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How a Little Hungarian Music Startup Scored $1.7 Million...
Digital music is technically a global industry, yet big funding often goes to companies in major hubs like Silicon Valley, New York,or Los Angeles. But Hungary? That's right: the latest funding round was actually grabbed by the Budapest-based 3G Multimedia, a backend, white label startup that specializes in streaming music services. The $1.7 million Series A, ...
Hitlantis - Discover New Music at the Fringes
Another day, another music discovery tool. Hitlantis is a Helsinki-based startup that's striving to make finding music more visual. Bands placed at the center of the visualization are at the center while obscure acts reside at the fringes. Color signifies genre. Each dot on the heat map represents a specific artist. Bands can secure placement on the ...
It's Not Free - Last.FM to Charge for Mobile App
Starting February 15, Last.fm's mobile app will be paid-only. Their web radio service will remain free in the US, UK, and Germany. Why now? “On the Last.fm website an ad-supported, free-to-listeners model is what supports our online radio services in the US, UK and Germany," says Mathew Hawn. "In other markets and on emerging mobile and home entertainment ...
Amazon Marketed #superbowl Songs Via Twitter
iTunes may dominate the digital music market, but time and time again Amazon has proven that they're willing to hustle. The Super Bowl is a perfect example of this and the company's efforts deserve praise. For every song that aired in a commercial, Amazon MP3 tweeted links to where budding fans could purchase the tracks. It's ...
Verve Music Group Launches "Cupid Breaker" Online Game
"Break Hearts and Get Free Music" is the tagline for Cupid Breaker (www.cupidbreaker.com), a new free online game launched February 4th from music label Verve just in time for Valentine's Day. In the tradition of enormously popular online games such as Angry Birds, users play Cupid and shoot arrows at flying hearts. The final point score ...
The Balls on Grooveshark: Full-Track Embedding Now Live...
Is it kosher to allow anyone to embed full-length song streams into their site? That is, the full-length song streams of major label artists, independent artists, and any other artist for that matter? We've heard that labels have been hesitant to hand out this right—for obvious reasons—though Grooveshark is marching forward with this very cool feature. ...
Even Software is Now More Popular Than Pirated Music Online - And Porn is Downloaded the Most
I still remember the glory days. Somehow, Audiogalaxy became installed on our home computer. My brother must have done it. In one night, I could download twelve to fourteen songs—almost an entire album! We had 28k dial-up Internet. The kind that when you connected, it tied up the phone line and made horrible sounds. I lived on ...
Cash Music's "Seed" is Creating Free Digital Tools for Musicians and You Can Help
What Wordpress did for bloggers, non-profit CASH Music hopes to do for musicians. They've been creating free open source digital tools for for several years, and now they are reaching out to artists and the industry to help complete their most ambitious project yet, Seed. Details, A Video Intro & How You Can Contribute: Seed is ...
Make It Count - 1 out of 4 Apps Are Used Only Once
More and more, artists are looking to release apps to distribute extra content and connect with their fans. Companies like Mobile Roadie and SoundAround provide artists with great solutions to create apps, but do fans even use them? According to a new study released by Localytics, 26% of all apps are only used once after installation. That's ...
Bamboozle Rewards Loyal, Social-Media Savvy Fans
The annual three-day music extravaganza that is Bamboozle doesn't kick off until April 29, but in the meantime, the festival is striving to keep their biggest fans engaged. They have now launched their fan appreciation program called BoozleTwist. The program, powered by CrowdTwist, allows fans to earn points for online promotional activities like following Bamboozle on ...
