Kickstarter Cancels Drip XOXO Artist Subscription Project: Serving Small Creators Is Unsustainable
XOXO, the Kickstarter backed successor the Drip artist and label subscription platform is shutting down before it launches. "Ultimately, we couldn’t find a way to make the business viable," the. Continue reading
4 Crowdfunding Alternatives To PledgeMusic for Musicians
The demise of PledgeMusic left many musicians doubting the legitimacy of crowdfunding. But the music marketing experts that we've interviewed still strongly still believe in music crowdfunding even as they. Continue reading
5 Music Crowdfunding Myths – Busted! [Ariel Hyatt]
Crowdfunding has become a key tool in the DIY artist toolkit, but doing it successfully is harder than it looks. Here Cyber PR's Ariel Hyatt does a little myth busting. Continue reading
How To Build Your Crowdfunding Team – A Musician’s Guide
Ariel Hyatt's best selling book CROWDSTART is now a 3-part masterclass – Cyber PR LAB 9. With leading crowdfunding service PledgeMusic at least temporarily offline, this must-read book excerpt and. Continue reading
Amanda Palmer Has Earned $2.8M With ‘Punk’ Crowdfunding
For some artists, asking fans for money is a bridge too far. But if they'd followed the career of Amanda Palmer, who has raised more than $2.8 million by "making. Continue reading
Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. and Indie Music
Our advice for the independent self-starters in the music industry this week covered how to give your album that perfect flow, how to grow superfans from the ground up, the. Continue reading
10 Reasons Fans Don’t Give To Your Kickstarter Campaign [Kosha Dillz]
Indie hip hop artist and music marketer extraordinaire Kosha Dillz is in the middle of a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for his new album N"obody Cares Except You" and, like the rest. Continue reading
Kickstarter Names Perfect Pussy’s Meredith Graves New Director Of Music
Meredith Graves has joined Kickstarter as their new Director of Music. Graves is an outspoken writer, former MTV News anchor, indie label founder and frontwoman for the hardcore punk band Perfect. Continue reading
Holding The Line On Statutory Damage Tradeoffs
Here Chris Castle warns of a suspected upcoming 'omnibus' bill of amendments to the Copyright act as the 2018 campaign season gets underway, and the importance of preventing Big Tech. Continue reading
