Major U.S. ISPs Launch Anti-Piracy System: ‘6 Strikes And We’ll Throttle You’
A long promised U.S. Copyright Alert System (CAS) finally went live earlier today. Starting with Comcast and followed by AT&T, Cablevision,Time Warner, and Verizon later this week, major ISP's will. Continue reading
What Is Indie? Can An Artist Top The Charts Without Help From A Major?
By Kevin Erickson, Communications Associate, and Olivia Brown, Intern, at The Future Of Music Coalition. Let’s look at some stats: Jack White’s Blunderbuss, number one debut on the Billboard 200,. Continue reading
3 Trends Shaping The Future Of Product Development
Guest post by Max Engel (@8bitkid) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Content providers are at a crossroads in the evolution of narratives online. Users are increasingly accessing. Continue reading
Tunezy’s New Fan Wishlists Connect Musicians And Fans Through Tangible Experiences
Last week Tunezy announced the introduction of Fan Wishlists that provide a structured means for musicians to identify fan experiences, i.e. direct interactions between fan and artist, that can then. Continue reading
Case Study: Is Free Music Worth It?
By Nick Roberts of And The Giraffe writing for Sunshine Promotion. While it’s damn near impossible to calculate the life-time value of a fan for an up and coming independent. Continue reading
Kevin Arnold Named Co-Chair Of NARM’s digitalmusic.org
Kevin Arnold has been named co-chair of digitalmusic.org, the digital arm of music business trade group NARM. Arnold, currently the EVP and Senior Advisor to the Global Digital Business Group. Continue reading
Premiumization 101 for Musicians
What is the value of music in the digital age? Music conveys emotions and is abundant which can make it hard to sell as a product. Musicians are finding other. Continue reading
Facebook Admits They’ve Been Underreporting Your Page Reach For Months
In an unexpected turn of events, Facebook last week announced that their "engineering audit" of Page Insights "uncovered bugs that impacted impression and reach reporting." Apparently this is the explanation. Continue reading
Who Won The 2013 Academy Awards In Music?
Music at the movies was the unofficial theme of the 2013 Academy Awards, and many big names preformed: Jennifer Hudson, Adele, Barbra Streisand, host Seth MacFarlane, Kristin Chenoweth, Shirley Bassey,. Continue reading