Hypebot: 100% FREE Music Business, Music Marketing & Music Tech News

From Billboard and Music Business Worldwide to Variety, Music Ally, and Digital Music News, publications covering the music business, music marketing, and music tech are increasingly putting some or all of their content behind a paywall.

But Hypebot remains 100% free.

This is not a criticism of these platforms. They are doing what they must to survive in the face of the same obstacles that will see more than a third of all US newspapers go out of business before the end of 2025.

But Hypebot, launched 19 years ago to explore the changing music business, has continuously operated as a lean labor of love. With Alana Bonilla’s help, I mix daily original journalism alongside republished stories from expert sources and emerging platforms. In recent years, we’ve been helped in that effort by the most genuinely artist-centric company I know, Bandsintown, who acquired Hypebot in 2019.

We urge you to – as we do – subscribe to as many of those other publications as you can.

But please also help spread the word that the content on Hypebot is still 100% free.

Bruce Houghton is the Founder and Editor of Hypebot, a Senior Advisor at Bandsintown, President of the Skyline Artists Agency, and a Berklee College Of Music professor.