Music Marketing

The Full Text Of Banned LA Times “Free Music” Column

A few days ago The LA Times killed a column by Patrick Goldstein advocating more free music giveaways like Prince’s recent UK newspaper deal. The move was apparently to avoid. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/26/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Hypebot’s Coolfer Interview Part I

You can count on one hand the number of blogs that seriously write about the music industry and when Hypebot started in 2005, Glenn Peoples’ Coolfer.com was the standard by. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/26/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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EMI Partners With VerveLife To Exploit DRM Free For Broader Marketing

EMI has announced a strategic partnership with Chicago-based digital agency VerveLife. The partnership gives brand partners access to EMI’s catalogue to offer consumers downloads via promotional campaigns. EMI’s recent decision. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/24/2007 in Major Labels | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Listen To 11 Mercury Prize Album Of The Year Nominees

Bruce Houghton on 07/19/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Mercury Prize Nominees Announced

The Arctic Monkeys have instantly become favorites to win an unprecedented second Mercury "Album Of The Year" prize with today’s nominations. The nominees are: Arctic Monkeys – ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/17/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Live Music Goes Green

Live Earth is not the only place where music and the environmental movement are coming together. Green Mountain Energy and Sustainable Waves, a provider of solar powered sound and staging,. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/16/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Can Merch Save Music?

With record company advances and regular royalty checks a thing of the past, I know many bands for whom selling merchandise on the road is the difference between a profitable. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/13/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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InGrooves/ONE Digital’s Jason Kadelc On Fanning The Promotional Fire

We’re working on a series on innovative digital distributors like TuneCore and INgrooves/ONE Digital.  Just to give you a taste of some of the great stuff coming up, here is. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/12/2007 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (2)
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b5media Launches Music Blog Network

Today popular blogging network b5media is launching a diverse cluster of 30 music related blogs. "Since b5media first launched in September of 2005, we’ve felt the music scene was being. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/09/2007 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (5)
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MySpace TV Launches

MySpace is chasing YouTube with the launch today of a separate video, MySpace TV, that will feature both user-generated and other content that can be viewed without an account on. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/28/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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