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Fancorps Takes over Contest to Prove the Value of Street Teams
A constant question in the new era of music marketing is, “What actually works?". Digital street team enabler Fancorps set out to offer some proof by asking members of four of its band street teams to vote for their favorite artists in the 2009 Alternative Press Readers Chart. The result? Teams using the Fancorps platform (Forever ...
MyMajorCompany Gets $4.1 Million for Fan Funded Releases
MyMajorCompany, which like Sellaband and others empowers fans to finance recordings for artists they like, has received a $4.1 million investment from Stephane Courbit, a former Endemol France executive in return for a 49% stake in the company. The funds will be used to expand the French based service into the UK. Former EMI CEP Alain ...
MySpace Pushes Beyond Browser to TV
MySpace has launched a widget designed on the new Widget Channel TV application framework being co-developed by Intel and Yahoo!. The MySpace Widget for TV allows users to interact with MySpace directly from their TV extending the MySpace experience beyond the browser and making the traditional TV experience more social. Other social networks will certainly develop ...
Author John King on Understanding Your Tribe
In Part 1 of my interview with John King, co-author of Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, he gave us a brief explanation of how he thought the tribal stages of an organization could help us understand the occurrences of tribalism within an artist's fan base. Like many of you, the brevity ...
Universal Cuts Custom Ringtone Deal with ID Interactive's Urtone
UPDATED: Ringtone sales are in a slump and labels are scrambling to new ways to revive them. Many of the initiatives attempt to boost revenues by cutting out the middle man and aiming for direct sales. That includes the new deal between Universal Music Group and ID Interactive to provide a custom-ringtone solution for its labels. ...
Tribal Leadership Interview Part 2: Building a Tribe
Part 2 of Kyle Bylin's interview with John King. the author of Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization. (read part 1 here) Tomorrow author John King lays out his own thoughts on the various stages of fans and the bands themselves. Bylin: Throughout the music industry when we look for true ...
Universal vs. Veoh: Score 1 for Music 2.0
Over the holidays Universal Music Group lost a major lawsuit to online video sharing site Veoh. Much like the many lawsuits flying around between the major labels and music 2.0 companies that enable fans to upload content, Universal sought to make Veoh responsible for any copyright violations the fan may have incurred - like the time ...
iTunes to Expand DRM Free and Variable Pricing According to Report
IT'S OFFICIAL: SEE UPDATE HERE. As soon as today at Macworld, Apple will announce that iTunes is expanding its DRM offering to include all of the major labels and will add variable pricing according to cNet. Over the aor downloads are also part of the deals which were concluded last week. Leaked details appear to match ...
It's Official! Apple's iTunes Drops DRM, Adds Variable Pricing
UPDATED: From today's Macworld address: Three pricing tiers: $0.99 cents, $0.69 cents, and $1.29. “Depending on how the music labels offer music, Apple will price accordingly." Starts n April. Most albums will still be priced at $9.99. iTunes Plus: Plays on as many computers as you own. Now at 256 kbps AAC encoding Free 1 click ...
New iTunes is DRM Free but It's Still Restricted
As Ben Drury of UK download provider 7Digital said in statement today: “Downloads from iTunes are still in the AAC file format regardless of whether they are DRM-free." 7digital, Amazon, Napster, Zune, Rhapsody and all other DRM free retialers sell all downloads in the universal MP3 format which means they work on any iPod, any brand ...
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