Fanbridge Introduces "FanRank" Feature

July 21, 2010

Direct-to-fan platform FanBridge has released a new feature called “FanRank." It is an automated fan list segmentation engine based on loyalty/engagement fans demonstrate across email, social networks, mobile, etc. This new, free feature has already been enabled in every FanBridge account and each week updates itself.  Their goal with FanRank is to enable artists to better ...

Why audimated.com Paying Your Fans is a Bad Idea

July 21, 2010

Audimated.com is a new social media site for independent musicians and fans; they want to help artists make more money with their music, and give fans a financial incentive to promote the artists they support. What's wrong with this? For simple, straightforward tasks “if-then“ rewards, like financial incentives, work outstanding.  Such would be the case ...

Ditto Music: Get Your Music on iTunes in 24 Hours

July 20, 2010