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Music and the Creative Class: How Music Can Transform America's Cities
Part 2 (Read Part 1 Here) When Richard Florida wrote The Rise of the Creative Class in 2005 music was barely a blip on the social economist's radar. Now Florida and his colleagues are beginning to recognize music and the businesses and professionals that follow and service it as “fruit fly" industries - early indicators of ...
Walmart Shutting Down DRM Download Servers
Walmart.com's music download store went DRM free in February of 2008; and now the retail giant is telling customers that they'll no longer support the DRM laden downloads that they sold them prior to the transition. According to an email sent to customers, on October 9th the company will shut its servers that “that supports protected ...
Music and the Creative Class: A Fruit Fly Industry
(Part 1) Richard Florida and his 2005 bestseller The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life gave voice to a movement to revitalize cities by attracting and nurturing the “creative class" - a socioeconomic group of 40 million that makes up 30% of the US workforce. There is ...
Happy 10th Anniversary Napster!
10 years ago today, Napster was born in Sean Fanning's Northeastern University dorm room. Whatever side of the debate you're on, one can't deny that Napster changed the music industry forever. “It was something that came to me as a result of seeing an sort of an unmet need and the passion people had for being ...
Audiolife Adds Warehousing to on-Demand Indie Artist Services
Keeping costs down as you're growing a business is crucial whether your a tech start up or a rock band; and in recent months, Audiolife has been building an infrastructure to help D.I.Y. and indie artists do just that. The company offers a platform that allows artists to create CDs, t-shirts and other merchandise on-demand with ...
Band Rewards Fans for Burning Their CD and Giving It Away
It's no secret that there is promotional power in giving away music, but just slapping a FREE banner on a web site doesn't cut it anymore. Free is everywhere. But what if the free music was on a CD given fan to fan with no strings attached? That could get pretty expensive...unless the fans do it ...
A Quick Look at the New $5 Napster
What Do You Think Of The New Napster? I've spent some time on the new Napster service over the last few days, and aside from a less than intuitive interface, I can't find much to dislike. At just $5 a month for unlimited streaming of a deep catalog along with 5 mp3's monthly, the service is ...
Saynow Connects Artists to Fans Via Voice Mail and Text Messages
Our Call Katy Perry Now post last week led us to service provider SayNow. This free service connects bands with fans via voice mail and text messages. Rapper Soulja Boy regularly connects with 2 million opt-in fans via SayNow. Fans get voice or text messages broadcast from participating artists and can call in to hear a ...
A Simple Strategy to Increase Your Band's Twitter Followers
The graph below highlights a simple way to get Twitter Followers - start Following! This graph, for a particular artist we work with, vividly illustrates the effect of adding Followings - people followed tend to reciprocate. The obvious criticism of this approach is what is the value of the Followers? However, this is balanced by the ...
Mobile Music $'s to Hit $5.5b by 2013, but Ad-Supported Could See Shortfalls
Despite the global recession, revenues from streamed mobile music services and full-track downloads are expected to exhibit strong growth over the next 5 years, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Combined revenues from these services are expected to more than double from $2.5 billion in 2009 to nearly $5.5 billion in 2013. ...
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