For any artist or band, having a high ranking is incredibly important to maintaining your online presence and being discoverable by your fans. Because of this every slight edge you can gain when it comes to SEO matters, including the implementation of image alt text. ______________________________ Guest post by Bobby…
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Soundcharts Launches ‘Mentions’ Tracking 2M Artists
Music data analytics platform Soundcharts today launched what it’s calling its biggest product update since going online in 2016. A new feature dubbed Mentions enables global media and web monitoring of two million artists with geotargeted data from tens of thousands of sources. Mentions is designed to help to spot…
How To Save The Money You Need To Hire A Music Publicist [KOSHA DILLZ]
How do you spend money on press and pr? You have the money I promise you. It might not seem like you have the ability to pay for these things, but you probably do and need to reallocate your life. If you are an independent artist, you might be spending…
The Value Of Merch For Today’s Working Artist With Joey Stucky [INTERVIEW]
Here award-winning musician, personality, and engineer Joey Stuckey discusses the success of his music and the important role merch plays in branding his act and drawing in valuable revenue. _____________________________ Guest post from Disc Makers Blog Being blind hasn’t stopped Joey Stuckey from living a life of intention, joy, and…
Fender, Apple Music Partner For Fender Songs App Powered By 7Digital
[UPDATED] Fender has partnered with Apple Music to launch the Fender Songs app which allows users to stream, practice, play along and perform to millions of songs on guitar, ukulele or piano and provides learning paths, lessons with instructors, video-on-demand, chord charts, tablature and more. Users can also reference targeted…
10 Ways To Enjoy Yourself More On Tour
Touring, particularly that of the DIY variety, brings with it countless challenges and stress-inducing mishaps, and can at times be hard to remember when you wanted to be on the road in the first place. Here, Ellisa Sun reminds us of ten key ways in which artists can have more…
Founder Benji Rogers and A PledgeMusic Staffer Respond To News That Artists Will Never Be Paid
After news broke yesterday that PledgeMusic had $9.57 million in debt and assets worth $25,000 leaving "little prospect" that artists and other creditors will be paid, Hyepbot heard from two ex-staffers with intimate knowledge of the debacle. Founder and former CEO Benji Roger’s interview with a court-appointed receiver makes up…
Indie, Major Label Trade Groups Launch Joint Data Service
IFPI and WIN, trade groups representing major and independent record labels respectively, have announced a cross-industry collaboration to create Repertoire Data Exchange (RDx), a centralized industry data exchange. PPL, the UK music industry’s collective management organization, will operate the new service. The roll-out of RDx to all right holders and…
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Marketing 2020: Strategies Creators Can Implement To Separate Themselves From The Crowd
"The general consumer is seeing over 5,000 plus ads a day, a 60% plus increase in ad expose since 2015," writes the Nue Agency’s Jesse Kirshbaum and Clayton Durant of CAD Management. "Amongst all this noise and content saturation, a creative’s marketing strategy has become just important as the quality…