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10 Important Question To Ask BEFORE Hiring A Music PR Agency
While bands or artists may be inclined to jump ahead to hiring a PR company in hopes of having their career made, they are often disappointed by the results. Here we look at ten essential questions to ask yourself before making the decision to have a PR agency take you on. Guest post by Maddy Raven of ...
Musician's Guide To Facebook Live
Facebook Live has become an excellent way for artists to connect with fans via impromptu video sessions. Here Chris Robley details how artists can take their Facebook Live presence up a notch, with minimal tools tools needed. Re-post from CD Baby's DIY Musician blog, by Chris Robley Here’s the thing about Facebook Live: you can go live with nothing more ...
Remembering John Perry Barlow - Grateful Dead Lyricist, Tech Futurist
It's inadequate to call John Perry Barlow a product of the 1960's since he did so much to help shape it and the decades that followed. If being a lyricist for the Grateful Dead weren't enough, his “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace", published 22 years ago this week, and his work as a founding member of ...
Tech, Data, Music and Unintended Consequences
In this piece, Bim Ditson looks at the collision of the life a musician with the harsh realities of capitalism, the consolidation of power online, and the dangers of life on the road. Guest post by Bim Ditson from CASH Music I was asked to write about the consolidation of power online. After a number of ...
YouTube Launches Official Artist Channels
For a long time official artist channels were found only on label-owned Vevo, but all that is about to change, much to the delight of Google-owned YouTube, which will now allows artists to upgrade their channels to “official" artist channels. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Up until now, official artists video channels were ...
Top 9 Exciting Gear Releases From NAMM 2018
The annual National Association of Music Merchants (or NAMM) Trade Show tends to evoke a good amount of excitement among music industry gear heads, and 2018 was no exception. Here we look at nine of the most notable such releases from this year's show. Guest post by Rory Seydel of Landr Every year the gear announcements ...
Shutting File Sharing Sites Could Harm Artists, Industry [STUDY]
While the music industry has long flailed against online copyright infringement in sometimes harmful and often ineffective ways, a new study is out suggesting that shutting down the file sharing sites which are so often havens for this type of infringement would hurt new artists and the industry as a whole. Guest post by Timothy Geigner ...
Create, Add To Playlists With Your Voice On Amazon Music
Amazon Music users can now tell Alexa to create a new playlist or add a song to an existing playlist with just their voice. While listening to Amazon Music on an Alexa-enabled device users can now say: “Alexa, add this song to my playlist” “Alexa, add this to my playlist” “Alexa, add this to my ‘Studying’ ...
6 Essential YouTube Metrics Everyone Needs To Watch
Besides acting as a platform from which to showcase your content and allow your fans to access your brand, YouTube also has important analytics tools that offer artists important feedback on how viewers are reacting to the content they post. Here we look at six such metrics. Guest post by Allison Johnelle Boron of Soundfly's Flypaper Your YouTube channel serves ...
