Those Kids In College…
Waner Music tech director Ethan Kaplan recently lectured at USCB and as chronicled in his blog BlackRimGlasses during some "show of hands" surverys found that: About 1/3 had a MySpace. Continue reading
Marketing At SXSW
Coolfer tipped us of to Trendcentral’s list of the Top 4 cool marketing campaigns at SXSW. Sadly, since it’s a music industry event, only one of the winners was music. Continue reading
Dailysonic Creates New Net Radio Revenue Model
Talk and music stream Dailysonic may have created a new revenue model for internet radio. Their system allows listeners to remove advertisements from their online radio show by purchasing "Subtracts".. Continue reading
Loken Leaves Label Land For Live Nation Marketing Post
Concert industry giant Live Nation (formerly Clear Channel) has been making noise about getting more creative and targeted with it’s live music marketing in this new age where old media. Continue reading
Album Sales Slump Continues
According to Nielsen SoundScan album sales have dropped 3% so far this year though digital single sales have increased 96%. This preliminary first quarter outlook is part of a larger. Continue reading
Who Needs The DJ’s?
The internet has helped to keep many niche music genre’s alive and provided the tools for them to find and feed as wide an audience as possible. Of course with. Continue reading
French Efforts To Open Apple’s DRM Will Have Little International Effect
The media is going gaga over proposed French legislation that would force Apple to open its priority DRM software to others. Siting interoperability issues that are certainly slowing the march. Continue reading
Sideload Aggregates Thousands Of Free Label Downloads
It had to happen sooner or later. Someone would do a thorough job of collecting all of the thousands of free perfectly legal DRM-free mp3.’s that record labels have sprinkled. Continue reading
New NARM Study Gives Music Retailers Hope
A new NPD Group study for NARM (National Assoc. Of Record Merchandisers – aka record stores) surprisingly found "opportunities in the near-term to increase sales among an active group of. Continue reading
