With an abundance of tips and ideas, Hypebot this week offers artists advice on how they can make Facebook ads work for them, get livestreaming at their next event, and the best U.S. cities for music. Facebook Ads: 6 Ways They Can Work For Performing Artists Facebook Vs.Twitter: Promoting Your…
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TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
For this week’s top posts, we looked at Napster’s flat user growth, how an indie songwriter found huge success with Pandora, whether pay per stream royalties are costing artists, and more. Rhapsody Is Now Officially Napster, User Growth Flat At 3.5M Globally How An Indie Singer-Songwriter Topped 1 Billion Streams…
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
In this round of our weekly wrap of big music industry news stories we look at the NMPA and Spotify’s declaration of victory, broadcast radio’s decline in influence, SFX’s withdrawal of its Beatport sale, and much more. NMPA And Spotify Declare Victory, But David Lowery Says Fight Has Just Begun…
6 Real Problems In Music Business The DOJ Should Be Investigating
Though it has recently been focused on several specific facets of public performance licensing, David Lowery examines six music business issues which the Department of Justice would be better off turning its attention to. __________________________________ Guest Post from The Trichordist Songwriters are perplexed by the attention that the Department of…
Time Travel, Teleportation And Music Publishing Metadata
This article looks at the value of metadata, as well as the challenge of keeping it accurate and up-to-date over time, as ownership and rights can easily change from year to year, as well the difficulties of dealing with geographical shifts. _____________________________ Guest Post by Annie Lin If you work…
How Do Music Preferences Differ Place To Place? Pandora Shares State By State Data
How musical preferences differ from place to place? Who are the top ten top acts in California, and how do they compare to New York? Pandora analyzed mountains of listener data to see which artists had the most station adds in the last year. Some of the results are obvious…
Create, Publish Your Own Ads With New YouTube Director App
Allowing its users to take the reigns for the first time ever, YouTube has released a new app, YouTube Director for Business, giving users the ability to produce and create ads which they can then easily publish on the video sharing site. ________________________________ Guest Post by Jacob Roggenbuck Coordinator, Rights…
5 Performance Psyc Skills Every Artist Should Master
Beyond the obvious technical expertise required to put on a good live show, musicians also need to be able to arm themselves with a certain set of performance psychology skills, or else even the greatest virtuoso will have a difficult time finding success. _______________________________________ Guest Post by Anthony Cerullo on…
Have We Reached Peak Festival Attendance? Bonnaroo 2016 Ticket Sales Down 46%
When a touchstone music festival has a 46% attendance drop, does it signal we’ve reached peak festival attendance? It’s too soon to call it a trend, but a signification number of existing fests shutting down or reporting smaller attendance. ______________________________________ It was a tough year for the 15th Bonnaroo Music…
Music Publishing News Roundup 7.15.16: Sony/ATV Michael Jackson EU Scrutiny • Indie Music Publishers Speak Out • PRS Financials
The European Commission will decide this month whether Sony/ATV may finalize its purchase of the Michael Jackson estate’s stake in its joint venture. Music companies and digital services have been invited to complete a survey pertaining to how to $750m buyout could alter or damage the music business in the…