Pandora has partnered with T-Mobile to offer a free one year Pandora Plus subscription. But the promotion only last a single day – August 28th.Pandora Plus is an ad-free music streaming service that allows unlimited skips, replay songs and offline stations. In June, Pandora announced a more expensive partnership with…
Category archives: Apps & Mobile
6 Apps For Tracking, Analyzing, Earning More Royalties
From tuning to songwriting, apps can be of tremendous value to musicians even, as it turns out, when it comes to royalties. Here we look at six apps which artists can use to keep track of their earnings from royalties, and even harness the data to their advantage. ______________________ Guest…
How Amazon’s Twitch.tv Cheats Music Creators
[UPDATED] In this piece, Erin M. Jacobson, Esq. reveals how both music creators and music rights’ owners are both being cheated out of a significant new source of potential revenue when their music is used by Amazon subsidiary Twitch in its live streams. ___________________________ Guest post by Erin M. Jacobson,…
Royalty Exchange Launches Free ‘Know Your Worth’ Zillow-For-Songwriters App
Royalty Exchange has launched a new app that it claims will provide songwriters and rights holders with a better idea of how much their intellectual property is worth. Billed as “Zillow for songwriters” – a reference to the successful real estate data aggregator – the Know Your Worth App collects…
Musical.ly, TicTok Apps Merge As Facebook Closes In
Popular short video music app Musical.ly is merging with TikTok today, in a move to consolidate their substantial audiences just as Facebook and Instagram ramp up their own efforts to dominate bit-sized video. Starting today, Musical.ly users will have their app switched to TikTok via an update; with their old…
Instagram Targeting Mobile Generation With IGTV
With Facebook no longer the youth powerhouse it once was, Facebook owned Instagram is hoping to get these mobile-centric digital natives to spend an increased amount of time on Instagram, thanks in part to its new long-form video service. __________________________ Guest post by David Deal of the Superhype Blog The…
ArtistGrowth, Pinnacle Partner To Bring Financial Services, Capital To Touring Artists
ArtistGrowth, a mobile artist management platform, and Pinnacle Financial Partners have announced a strategic partnership and equity investment designed to broaden the financial services and capital available to touring entertainers. Details of Pinnacle’s investment were not disclosed. ArtistGrowth launched in 2013 with a $2 million seed investment from industry veterans…
Instagram’s IGTV Allows Artists To Post Longform Videos, As Long As They’re Vertical
In this piece Chris Robley walks us through exactly how artists and bands can set about utilizing Instagram’s new IGTV in order to easily upload longform video – provided its in vertical form. ____________________________ By Chris Robley from CDBaby’s DIY Musician blog Musicians, now you can share your FULL music…
Bandsintown Adds Int’l Partners, 35% Users Now Outside Of North America
Concert discovery and marketing app Bandsintown has announced key partnerships in Japan and France to further expand its international reach. 35% of Bandsintown’s 130 million monthly active users are currently from outside of North America. Globally, Bandsintown serves 42 million registered users and 450,000 touring artists. A new partnership with…
BandsInTown Adds Events Landing Page For Social Sharing
Concert discovery and marketing app BandsInTown has added free Events Landing Pages to its BandsInTown manager platform that are shareable on social media via a custom shortlink. _________________________________ Bandsintown has launched new Events Landing Pages that display all an artist’s tour dates and are shareable on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter…