Results for "HypeBot"

Does Spotify Already Have 30,000 Users in U.S.?

June 8, 2010

And WMG The Reason It Has Not Launched Here? Spotify already has 30,000 users in the U.S. according to chatter from the Stockholm (Spoitfy's home) tech scene and first reported TechCrunch. So why not just launch the damn thing in the U.S. officially? Not so fast, says Spotify, the report is “completely factually incorrect". But Glenn ...

Why Your Right to Sell Promo CDs Matters

June 5, 2010

This guest post is by Fred von Lohmann, the Senior Staff Attorney of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. On Monday, a federal court of appeals in Seattle will consider whether it is legal to resell “promo CDs." You've seen them, the CDs mailed out for free by record labels to industry insiders, reviewers, and radio stations, each ...

Value-Added Music Gets a Logo

June 5, 2010

Music industry trade group NARM has created a promotional icon and messaging program dubbed “music + more“ to support the sale of physical, digital and mobile music that contains value-added or enhanced content. An October 2009 Deluxe Products Survey showed that 60% of respondents believe that consumers are “more likely" to purchase deluxe product over the ...

ArtistData Has Now Made 3.75 Million Updates

June 10, 2010

Adds 7 New Syndication Partners ArtistData recently delivered the 3.75 millionth syndicated update on behalf of its artist members. They've also made their syndication offering more powerful by adding 7 more sites to their official list, bringing the total number of sites who pull content from them to 28. “ArtistData is clearly becoming the industry's hub ...

Pandora Gets More Funding

June 4, 2010

Pandora has raised an undisclosed amount of new funding, according to a statement from the company. This round was led by GGV Capital along with Allen & Company. Pandora had previously raised $56.3 million. Pandora is hugely property and one of the few music 2.0 companies that can claim profitability, but it appears to be a ...

The 10 Worst Music Catalog Marketing Ideas Ever

June 9, 2010

From The Orchard's Daily Rind blog via Proper Discord: 1.“We've noticed that a competitor's compilation is selling well, so we spent five minutes creating an almost identical one, and although we are offering no promotional plan or marketing support, we'd like you devise and fund a major retail marketing campaign for it." 2. “Wagner ...

Apple Probe Expands to Other Media

June 2, 2010

Can MySpace Music Survive the MySpace Decline?

June 2, 2010

"MySpace Music profiles remain the simplest, fastest way to check out a new band", argues Ray Padget on Mashable. That's a matter of opinion, but there's no denying that MySpace is still a powerful player in the music space. So the big question may really be, can MySpace Music survive the wider MySpace decline? ...

Live Nation: Here Come the Summer Ticket Promos

June 2, 2010

Faced with a sometimes sluggish concert season and growing complaints from fans over ticketing fees, Live Nation today announced “No Service Fee June" eliminating service fees on nearly 8 million tickets for 700 shows at all 50 Live Nation owned and operated amphitheaters. The announcement comes amidst increasing reports of drastic ticket discounting at many shows,. ...

Update: Story Behind Buzzmedia and the Music Blogs

June 2, 2010

A vaguely worded Memorial Day press release from BuzzMedia which “announced the addition of six established and influential music sites" - PureVolume, PopMatters, Gorilla vs. Bear, The Hype Machine, Concrete Loop and RCRD LBL - “complementing" Buzz's “current music properties" Stereogum, Buzznet, Idolator and Absolute Punk led to speculation that the online media company had bought ...