Results for "HypeBot"

The Echo Nest Gets $500,000 Grant from National Science Foundation

March 7, 2010

Music recommendation platform The Echo Nest has been awarded a $500,000 Phase IIB SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation. Since 2005, The Echo Nest has been indexing and analyzing music fan activity across the web. The NSF-funded project, entitled “Automated Community and Sentiment Mining for Global Media Preference Understanding" will augment the company's existing “Fanalytics" ...

The State of the Internet

March 7, 2010

RIAA Tells Fans to Stop Nibbling

March 7, 2010

In a post on the RIAA blog, VP of Reaserach Joshua P. Friedlander titled “Nobody Stole The Pie“ argues that the decline in music sales is like the story of the same name by Sonia Levitin. In it the town of Little Digby annually bakes a giant lollyberry pie. When one year the celebrated pie is ...

Overheard at Billboard's Music and Money Symposium

March 7, 2010

Vevo Pres/CEO Rio Caraeff replaced L.A. Reid as the morning keynote. “Vevo creating new programming directly with brands and bands. 30 second music videos for new artists, brought to you by a brand." “When there's no money, people get smart" - Cynthia Sexton (EMI) Hot Topic chief music officer John Kirkpatrick: “We've almost completely moved ...

Apple Finally Notices Amazon MP3 and Declares War

March 4, 2010

iTunes has always done things its own way. What its competitors did was not Apple's concern. After all, ITunes controls the vast majority of the download market. But that's starting to change and Amazon MP3's Daily Deal is the target. The Daily Deal usually prices a current release for $1.99 - $3.99 for a single day. ...

Are Fans Turned Away at Your Virtual Front Door?

March 4, 2010

As the internet browser wars continue, Firefox growth appears stalled, Internet Explorer usage is dropping and Google Chrome is on the rise. Does your web site work well on all these browsers, or are you satisfied with a percentage of your fans and customers being turned away at your virtual front door? chart via ars technica ...

Universal Revenues Slide 6.2%, Digital up 8.4%

March 3, 2010

Universal Music Group's (UMG) revenues were 4,363 million in 2009 a 6.2% decrease compared to 2008. Digital sales grew 8.4% tempered by softening demand for mobile products in the United States and Japan. Music publishing revenues increased 1.7% and UMG newly acquired merchandising division grew 24.6% The year end report touted UMG's support of “Spotify's premium ...

New Stats Show Music Tops YouTube Viewing

March 3, 2010

Watching music videos is the most popular activity on YouTube according to research company Sysomos  accounting for 30.7% of all views. The study was based on measuring the tags on uploaded videos. The study also shows that 20-35 year olds are the primary drivers of YouTube traffic. Embedding and linking to videos on social network and ...

RightsFlow Partners with the Royalty Network

March 3, 2010

The Royalty Network, an independent music publisher and administrator and RightsFlow, a provider of bulk mechanical licensing and royalty services, announced a new partnership granting RightsFlow a blanket license for The Royalty Network's entire catalog. This blanket access will allow RightsFlow to more accurately identify, account, and remit royalties on behalf of their over 9,500 label, ...

Thumplay Adds Apple Exec, to Launch Mobile Music Streaming on Thursday

March 3, 2010

Pablo Calamera, who oversaw technology development for MobileMe at Apple has joined Thumbplay as their Chief Technological Officer.  In this newly-created position, Calamera, will have oversight of all technology initiatives for the company including Thumbplay Music, a cloud-based service that provides unlimited, on-demand access to millions of songs.  Thursday Launch Thumbplay Music, which has been in ...