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FanDistro: Affiliate Marketing for Indie Musicians
Startup FanDistro hopes to bring affiliate marketing to indie musicians with a system that encourages fans to sell their favorite band's music and divides the funds via PayPal 60% to the artist, 20% to the fan (or blogger) and 20% to the company. That would leave artist income similar to selling on iTunes, but PayPal charges ...
News Corp COO Carey Says Myspace Makeover Makes It Easier to Sell
News Corp seemed more ready than ever to divest itself of Myspace in a Monday interview with the parent company's COO Chase Carey. “I'm not going to break down (the number of) quarters," he said. “It's not years ... We need to deal with this with urgency." He praised the recent makeover saying that made the ...
German "Spotify Clone" Pairs with Social Network
Amidst the Spotify drama, its German clone Simfy has collaborated with the country's largest social network. Now the 16M users on StudiVZ will gain access to the free, ad-supported desktop app. What if Spotify partnered with Facebook? The music service is also launching a new student price point of 6.99 for its premium edition. Since Spotify ...
Diaspora, Privacy-Aware Facebook Rival Goes Beta
Chances are you don't need another social network to join. You're already doing enough tweeting and status updating and not doing nearly enough working and creating the way it is. However, if you remember the great threat of a mass exodus from Facebook several months back. Then, you likely recall talk of an open-source, decentralized network ...
Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will "Reform" Music, Film and TV Within 5 Years
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used last week's Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco to share his most sweeping vision yet of how Facebook will fundamentally change the music, film, TV and media industries within the next five years. Zuckerberg believes strongly that insurgent entrepreneurs will “reform" the music, film, TV, news, e-commerce and perhaps many other ...
Track and Fields: New Remix and Music Licensing Site
Track and Fields, a Berlin-based remix and licensing opportunity site, offers a number of tools for musicians and producers alike. They provide pre-cleared samples and stems to use; referrals for sync and production opportunities; catalogued submissions for music supervisors; and collaboration opportunities. Thus far, the company has attracted participation in remix contests, among other efforts, from ...
The Importance of Great Website Visuals
You've heard it before. Keep fans on your site. Visuals are important. The first is straightforward. Don't bring fans to your site and send them to Myspace. Your site is yours, while Myspace is not. Likewise, if fans find you on Myspace, give them a reason to visit your site. That way, you can take ownership ...
Bruce Warila: Can Computers Really Analyze Songs for Hit Potential?
(Updated) This guest post comes from consultant and entrepreneur Bruce Warila. Bruce has studied the technologies and services that measure a song's hit potential. In response to the ASCAP and HITLAB announcement that basically endorses the use of algorithms to analyze the hit potential of songs, I thought I would weigh in on the subject. Proceed ...
Find Paid Artist Opportunities Through Indaba Music
Indaba Music has launched its Opportunities Marketplace. With this dedicated platform, they aim to provide musicians with easy, quick access to paying gigs. For musicians, brands, and marketers, among others, this creates a go-to place for posting everything from simple wanted ads to full-blown sponsored competitions that feature custom voting and widgets. At present, Indaba Music ...
There's No Long Tail on We7; Surprised or Not?
This is part two of my interview segment with Steve Purdham, who is the CEO of we7, an on-demand music streaming and radio service based out of the UK. In this section, Purdham talks about the nonexistence of the long tail on his service, the challenge of encouraging music activity over passivity, and why we shouldn't ...
