Musician Posts Public Domain Songs, Major Labels Claim Ownership, YouTube Attacks Musician
By Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) of the essential tech site Techdirt. We've talked in the past about how YouTube's ContentID system fails at fair use and the public domain — whereby. Continue reading
Apple Is Pulling YouTube From iOS & It’s Bad News For Music, Apps
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. When the very first iPhone shipped, literally changing the world as we knew it, it carried a little Trojan horse inside of. Continue reading
Musician Website Quick Fix #10: Embed Video
Guest post from musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. We often talk about “hub and spokes” here at Bandzoogle, which is the concept of making your artist website your “hub” of. Continue reading
New Social Media Marketing Features: Rdio, Facebook, Stipple, YouTube, Tumblr
Social media giants like Facebook, YouTube and Tumblr keep rolling out new features and other changes such as Facebook's new Photo Mosaic display or Tumblr's Pinned Posts. Rdio's playlist artwork. Continue reading
MusicThinkTank.com Weekly Recap: Boosting Views On Your Videos & More
Where The Music Industry Thinks Out Loud Tom Dennehy: Can the Cloud Satisfy the Streaming Audio Demands of Bit Snobs? Simon Tam: Boosting Views on Your Videos and Engagement with. Continue reading
Would Fans Pay For Better Sound On YouTube?
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. A Twitter person recently said that they would pay for a premium version of Twitter. We can’t remember who it was. Sorry,. Continue reading
How Google & Search Engine Optimization Changed The Music Industry
Today Google and others are launching the next version of the Internet – IPv6 which will be a new, larger version of the Internet. No one can deny the impact. Continue reading
Blayze: Fans. Artists. United
I was recently watching Kurt Schneider’s YouTube cover of “Safe and Sound” by Taylor Swift, AND expecting a typical cover video. However, at the end of the video, Kurt encouraged. Continue reading
Fresh Music Marketing Tools For Pinterest, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, Tumblr
Lots of new tools and features are rolling out from the big guns of social media that music marketers will find of interest: Pick your own Pinterest board cover. Go. Continue reading
New Essential Music Promo Tools For Google, Bing, Facebook, YouTube & Vimeo
Just when you think you have all the angles down for promoting your music via a particular web service, they go and add something new you have to consider including. Continue reading