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Watunes Wants to Become the New Myspace
“WaTunes to Become the New MySpace?" is the headline of the press release, but we'll all have to wait until after Sept 28th to learn more more. That's when the free online music distributor launches WaTunes New Experience. The company does say that the upgrade includes Skype integration which enables artists and fans to communicate directly ...
Album Sales Continue Downward Spiral
Billboard shares an analysis of the latest bad news on the music sales front. The highlights (low points?) include: Album sales were down 18.1% compared to last year, 31% compared to '07 The July 5 week period 6/28 - 8/1 was down 10.3% compared to the same period in '08 and 22.8% vs. '07. Michael ...
Hypebot Revisited: 100 Free and Affordable High and Low Tech Music Promotion Tips
As part of Hypebot's 5th Anniversary, we're bringing back some of our favorite articles. This 100 Tips post needs some updating after almost 2 years, but aside perhaps from “Infiltrating Columbia Records Site With An Anti-Label Ad", it is one of our most read and linked to posts ever. There's lots of great and simple stuff ...
Cradle to Grave: The Untold Story of Digital Natives
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor Among the population of one billion youth born after 1980, much significance is placed on their “use" of digital technologies. By doing so, we have, in turn, underestimated the major “role" in which a unique combination psychological and technological obsolescence has played in their daily lives. All the while, it appears ...
Music Blog Network Mog Gets $5 Million More
Music blogging network MOG has closed a $5 million equity financing round lead by Menlo Ventures. Long-time investors Simon Equity Partners and Scott Jones have also participated to the round and will be joined on the board by Sonja Hoel Perkins of Menlo Ventures. MOG has raised $12.5 million dollars in funding to date. A number ...
Social Networking Only Works when It's Real
You've got thousands of friends on Facebook and have gamed your MySpace plays up to the tens of thousands. But it's not translating into people coming to shows or ordering a t-shirt. Perhaps, as marketing guru Seth Godin suggests, it's because your social networking isn't real. It's the internet equivalent of “I love ya babe, let's ...
Building His Career from the Basement Up
Every week for 90 minutes indie musician Mathew Ebel performs live from his basement on the internet via UStream. During this performance, captured by WBUR in Boston, Ebel has about 300 viewers spread across the globe who interact with him and each other during the set. Ebel has used ...
What Myspace Buying iLike Means for Musicians
You've spent countless hours tweaking your iLike profile. You're using iLike widgets to spread the word across other sites and particularly on Facebook where its the most popular music app available. But now MySpace has bought iLike and things are going to change. Facebook is going to kick iLike widgets off their ...
9 Of 10 in U.S. Don't Listen to Music on Cell
image via GigaOm 9 out of 10 people in the U.S. never listen to music on their cell phones. That's the key finding in a new Forester Research study The Future Of Music On Cell Phones. In my opinion. the music and cellular industries have only themselves to blame. Until the ...
iTunes Sells 25% of All Us Music, 69% of Downloads
But You Still Need To Press A CD A new NPD MusicWatch study shows that now iTunes leads the U.S. with 25% percent of total music sold including downloads and CDs That's up from 21% in '08 and 14% in '07. Walmart (including Walmart, Walmart.com, Walmart Music Downloads) remains in second position ...
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