Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Friday August 4th, 2006
– Retailer Tower has been put on credit hold by all of the major labels (and other news from NARM). (HITS) – Income was up and losses were down in. Continue reading
Live Music Is Hot On The Net
Live music ranging from vintage concert clips to live broadcasts of local clubs and major festivals is spreading like wildfire across the net. Big players and small are getting into. Continue reading
Trouble Ahead As Download Services Fail To Gain Traction
With the exception of iTunes and perhaps eMusic the paid download sector is in trouble. Inside Napster’s latest earnings report was the admission that music subscription levels had dropped 7%. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Thursday August 3rd, 2006
– Recently the RIAA has been backing down on suing people who use the "my IP address isn’t necessarily my PC" defense. So ZDnet has come up with a plan. Continue reading
MySpace vs. YouTube
YouTube may be getting all of the hype but MySpace is winning the race. According to Hitwise for the week ending July 29 MySpace got a 4.73% market share of. Continue reading
Coalition of Independent Music Stores Top 200 for Week Ending 7-30-06
Pos. ARTIST |TITLE 1 ALL TIME LOW|PUT UP OR SHUT UP 2 PETTY*TOM|HIGHWAY COMPANION 3 YORKE*THOM|ERASER 4 JURASSIC 5|FEEDBACK 5 PHARRELL|IN MY MIND 6 GNARLS BARKLEY|ST. ELSEWHERE 7 CASH*JOHNNY|AMERICAN V:. Continue reading
Google + XM = Opportunity For Music Marketers
Google has moved offline with a deal to sell ads on XM’s non-new channels via it’s recently purchased dMark internet based ad system according to Media Daily News. Two thoughts:. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Wednesday August 2nd, 2006
– RoyaltyShare aims to help labels and artists collect royalties over the dizzying array of digital platforms and takes only 1.5%. – USA-Today will publish a weekly page of Mediabase. Continue reading
New Revenue Source: Background Music While You Talk On Your Cell
If ring tones, ring tunes and ring backs aren’t enough for you, here comes background tones. It’s music playing in the background while you talk on your cell. Sounds annoying? . Continue reading
