UPDATED: TuneCore today launched TuneCore Social Pro, a social media management platform that enables artists to manage their social media activity and distribution sales in a single app and dashboard. ______________________________________ TuneCore’s newly launched SocialPro offers a mobile app and dashboard to help musicians manage social media and digital distribution….
Category archives: Apps & Mobile
Spotify Is Planning Its Own Music Hardware, Voice Control
[UPDATED] Two jobs listings point to a major expansions of Spotify’s ambitions to include music hardware with voice control. While details are scarce, they hint at a wearable device "akin to Pebble Watch, Amazon Echo, and Snap Spectacles." ___________________________________ Snapchat is building eyewear, Facebook is building 360 cameras, and now…
Know-Your-Audience Mobility Patent For Concerts For Sale
IPinvestments Group is selling an interesting portfolio of music technology related patents, including one aimed at understanding real-time audience behavior and sentiment via mobile activity during a concert. As I understand it, the patent enables the collection of quantitative and qualitative data from mobile devices to understand audience interaction before,…
Facebook Announces Full Spotify, Apple Music Messenger Integrations
UPDATED: "Music will play a much larger roll in messenger this year," promised Facebook’s head of the Messenger platform David Marcus on stage Tuesday during Facebook’s F8 developer conference before announcing two key integrations. _________________________________ Spotify is now fully integrated into the Facebook Messenger app, the social media giant announced…
GarageBand Is Now FREE For All Apple iOS & macOS Users
Apple’s hugely popular Garageband recording app is now free for all iOS and masOS users. While notable, the change may not have a major impact given that both have been free for the last five years with hardware purchase. iMovie, Keynote, Numbers and Pages now also free for all iOS…
Spotify Has Launched A Facebook Messenger Bot For Music Discovery And Sharing
UPDATE 2: Spotify has launched a bot for Facebook Messenger that lets friends share music within chats. The bot includes search, recommendations, sharing a 30 second song clip within Messenger, or launching Spotify to hear the full song. Spotify has created a bot for Facebook Messenger that lets friends discover…
Facebook Owns 4 Of 5 Most Downloaded Apps
Facebook’s march to world domination continues. New research by app analytics firm Sensor Tower shows that Facebook’s WhatsApp, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Facebook owned Instagram and (those guys who refused to sell to Facebook) Snapchat were the most downloaded apps worldwide for the first 3 months of 2017. Related articles Facebook…
Millions More People Are Using Instagram Stories Than Snapchat
[UPDATED] Facebook has shared that 200 million people are now using Instagram’s Stories feature – Snapchat-like disappearing photo and video collections – which launched in August . That’s up from 150 million in January. In addition to the impressive growth, the big story here is that more people are using…
How To Use Snapchat Stories To Engage Event Goers
Having now surpassed both Twitter and LinkedIn in number of users, Snapchat continues to grow, even among an older audience, meaning its an excellent way to engage a wide swath of potential event-goers. Here we break down how to build a compelling narrative of Snapchat Stories surrounding your event. _____________________________…
14 Best Instagram Apps For Taking Your Content To The Next Level
Although it hasn’t been around as long as some social media platforms, Instagram has nonetheless become a crowded place to try and get your brand (or your band) notice. Fortunately, there are a variety of Instagram apps which allow you to diversify your content offerings and stand out from the…