Category Archives: Music Marketing
Music streamer Spotify to expand into Asia, Latam, North Europe
Written for and appeared at: http://news.yahoo.com/music-streamer-spotify-expand-asia-latam-north-europe-111322063.html Reuters/Reuters – Daniel Ek, CEO & Co-Founder of Spotify, addresses attendees during the International CTIA WIRELESS Conference & Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana May 9, 2012. REUTERS/Sean Gardner STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Music streaming web … Continue reading
Business Matters: Why Did Bjork’s Kickstarter Project Fail?
First Written ForBillboard Magazine By Glenn Peoples, Nashville See Original Article Here: http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/1538605/business-matters-why-did-bjorks-kickstarter-project-fail Internationally famous Icelandic artist Bjork may have been the most high-profile musician to undertake a project on Kickstarter, the platform that allows artists to raise money from fans for their … Continue reading
Music Industry Grows First Time in a Decade on Digital Adele
Originally written by Kristen Schweizer and appeared on: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-26/digital-music-with-adele-helps-record-industry-return-to-growth.html The worldwide recorded music industry’s revenue grew 0.3 percent to $16.5 billion last year, the first increase in more than decade, as more people downloaded music and used online streaming sites. Adele’s … Continue reading
Introducing Muvote.com
Originally written for Mc2N.com Posted here : http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=161714 Something new is bubbling up from the depths of the Internet. Music critics are calling it, “Something to do.” Music fans are excited about the fate of bands being in their hands. … Continue reading
When A Band Should Change Their Name
Originally Posted by Daniel Kobale and posted on:http://www.alivemusicstudios.org/cms/when-a-band-should-change-their-name/ Hopefully this is something you never have to deal with, but it does happen: Bands change their names. We don’t always know why, but usually there is a lot of discussions, sometimes … Continue reading
7 Lessons From The Beatles’ Biggest Failure
Originally appeared on Inc.com Written By: John Greathouse and found at: http://www.inc.com/john-greathouse/7-lessons-from-the-beatles -biggest-failure.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_ campaign=Feed%3A+inc%2Fheadlines+%28Inc.com+Headlines%29 What the Beatles’ early failures can teach you about staffing, timing, market research, and product development. The words “failure” and “the Beatles” seldom appear in the … Continue reading
Building the $100 Billion Dollar Music Business
Originally written by Tom Silverman Original post posted and later removed from Billboard.com but article revisited here: http://www.famewiz.com/building-the-100-billion-dollar-music-business/ In this guest post, New Music Seminar/Tommy Boy Entertainment founder Tom Silverman describes how we can grow the music business into one … Continue reading
Fred Wilson On Investing In Music Start-Ups, Changing Dynamic Between Labels and Artists, Running UMG (Video)
Written by Billboard Staff and first seen at this link: http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/digital-and-mobile/fred-wilson-on-investing-in-music-start-1008029442.story Investor Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) loves music but he’s still “relatively cautious” about investing in it, he said during his keynote Q&A at Billboard’s FutureSound Conference with Billboard Editorial director … Continue reading
Rumblefish And Audible Magic Partner To Make It Easier For Social Video Networks To Monetize Videos With Music Soundtracks
First written for and published here: http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=159709 Rumblefish, the leading provider of soundtracks for online social video, and Audible Magic, the leading provider of automated content recognition (ACR) solutions, announced the two companies have joined forces to offer the first … Continue reading
Who Picks the Songs You Hear At the Mall?
Who Picks the Songs You Hear At the Mall? Originally written by ANDREW MATSON and posted at: http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/11/28/165947927/who-picks-the-music-you-hear-at-the-mall In an episode from the fifth season of Mad Men the show’s main character, advertising executive Don Draper, is asked by his client, the … Continue reading
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