Think of Your Music as a Service
As an independent recording artist, do you think of your music as a service or as a product? When the phonograph debuted in 1877, the traditional service of music (live performance) was… Read More →
Why Facebook Is Not Your Hub
- Categories: Identity, Social media •
- Tags: author, bandcamp, brand, branding, communications, delicious, digg, facebook, facebook ipo, facebook profile, flickr, friendster, hubs, identity, independent artist, independent music, indie, indie artist, indie music, marketing, marketing performance, myspace, napster, online social networking, recording artist, reddit, reverbnation, social information processing, Social media, social web, spotify, stumbleupon, twitter, wampus, web 2.0, youtube •
- 2 Comments •
- by Wampus
Does Facebook help you in your marketing efforts? Sure it does. If you’re a recording artist or author, Facebook gives you some of the most useful and powerful tools available… Read More →
Hear-Like-Buy: Why Spotify Is Marketing, Not Commerce
- Categories: Identity, Music business •
- Tags: amazon, artistic brand, artistic identity, artists, best buy, brand, CD, copyright, digital audio, digital media, download, facebook, free spotify, freeware, identity, indie artists, indie music news, indie rock music, intellectual property, media technology, megaupload, mixtape, music distribution, music sharing, music streaming, napster, playlists, spotify, stream, streaming music, tower records, vinyl, walmart •
- 2 Comments •
- by Wampus
You can’t read an article in the music press without tripping over somebody complaining about Spotify royalties. You’ve heard the chorus: Spotify is destroying what’s left of the CD market.… Read More →
Spotify Royalties Rising?
- Categories: Music business •
- Tags: application software, artist, computing, digital audio, fail to pay, freeware, launch, media technology, music, music download services, music industry, music streaming, napster, online music stores, pandora, rhapsody, royalties, royalty, royalty rates, spotify, stream, streaming media, streaming service, virtual communities, web 2.0 •
- No Comments •
- by Wampus
All right, artists — have you bought your first sandwich yet with your Spotify royalties? We first examined streaming royalties in August, and are taking a fresh look at them… Read More →
Spotify: 3 Tips for Artists
- Categories: Music business •
- Tags: amazon, artist, artistic identity, choice, digital audio, digital media, facebook, freeware, identity, indie artist, indie artists, media technology, mistrust, mixtape, multimedia, music, music distribution, music sharing, music streaming, playlists, recording artist, spotify, stream, streaming music, tips •
- No Comments •
- by Wampus
Depending on whom you ask, the music-streaming service Spotify is either the savviest music-sharing platform ever or the canniest artist-fleecing apparatus ever. Either way, it just might be the future of… Read More →