Results for "HypeBot"

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News: Award / Grant

Pandora and OK Go Top Webby Music Awards

May 6, 2010

The Webby's announced its web site award winners and OK GO captured top honors as Film & Video Artist Of The Year. Pandora also came out on top capturing the Music category both with judges and “People's Voice" voters. Webby Award Winner Agency/Credited Organization Pandora

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News: Music Industry

MySpace Lost $150m in Last 3 Months

May 6, 2010

MySpace lost parent News Corp. $150 million for the quarter that ended March 31st compared with an $88 million loss a year earlier. The fall of MySpace was just one of the stories behind a mixed report to investors from the media giant. News Corp. earned $839 million in the fiscal third quarter. That's a 69% ...

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News: Video / DVD

YouTube to Offer New Income Stream for Videos

May 5, 2010

YouTube is set to expand it's pay to view platform, according to company executives. The new self-service platform will make it easier for filmmakers and other content creators to upload video content onto YouTube and charge for it. But will fans be willing to pay to watch a band's latest music video when there's so much ...

News: Music Industry

MusikPitch Offers Lame Explanation of Terms That Grab Ownership from Songwriters

May 5, 2010

Last week MusikPitch launched an online marketplace for custom songwriting. Clients post their needs for songs along with a budget and songwriters submit tracks. But as some astute Hypebot readers discovered, the terms (see terms after the jump below) require songwriters to give up all ownership of the chosen songs to MusikPitch. So if your dream ...

News: Music Industry

May 4th - A Day to Fight DRM

May 5, 2010

Support of today's Day Against DRM is more important than ever. It's an attractive notion to think that DRM is dead in music. In so many senses music is more portable than ever. But it's also important to remember that labels are still asking download retailers to tag each song with an identifier when sold or ...

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News: Music Industry

Even Tom Petty Gives His Music Away Free

May 4, 2010

Tom Petty will hedging his bets when he heads out on tour this summer. Not only will a rotating all-star cast of opening acts including Joe Cocker, Crosby, Stills and Nash, ZZ Top, Buddy Guy and others join him for the concerts, but he's giving every fan who buys a ticket to one of the shows ...

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News: Technology

It Could Be Long Wait For iTunes in the Cloud as Labels Argue Multiple Use and Demand More $'s

May 4, 2010

When a fan buys a legal DRM-free MP3, they can listen to it anywhere, right? We'll maybe, say the major labels, as long as they don't store it in or play it from an online music locker. News last week that Lala.com was shutting down at the end of the month, led to increased speculation that ...

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News: Technology

New Study Examines U.S. Twitter Usage

May 4, 2010

A new report from Edison Research/Arbitron Internet details Twitter awareness and usage of Twitter, as well as, demographics, behaviors, and preferences. Highlights of the online presentation (below): Awareness of Twitter grew from 5% of Americans 12+ in 2008 to 87% in 2010 Twitter still trails Facebook significantly in usage: 7% use Twitter while 41% maintain ...

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News: Technology

iPad Sales Top 1 Million in Just 28 Days

May 4, 2010

Not sure if creating special content for the iPad is worth it? Apple today announced that it sold its one millionth iPad on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction. iPad users have downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store, but purchased just 1.5 million ebooks from the new iBookstore. ...

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News: Music Industry

A New Artist Checklist from SoundExchange

May 4, 2010

In response to questions about what new artists should do to launch their careers and protect their creative output SoundExchange has put together a strong New Artist Checklist. No matter how long a band has been around, there's probably at least one thing on this list that they've forgotten to do. Read SoundExchange's New Artist Checklist ...