Coalition Of Top Music Industry Trade Groups Congratulate Trump On Win, Signal Agreement With Piracy Promises
Despite deep distrust of President – elect Trump within much of the music community, a diverse group of industry trade groups including A2IM, ASCAP, BMI, The RIAA, The Recording Academy and. Continue reading
TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
Some of the star-studded, heavily read posts on Hypebot this week covered topics ranging from how Instagram and Snapchat can be utilized to reach music fans, to how record labels. Continue reading
4 Best Practices For Strengthening Your Spotify Profile
As Spotify continues to grow and develop, the ways in which artists and fans can connect is also shifting. Here to help us keep up, we look at four of. Continue reading
CD Baby Acquires Show.co, Soundrop To Expand Artist Services, Pledges New Distribution Approach That Favors Constant Creation
CD Baby has acquired music marketing platform Show.co and its defunct app Soundrop. The deal continues a trend of established new music industry players including ReverbNation, PledgeMusic, TuneCore acquiring startups to. Continue reading
TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
Some of the most popular and well read posts on Hypebot from the past two weeks included Seymour Stein's embarrassing revelation about a deal with Madonna, Drake's redefinition of what. Continue reading
ReverbNation Acquires Audiokite Fan Feedback Platform
Artist services platform ReverbNation is thriving standing while others have disappeared, in part because it consistently innovates, and central to their mission has always been bringing artists closer to their fans.. Continue reading
THU. BRIEFING: Facebook Fights Piracy • YouTube Red Stats • Spotify Relaunches Artists Site • More
THURSDAY 11.3.16 Music Business News From Around The Web Facebook is finally getting a more serious about music piracy, but still needs to start paying creators. Updated continuously under our More. Continue reading
Should Spotify’s Daily Mix Be A Standalone Product?
After initially focusing more on human curation, the introduction of Spotify's more algorithm-based Daily Mix feature was extremely well received by users. Many were frustrated at the inability to synch. Continue reading
Have An Opinion? A Great Idea? MusicThinktank Wants You!
As many regular Hypebot readers know, we also publishes MusicThinkTank, the site dubbed "Where The Music Industry Goes To Think." Entirely crowdsourced, the MusicThinkTank community is both lively and supportive,. Continue reading
Pandora To ‘Unveil’ On Demand Streaming Music Service On Dec. 6th
Wall Street was not kind to Pandora this week after the music streamer announced its third straight quarterly loss and a second straight quarter of falling active listenership. Turnaround hopes. Continue reading
