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Apple, Depeche Mode Launch New 'iTunes Pass'
The 1980s Britpop band Depeche Mode has teamed with Apple to launch the first iTunes Pass, a sort of one-time subscription service to content that the band has and will create. Although the blogosphere is wondering whether Apple is using the concept of the iTunes Pass to evolve into an optional subscription model, the Pass seems ...
A Conversation with the Hype Machine's Anthony Volodkin
GUEST POST: Australian based digital strategist Nick Crocker sat down for Hypebot with The Hype Machine's Anthony Volodkin. For music lovers, Hype Machine is an essential filter. With increasing ad-revenue and affiliate sales, the site's founder Anthony Volodkin has assembled a small team to manage the expanding Hype Machine community. Volodkin has been working on Hype ...
Daily D.I.Y. - Take Your Promo Old School
As they should, every artist and label has an email list, blog and social networking pages. But the assault of online information is overwhelming and it's harder and harder to get your message heard above the chatter. In addition to your online activities, why not also use some old school methods to reach your fans. For ...
Beauty Affects Men's and Women's Brains Differently
Beauty is famously in the eye of the beholder; but it's also in the beholder's brain, and may work differently in the brains of men and women. In men, images they consider to be beautiful appear to activate brain regions responsible for locating objects in absolute terms — x- and y-coordinates on a grid. Images considered ...
Infringement Case Against McCain Advances
John McCain says he was a puppet for the Republican National Committee and therefore should not be held accountable for a presidential campaign commercial that used the popular song “Running on Empty" by Jackson Browne without permission. But the Los Angeles federal judge presiding over the copyright- infringement case was not buying it. The judge refused ...
'Rotten Tomatoes' Web Site Moves to TV
"You get your friends around and it's fun to trash the hell out of a movie," Brett Erlich begins. “But it's also fun to disagree with people. A lot of people loved Benjamin Button. I, for one, wanted to kill myself at many points during that film. If it was four hours, instead of three hours ...
Have Licensed Music Services Flunked Out?
College campuses were once a prime spawning ground for new digital music services. Those days appear to be over. Closing the book on the role of campuses as digital music laboratories is the recent demise of Ruckus—an ad-supported music download service that was available for free to students at 200 universities through direct content deals, as ...
AOL Adds 'Lifestreaming' to Bebo, Enters Classifieds
AOL on Monday enhanced both its classifieds offerings as well as Bebo, its social networking service. AOL added a “lifestreaming" feature to the latter, allowing a user to post stream-of-consciousness photos and other comments. The move is an attempt to bolster the popularity of social network Bebo, which the company picked up in March 2008 for ...
Teens Prefer Music to Sex and Have No Intention of Paying for It
Forget free love. Today's teens are far more interested in free music. A new survey of 1000 UK youth showed that 70% of 16-19 year olds would rather go without sex than music for a week. Broaden the age group to 16-24 and the go without sex group only falls to 60%. 61% of the same ...
Daily D.I.Y. - Local and Regional Sponsorship
Ever wonder how that new indie buzz band got a sponsorship from Red Bull? Forget about it. They had a label, agent or sponsorship guru hook them up, and that's unlikely to happen to your project. But that doesn't mean that sponsorship is out of reach for you; even if your tour consists of your hometown ...
