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Yahoo Gets More Social with Twitter, Youtube
As part of the Yahoo Open Strategy, the company today announced update connections to its Yahoo Updates feature, offering activity updates with Twitter, YouTube, and more. While the debate over the social graph and how to monetize it continues among Facebook and Google watchers, Yahoo has made a more conscious effort at being more social. The ...
5 Ways the Cellphone Will Change How You Listen to Music
The portable music revolution has only been with us for a few years, but we may already be on the cusp of the another paradigm shift: With smartphones becoming commoditized -- and with so many excellent music apps being designed for them -- it's becoming viable to leave your MP3 player at home and tune into ...
eMusic Data Supports Long Tail
The Long Tail theory has come under heavy fire recently. But eMusic says the critics are wrong and that 75% its indie-only 5 million track catalog sold at least once during 2008. “eMusic is the Long Tail," said Madeleine Milne, eMusic Managing Director, Europe. The theory that the internet enables businesses to sell a large selection ...
Thumbplay to Expand Indie Mobile Services
Mobile content provider Thumbplay is adding to the toolkit that it offers indie artists and labels. In the coming month the company tells Hypebot that it will: launch a new artist widget platform to drives mobile downloads enable artists to upload and sell MP3s and videos provide tools for labels and managers to control multiple ...
Circuit City Goes out of Business
Circuit City to close 567 remaining US stores Bankrupt Circuit City Stores Inc., unable to work out a sale of the company, said Friday it will go out of business - closing its 567 U.S. stores and cutting 30,000 jobs. The nation's second-biggest consumer electronics retailer is the latest casualty of an unprecedented pullback ...
Sell Your Own Ringtones
In addition to downloads its now easy for any band to sell ringtones created from their songs. Most services require no up front costs or long term commitments. You may be tempted to dismiss ringtones as pointless for your style of music. But for hard core fans, its another way to show their support; and every ...
5 More Indies Take Myspace Music Deal
Indie heavyweights Nettwerk, INgrooves, IRIS Distribution, RoyaltyShare and Wind-up have all signed deals to have their music featured and sold on MySpace Music. Indie aggregators The Orchard and IODA signed on several months ago. Today's announcement leaves Merlin and its supporters including Koch and Beggars as the last large indie holdouts. When MySpace Music launched late ...
Will Ferrell's 'Funny or Die' Site Branches Out
Politics might make for strange bedfellows, but the digital entertainment business is capable of pairing some unusual bunkmates in its own right. Just look at the newest tenant at budding Internet empire Or Die Networks, home to Funny Or Die, Will Ferrell's comedy dot-com. The company is branching out into new fields, each with celebrity poster ...
MySpace Music Adds New Labels
MySpace Music has added several record labels to its roster, including Nettwerk Music Group, INgrooves, IRIS Distribution, and RoyaltyShare. MySpace will also have access to the Wind-up Records music catalog through its existing deal with Sony Music Entertainment. Sony has a deal to delivers digital content from Wind-up across multiple platforms. The deal will add several ...
Matador's Patrick Amory Shares "What is Working?"
In conjunction with US. independent music trade group A2IM (American Association Of Independent Music), Hypebot has been asking indie professionals: In this fractured media landscape, what is working? What outlets and tools are helping your artists build an audience? Today Patrick Amory of seminal indie label Matador (Belle & Sebastian, Cat Power, Chavez, Pavement) shares the ...
