OK GO, A Bathroom, You Tube & Viral Marketing
Soon our entire lives will be televised. Much has been made in the blogosphere of OK GO’s clever use of new media and viral marketing. Rightfully so, as witnessed by. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Tuesday September 5th, 2006
– MySpace is going to enable fans to sell music right from their MySpace pages using a SnoCap widget that we profiled two week ago. The tracks will be sold. Continue reading
UPDATED: MySpace To Sell Music Of 3 Million Unsigned Acts
UPDATED: MySpace is going to empower fans to sell music straight from their own MySpace pages using a widget created by SnoCap that Hypebot profiled five weeks ago. The tracks. Continue reading
WOXY To Shut Down September 15th
Alternative rock internet broadcasting leader WOXY is on the verg of shutting down according to the stations web site. "This is the moment all of us hoped would never come.. Continue reading
Labor Day Weekend Actvities List For The New Music Industry
Has holiday weekend boredom set in yet? Just in case, here are a few things to help you stay cool, current and caught up with what’s up in the new. Continue reading
The Summer’s Top Concert Tours
USA Today took a look at the summer’s top cocert tours. Not surprisingly, heritage acts continue to lead the pack and packaging multiple acts together got a consumer thumbs up.. Continue reading
Village Voice’s Robert Cristgau Fired
The firings at NYC’s Village Voice continued yesterday with influential music critic Robert Cristgau. Read his open letter to friends and fans on the firing after the jump. "…since I. Continue reading
New Spiral Frog Poll
SpiralFrog with it’s ad supported free downloads is the talk of the industry. What do you think SpiralFrog’s impact will be? Please vote in our online poll in Hypebot’s left column. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Friday September 1st, 2006
– Defective By Design is planning a day of worldwide actions on October 3rd to raise awareness against DRM. Past protests have included call-in campaigns and picketing Apple stores dressed. Continue reading
POLL: 82.5% Say Zune Provides No Real Competiton
In Hypebot’s unscientific poll of readers and industry insiders a whopping 82.5% believe that Microsoft’s ZUNE player and download store will provide no real competition when it launches later this. Continue reading
