Results for "HypeBot"

What Will Fans Pay For?

November 13, 2009

This guest post first appeared on Debbie Chachra's blog zed equals zee. Debbie is a Cambridge, MA based academic, music fan, and geek, not always in that order. You can also follow her on Twitter. I know that there is ideology on both sides: people who feel that all music should be free, and people who ...

Bringing Digital Music to the Masses

November 13, 2009

If digital music is to reach mainstream adoption, the music industry must eliminate the barriers that confuse many non-techie consumers. That's the conclusion of Forrester analyst Mark Mulligan's new report “Taking Digital Music To The Mainstream: The Music Product Features For The Living Room". Easier and cheaper hardware if the key to the conversion according to ...

Falling Traffic at Myspace Will Cut $100 Million from Google Ad Payments

November 8, 2009

stats via Alexa Falling traffic at MySpace will cost it $100 million in payments from Google ads according to estimates offered by executives of parent company News Corp. In 2006 Google agreed pay $900 million for the exclusive right to provide search advertising to MySpace over three years based on traffic volume. “We're still losing traffic," ...

Lost in a Sea of 100,000 iPhone Apps

November 6, 2009

Apple announced this week that developers have created more than 100,000 apps for its App Store for iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries. Users have downloaded two billion apps to date. Some music apps are instant hits. “With 10,000 downloads a day, worldwide customer response to our I Am T-Pain ...

IFPI: "Illegal File-Sharing Reduces Legitimate Sales" What Do You Think?

November 6, 2009

Global recording industry trade group the IFPI predictably responded to a new UK study that downloaders of unauthorized music also spend more money than average adding to their music collections legally. “The net effect of illegal file-sharing in the UK and elsewhere has been to reduce legitimate sales. This is why spending on recorded music ...

Echo Nest to Enhance MOG's All Access

November 5, 2009

The Echo Nest will help power MOG's All Access music offering when it launched near the end of this month. Echo Nest is a proprietary machine learning platform that listens to and reads about music across the web to power better music search, recommendation and interactivity. According to David Hyman, CEO of MOG, “MOG All Access ...

A Tale of Two Industries: What Do Books and Music Have in Common?

November 5, 2009

Kyle Bylin, Assoicate Editor In recent news reports, it's becoming more and more apparent -- that at a time when the record industry is reeling from changes that it barely understands -- other industries are beginning to experience many of the same transformations. Take, for instance, the recent pricing war between Wal-Mart and ...

NARM Invites Hypebot Readers to Online Music Consumer Behavior Seminar

November 5, 2009

The National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) is inviting Hypebot readers to attend an online seminar this Thursday, November 5th that will examine the results of a recent study of U.S. music consumer buying habits. Membership in NARM is not required. Under President Jim Donio and Bill Wilson, Director Of Business Development & Digital Strategy, the ...

A Graphic Look at the Rise of Digital Music

November 5, 2009

Use Lala and Myspace to Improve Google Results

November 5, 2009

Along with Lala's new deal to provide enhanced music search results for Google alongside MySpace and others comes word that indie artists and label will be able to control and improve the content of their search results according to Matt Rosoff on CNet's “Eventually, artists will be able to use Lala's platform to ensure that specific ...