Results for "HypeBot"

Strong Growth Continues for Online Radio

August 12, 2009

CMX: Yet Another New Digital Album Format

August 11, 2009

All four major label groups are working together to create a new format for the digital album tentatively titled CMX. Scheduled for a partial roll-out in November, the new digital format would include liner notes, lyrics, artwork and videos along with the mp3's in a single download. The labels apparently approached Apple about involvement in the ...

Despite Hype Most Teens Don't Use Twitter

August 11, 2009

Twitter's growth and the accompanying hype has encouraged music marketers to find innovative ways to use the service to help artists to stay hyper-connected with their most loyal fans. But a small Morgan Stanley sampling last month claimed that Twitter adoption was not equal among all age categories. Now a far greater group, Nielson's 250K strong ...

Artistdirect Leaves Nasdaq

August 8, 2009

ArtistDirect, which went public in a blaze of unrealized glory, is voluntarily pulling itself off the NASDAQ stock exchange and stopping reports to the SEC. The company operates as popular network of sitest for music and motion picture news and an ad network that is currently ranked 5th in comScore's ranking of music sites. They also ...

Warner Music Reports Mounting Losses

August 7, 2009

In a report to shareholders this morning, Warner Music Group revealed that in the quarter ending June 30th, 2009, total revenue decreased 9.3% and operating income from continuing operations declined 51%. Total losses from continuing operations swelled to $37 million from $9 in the prior year quarter. WMG improved its financial position during the quarter with ...

Vote: Is It OK to Have Ads Inside CD Booklets?

August 5, 2009

Another New Model: Label Signed by Artist

August 4, 2009

The Blue Scholars Sign Label Duck Down It's not a typo - Seattle's Blue Scholars did not sign to the sign to the indie hip hop label Duck Down label. Instead, the band hired the label to handle marketing and other functions for several of their releases. Using money from ...

Stephen Colbert: Black Eyed Peas "Missed so Many Advertunities!"

August 4, 2009

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cMeTunes - Hit of the Summerwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTasers “Peas, please! You guys are the masters of the mass-market sell-out. You missed so many advertunities!" lamented TV host and comedian. Stephen Colbert. To prove the point, Colbert showed possible placements of products from HP, MAC Cosmetics ...

Conditioned to Steal: Popular Music and Obsolescence in America

August 3, 2009

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor To understand the MTV Generation, the Millennials, and the epidemic of file-sharing that has preceded them, Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Outliers, might argue that not only do you have to look beyond the individuals, but also you have to understand the culture that they are ...

ArtistData Opens Platform to Outside Developers

August 1, 2009

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: For more than a year ArtistData has created tools that help artists from the smallest garage band to the roster of labels like Universal Republic and Rounder enter data once and spread it across multiple platforms from MySpace to concert databases. But understanding that they've solved only one piece of ...