Results for "HypeBot"

Pandora's Westergren Responds to Artist Airplay Submission Controversy

July 6, 2009

Yesterday's story that Pandora was requiring that all music considered for airplay must also be available for sale as a physical CD on Amazon drew some strong comments from Hypebot readers. An online poll showed that for 40%, the practice tainted their view of Pandora and another 14% claimed they would never use the service again. ...

When the Artist and Fan Relationship Goes Bad

July 6, 2009

Overloaded with Data? Trendrr Launches Pro

June 30, 2009

A First Look & How It Compares Information and trends spread across the global net with lightening speed. Bloggers and fans love a show, hate a single, publish a photo, share an impression. Each of these “events", whether they are on the rise or decline and where they are coming from all come together to create ...

The Music Industry, Michael Jackson and the Zombieconomy

June 30, 2009

Consultant and big thinker Umair Haque took a look at some of the dollar figures being thrown around in the wake of Michael Jackson's death including reports that sales of his recordings have “generated more than $300 million in royalties...since the early 1980's". Haque did little math and asked: “If the world's biggest pop star ...

Derek Sivers: "Make Your Own Success First"

June 30, 2009

"You have to make your own success first, before you ask the industry for help. You have to show that you're going to be successful with-or-without their help. Show that you have momentum, and if they want to accelerate it or amplify it they can, but it will cost them to ride your coat-tails." “If ...

The Michael Jackson Effect: An Unprecedented Spike in Sales

June 30, 2009

Once again new media trumped old with AOL's TMZ breaking the Michael Jackson story an hour before other news and gossip gatherers. But in addition to the predictable spike in online interest, Friday's death also led to an ...

Friendfeed Adds Music File Sharing

June 27, 2009

How will the RIAA react to this one? FriendFeed, the popular site that enables discovery and discussion of “interesting stuff your friends find on the web", has added the ability to share any file, including music, by attaching it to a FriendFeed post. To share files on friendfeed.com, click the “Files" link underneath ...

Post Music to Twitter Using Soundcloud

June 27, 2009

The guest post is by Dave Haynes, OpenMusicMedia founder and UK manager for SoundCloud. You can also follow him on Twitter @haynes_dave. There have been a number of services crop up recently to allow you to post music to Twitter. But did you know there's three different ways to do exactly the ...

The Kind of Music Startups One Venture Capitalist Would Like to Fund

June 26, 2009

And His Unusual Way Of Turning Them Into Businesses Y Combinator a revolutionary venture firm that speciializes in funding early stage startups. 40 or so young entrepreneurs spend months together boot camp style developing their ideas into businesses. In addition to support from each other, they are surrounded by advisers and visited by experts who help ...

Study: Twitter Users Want to Discover and Will (Gasp!) Actually Pay for Music

June 26, 2009

According to a new NPD Group study, Twitter users are much more likely to be interested in discovering and engaging with music than the average internet user. And in some good news for the music industry, they are also far more willing to pay for it. According to NPD's consumer tracking, 33% of Twitter users reported ...