Results for "HypeBot"

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News: Technology

Sonicbids Acquires ArtistData

June 15, 2010

Exclusive Interview With Sonicbids CEO Panos Panay Sonicbids has acquired ArtistData, a popular platform that many musicians and labels use to simultaneously update their content across the web. The move signals an expansion for Sonicbids beyond its popular electronic press kits and gig opportunities to also helping artists promote their shows after they've been booked. ...

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News: Music Industry

How to Get a Job in the Music Industry

June 15, 2010

Kyle Bylin,Editor --(@kbylin) I. The Rise of a Rebel In August 2008, Bruce found me. At the time, I was twenty-year-old college student and an intern at an indie record label in Minneapolis, MN. I had just published my second blog post--ever. My readership was small--which is a polite way of saying that the ...

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News: Technology

How to Create a Great Digital Music Strategy

June 12, 2010

"What does it mean to be an artist in 2010? What is a record company? A music company? A recorded music company? How do we define and work on music marketing within an ever-changing environment? 'And what about music?' you might ask me. Surely, music is the core of everything." Thus begins the intro to one ...

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News: Technology

P2P Traffic Expected to Double by 2014

June 12, 2010

Ernesto at TorrentFreak reports that forecasts “from Cisco's Visual Networking Index reveal that P2P traffic is predicted to grow to more than 7 Petabytes per month by 2014." He further states that “this is more than double the amount of data P2P traffic generated in 2009." To be sure, this statistic refers to traffic on the ...

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News: Award / Grant

New Music Seminar and Ourstage Announce "Artist on the Verge" Project and Award

June 11, 2010

Hypebot 2 For 1 Discount If You Register Now The New Music Seminar, which is being held July 19 - 21 in New York City, and OurStage are teaming up for the Artists on the Verge new artist project and award. The Artist on the Verge project is aimed to aid aspiring artists who are ...

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News: Technology

Decibel: Music Metadata on Steroids

June 11, 2010

Remember pouring over album liner notes to learn who played that great sax solo on the new Stones album? OK maybe you're too young for that, but there have probably been times when you wanted to learn more about the track you were listening to. New startup Decibel trys to solve that problem by ...

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News: Video / DVD

Online Viewing Shifts Towards Longer Videos

June 11, 2010

A new eMarketer survey points to a brighter future for online concerts and other forms of long form music videos. “If the first iteration of online video was about silly pet tricks on YouTube, the next wave will be about professionally produced full-length content..." according to Paul Verna, eMarketer senior analyst. “This shift will be propelled ...

News: Music Industry

A2IM Hosts NYC Indie Week, Celebrates 5th Anniv.

June 9, 2010

Keynote From Pandora's Tim Westergren Indie label trade organization A2IM is celebrating its5thanniversary year and hosting Indie Week in NYC from June 16 - 18th. This week long event will feature conferences, panels, meetings and sponsored events circling the main theme of how labels can adapt to the evolving music market place. Starting Wednesday, the A2IM ...

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News: Video / DVD

OK Stop: Marketing and Music Videos

June 10, 2010

Since the launch of MTV in 1981, the music video has played a central role in music marketing. So much in fact, that even back then there was large cache of artists, ranging from Adam and the Ants, Duran Duran and Madonna, who owed a great portion of their commercial success to the rapid-fire editing and ...

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News: Music Industry

TuneCore Launches Distribution to MOG, iLike, Tesco

June 10, 2010

And 10+ More Stores Via MediaNet Flat fee digital music distributor TuneCore has announced the addition of iLike, Mog, Tesco, iMesh and 10+ more stores via digital media services provider MediaNet, to its growing list of outlets. Additionally, they will also host and serve a MediaNet/TuneCore co-branded landing page that is linked prominently via MediaNet. ...