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Apple's
acquisition of Swell, the developer of a podcast
streaming app, is another bet on the value of
personalized content.
The
Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies
has taken Ford, General Motors and two
technology companies to court over unpaid
royalties related to their in-vehicle hard
drives.
10
ways to ruin a song
As
Spinal Tap reminds us, it’s a fine line
between stupid and clever. This is particularly true
in the world of popular music, where one bad move
can kill an otherwise great tune. Here’s
a list of ways to sabotage your next song
during the writing or recording process.
Global
Indie Rights Body Merlin Lowers Fee for Members
Merlin,
the global rights agency for the indie label sector,
has announced it is lowering the administration fees
it charges for its services.
A
Department of Justice office told a House Judiciary
hearing Thursday he supports a felony penalty for
illegal streaming.
Can
This Company Save Streaming And The Music Industry?
Major
labels are finding creative ways to screw their artists out
of any streaming money that comes in. The labels strike
deals with streaming services that keep streaming rates low
across the board, while the labels receive massive, upfront
advances and equity in the company.
5
Solid Reasons to Use Email Newsletters
For
bands that have been around since MySpace was still a thing,
remember all those fans you had? Well, MySpace owned their
data, not you. If you didn’t get them signed-up to your
mailing list, chances are you lost contact with many of them
when you had to start over on Facebook.
6
Things You Need To Know Every Musician Hates To Do
This
is not fun for us. We don’t like it any more than you do
that the last text in our correspondence was us promoting
our last show and now it’s time tell you about tonight’s
show. We don’t like going around town distributing posters
and flyers. We don’t like Facebooking and Tweeting
incessantly about our upcoming show or new album.
Pandora
Media topped 5 billion listener hours for the first
time during the second quarter of 2014, while
beating its own revenue expectations but posting a
wider loss than the same period last year.
Google
“Laughing” at $10 Billion Spotify Pricetag, Sources Say
Yes,
Google is kicking the tires on Spotify. But
they’re outright ‘laughing’ at a price tag of $10
billion, which is what both investors and major
labels are hoping to draw. “[Google might] buy it
for a few billion, max.,” a source close to the on-again,
off-again discussions told Digital Music News this morning.
Your Online Community
Your station has a website. Your morning show has a Facebook page.
Your company even has its own web design team and a separate "digital media" department.
Woooo hooooo! Does your station do anything, anything at all, to encourage a real community online?Is there a way for your listeners to engage with each other on your site?
Facebook
Introduces 'Save' Feature
Facebook
has introduced a new feature enabling users to save
posts, links and, yes, the music that comes up in
their newsfeed.
Copyright
Alert System to Launch in U.K., Warning Potential Infringers
People
in Great Britain suspected of pirating copyrighted
material online will soon be getting a light slap on
the wrist.
Mark
Cuban’s Soundwave Wants to be “The Instagram of Music”
Soundwave
has actually been around for a year, but has just released a
complete redesign on iOS and Android. What sets this app
apart is the ability to automatically aggregate everything
you listen to, like Last.fm does. It can track music
played from the device’s library, as well as music
streamed in apps like YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud, Pandora,
Rdio, 8tracks, and Deezer.
The
Google Exec Who Said ‘You Cannot Devalue Music’ Is Now
Trying to Revalue Music
Late
last year, Google Play Music All Access executive Tim
Quirk declared that devaluing music was absolutely impossible.
“I meant what I said very literally,” Quirk told
an audience at the Future of Music Summit. Now, nine months
later and out of Google, Quirk is launching Freeform
Development, a startup that will help artists earn
more money first by gaining exposure, then by pushing fans
to unlock content (ie, ‘gamification’).
Artists
have been asking Facebook why they have to pay to reach
their existing fan base. Now, Facebook is giving artists a
new set of tools to interact with their fans, if you’re
famous enough to have a verified page.
How
To Reach The Best Music Business Contacts. Period.
Imagine
that you no longer feel like you’re sitting and waiting
for something to happen. You’ve invested time, energy, and
probably a good amount of cash into your music but you
can’t help but feel like you need to do something to get
noticed. Why aren’t more of the right people finding you?
Why does every time you sit down to do some work end with
clicking away mindlessly on the next BuzzFeed list?
TuneCore
Pays Out $33.2 Million to Artists in Second Quarter
TuneCore
announced Wednesday it paid out $33.2 million in
digital music royalties in the second quarter, up
18.4% from the same period in 2013 but down from
$34.1 million in the first quarter.
Breaking:
Over 600 Indie Labels Sign the Fair Digital Deals
Declaration
The
Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) has launched a Fair
Digital Deals Declaration. WIN has been heading the battle
against YouTube’s streaming service contract for indies
Our
Best Bet for Screwing Up Copyright Reform? More Government
Intervention
By David Israelite -- A recent guest post by Craig
Havighurst on Billboard.biz-included an idea that is perhaps
the best way to screw up copyright reform – ongoing or
even increased government intervention in dictating to
songwriters how much they should be paid for their creations
16-Point
Band Website Assessment Checklist
When
reviewing websites for musicians, we generally break down
the reviews into 3 categories:Design,
Organization &
Navigation, Content.
For each category, there are
certain key things that we look out for. We’ve decided to
share our checklist so bands can assess their own websites!
So here’s our 16-point band
website assessment checklist to measure how your website is
doing.
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