How Often Do We Over Hype? Marketer Seth Godin On The Dylan Broadway Failure
How often does the industry over-hype or just bring too much attention to an artist in a way that actually alienates audience and diminishes the "brand"? Marketing guru Seth Godin. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Monday October 30th, 2006
– Don’t miss our exclusive interview with Gary Chen the CEO of Chinese download leader Top100.cn who recently cut a landmark deal with digital distributor The Orchard to bring their. Continue reading
Part II Of Q&A With CEO Of Chinese Download Leader Top100
As CEO of Top100.CN Gary Chen recently cut a groundbreaking deal with digital distributor The Orchard to make their massive catalog available in the emerging Chinese market. HYPEBOT: Because The. Continue reading
eMusic Snags Victory Downloads
Indie label Victory has long been know for it’s aggressive and creative promotion including MySpace, digital street teams and more. But they’ve been slow to embrace digital downloads only recently. Continue reading
EMI CEO Levy Sees A Radically Different The Future
In a wide ranging speech at The London School Of Business EMI Music CEO Alan Levy gave his view of the major labor future: "…let’s not be fooled that the. Continue reading
Warner Believes In Video. Taps Brightcove. Who Cares?
Following its deal with YouTube Warner Music is further spreading its video content across the net via a new deal with Brightove. "Across WMG’s network of artist and label web. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Friday October 27th, 2006
– The Eagles and Wal-Mart have formed a "strategic marketing partnership". (press release) But really, it’s all about the music… – Sony BMG gave its quarterly report to Wall Street.. Continue reading
Exclusive Interview With CEO Of China’s Download Leader Top100.cn
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW PART 1 – Emerging markets are seen as huge areas of potential growth for the music download industry. Piracy has slowed down some players, but digital distributor The. Continue reading
Flash Concerts Tour Marries Live Music And The Cell
Flash Concerts 2006 launches this month with free concerts in 10 cities across the United States featuring sponsored by Cingular Wireless and Sony Ericsson. This live music series uses text. Continue reading
Only Months After Payola Probe Pay For Play Is Back At Radio
Will things ever change? Just months after the major labels settled the NY payola probe, two Universal distributed labels (Blackground and the band Nickleback on Roadrunner) reportedly tried to influence. Continue reading
