Results for "HypeBot"

Merlin Completes Indie Deal with Catch Media's Play Anywhere

March 18, 2009

Indie Global rights agency Merlin has completed a deal with Catch Media's Play Anywhere portable music service. Catch also has deals with Universal and WMG and is in talks with the other two majors. Play Anywhere, which was one of the winners of the 2009 Music Ally/MidemNet New Business Showcase, puts personal music and video collections ...

The Personalized Music Experience: The Future

March 18, 2009

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor From what we have already seen over the last two years, the future of The Personalized Music Experienceimmediately extends itself into the possibility of an ongoing transformation. Going from a single purpose medium into a universal access point that facilitates simple access to whatever we want whenever we want. It perfectly integrates ...

Prince Goes Direct to Fans

March 18, 2009

Prince will once again be selling direct to his fans with a new subscription site lotusflow3r. The current placeholder site is scheduled to go live March 24th according to Newsweek. For $77 fans will get downloads of the new three albums that will be available in as CD's from Target on March 29th, as well as, ...

iMeem's CEO on Monetizing Social Networks

March 18, 2009

Twitter Adds New Search and Trends Tools Plus a Hypebot Twitter Contest

March 12, 2009

Twitter has begun adding new tools that music marketers should find useful to some user profiles and is expected to roll them out system wide soon. A search box allows you to track recent activity on the hugely popular mobile social networker. Type in a band name and see what the latest tweets are saying about ...

Universal Wins Eminem Royalty Lawsuit

March 8, 2009

An LA jury rejected claims by former Eminem producers FBT Productions that Universal owed $1.47 million in underpaid digital royalties. At stake was whether or not royalties from sales at digital stores like iTunes should be calculated as CD sales or at the much higher licence rate because there was no physical product manufactured. A win ...

Jango Offers Indie Artists Pay for Airplay

March 7, 2009

Payola. Pay-to play. Ugly terms from a different era or a new way to get exposure and monetize internet broadcasting? Jango, a US based music site with 6 million monthly listeners, has decided to find out. For $30 for 1,000 plays, indie artists get airplay to fans of setablished artists of their ...

Interview: Jed Carlson of Reverbnation (Part Three)

March 7, 2009

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor Continuation of interview with Jed Carlson, COO of ReverbNation. Q: Why is it important for artists to have a strategy that is unique to them, but still open to interpretation? Jed Carlson: The pace of change continues to accelerate. As a result, Artists need to have a strategy based ...

Daily D.I.Y. - Your 10,000 Hours

March 5, 2009

Malcolm Gladwell's latest book Outliers: The Story of Success outlines his belief that success only comes to those willing to practice their craft for more than 10,000 hours.  From The Beatles to Bill Gates, Gladwell provides examples which show that after a certain level of talent or intelligence has provided the opportunity, 10,000 hours of concentrated ...

Bandcamp Exits Beta with Bit of a Bang

March 5, 2009

Bandcamp, a (for the moment) free service that empowers artists to sell their music direct to fans and spread it across the net, has exited beta with a number of new features. Four sizes of embedded players. You can customize the background and font colors. Faster site loading and downloads The ability to generate download codes ...