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What Makes Facebook Fan Pages so Succesful: Lessons from Linkin Park and the Major Brands
Almost overnight, Facebook Pages have become one of the most powerful tools in the music marketing toolkit. But beyond the massive number of eyeballs that Facebook offers, why are Fan Pages so powerful? During a MIDEM session last week with Rachel Masters of Red Magnet Media, Aaron Ray of management and new media firm The Collective ...
Facebook's Reverbnation Block Was Just "A Mistake", but Serves as Reminder of Larger Issue
Yesterday, ReverbNation told its tens of thousands of active artist users that Facebook had disabled RN links on their site. “This was a mistake in one of our automated systems for preventing spam," a Facebook spokesperson told Hypebot and by late in the day, the problem had been fixed. But the incident serves as a reminder ...
Sonicbids Adds Its Own Facebook Profile Builder Plus a Video Tour
RootMusic is getting kudos for its program that creates great looking Facebook Profiles and ReverbNation has a popular tool that makes it even easier by pulling from assets already stored in its system. Now Sonicbids has added a Profile builder with a feature that encourages fans to “Like" an artist: As you might expect, Sonicbids pulls ...
#Midem Hot Topics: The Cloud, Music Tech and the One That Just Won't Go Away... Control
I just got back from Midem 2011 and will post some very informative presentations in the coming days. While there were no game changing announcements, music in the cloud—streaming, lockers, mobile—was on everyone's lips. It's clearly what fans want and the assembled companies appeared intent on giving it to them. Sadly, however, the debate still continues over ...
"BitTorrent" Censored from Google
Early in December, Google vowed to distance itself from piracy. To do so, the company agreed that it would remove terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in their Autocomplete and Instant services. Google has since rolled this questionable feature. Now terms like BitTorrent, uTorrent, and RapidShare are filtered out. However, terms like BitComet and Vuze ...
Exclusive: Sonicbids Now Making a Serious Move into Facebook...
Updated, 11:45 am PCT: Digital Music News readers can use promo code DMN2011 to get a 30-day free trial. So who's the latest to dive into Facebook? That would be Sonicbids, a company that is about to announce a serious expansion into the network. This is an involved artist profile builder that further broadens the Sonicbids ...
Musikki - Your New Music Search Engine
Just when you thought that you didn't need another search engine, a couple of folks have gone through the trouble of creating one. Musikki is a music search engine that aggregates all of the info on your favorite band and artists in one place. It's a little slow-going at first, but once you've typed in an ...
mySpoonful - Music Discovery for Busy Bodies
There's a zillion music blogs out there. Hype Machine aggregates the best of them. Even if you only follow a few, there's tons of info to sort through. There's another zillion sites that champion themselves as music discovery tools, but good luck finding a one that can suggest a song that feels spontaneous and alive. It ...
Real Men Launch Paid-Only Apps...
The iPhone race was sewn up years ago by the likes of Pandora, Tapulous, and Shazam. And tens of thousands of apps later, it's incredibly difficult to gain meaningful mindshare. But the iPad remains a virgin platform, at least for music, and a fantastic place for experiments on the paid side. Look no further than SoundHound, ...
Fanity - It's Google Alerts on Crack - For Music
Fanity, a brand-new music startup, is both awesome and scary. On one hand, the company has put together a very clean and comprehensive way for fans to track their favorite artists. On the other, it almost does too good of a job at it. If you're a Katy Perry fan, which I'm sure most of you ...
