Pandora Makes Sharing Music On Facebook Easier
All settings related to sharing music activity can be adjusted both on Pandora and Facebook. Pandora Chief Technology Officer and EVP of Product, Tom Conrad said in a statement, "For those who want to share, Pandora's new timeline app serves as another platform for music exposure and discovery, which benefits listeners, artists and advertisers. With Facebook's recent addition of the Music section for timeline, we're now offering personalized social sharing experiences for every type of listener. " Amazon & Book Publishers Just Made Music Industry Look Like Neanderthals
Fan Fiction Authors Are To Books What DJs Are To Music Excertps from the release:
I know.. There are platforms that allow users to license a hit song for a YouTube; and occasionally a band will let fans remix a song as part of a contest. But Kindle Worlds is allowing secondary creators to make real money - 35% of net - for borrowing heavily from the original work. No morass of multi-party deal making. No upfront licensing fees. Just: Create > Sell > Share in the profit. How often does that happen in music? Teens Are Moving From Facebook To Twitter [Pew Study]
Pew data shows that a segment of teens think of Twitter differently. "When we ask a standalone question about Twitter use, there is consistently a group of users who say they are not users of social networking sites, but they do use Twitter," says Pew. Of the 24% of online teens who use Twitter, 3% say they do not use a social networking site like Facebook.
Read the full Pew report. DIY Music Tech News: SoundCloud x Songkick, Piki, Topspin x Dropbox, Google+ Hangouts
SoundCloud x Songkick SoundCloud and Songkick are getting a bit closer with a concerts listing integration in your SoundCloud sidebar. [Update: older news than I realized but still worth noting.] Bonus: 4 Places You Should Be Entering All Of Your Concert Dates including Songkick Piki Goes Desktop Piki debuted last month as a mobile music app from the Turntable.fm team. This month Piki launched a web app for desktop users. And, yes, this was the one non-DIY note in the batch. Topspin x Dropbox Earlier this month Topspin introduced ‘Send to Dropbox’ with GoDirect to facilitate usage of Dropbox for music distribution and sharing. In the process they resolve some important issues for mobile access to streaming media. Google+ Hangouts Iterates This month Google+ Hangouts introduced multiple waves of improvements including live rewind and immediate publishing plus upgraded mobile images. Other tweaks followed but the improvement of live performance seems key for folks using Google+ Hangouts for performances, meet and greets and seminars. Hypebot Senior Contributor Clyde Smith (@fluxresearch/@crowdfundingm) also blogs at Flux Research and Crowdfunding For Musicians. To suggest topics for Hypebot, contact: clyde(at)fluxresearch(dot)com. Google Launches Free YouTube Creator Academy Courses To Maximize Your Channel
Sign up for the course here. Here's the YouTube intro reel: The 3 Most Profitable DIY Revenue Streams, And Why Many Artists Succeed at Only One of Them
(Read On) Tips For Collecting Music When You're Drowned In Sound
Our pal Sean Adams of the music reviews and community site Drowned In Sound picked up on our frustration about how hard it is to collect music these days, even as we are quite figuratively “drowning in sound.” Music is everywhere, and yet, perversely, it’s harder to collect. Now, the DiS community is talking about how they stop the music they like from getting away. (Indeed, the Evolver.fm community feels the same way, having just picked the fictional music-collecting app we invented as the one they most want to see made in a recent poll.) This is valuable intelligence for music fans. We collated it into a handy list below, paraphrasing for uniformity and brevity. So far, here’s how these fans say they are collecting music, in case you’re looking for some new tricks to help you keep the stuff you like when it’s spread out across the cloud, various hard drives, computers, smartphones, tablets, physical media, mobile apps, streaming radio, video, radio, television, restaurants, bars, discos, advertisements, and so on. Look at Last.fm to see what you scrobbled from all over the place (how to do that). Bookmark your YouTube Likes page. Tto find those, put your YouTube username here: http://www.youtube.com/user/yournamehere/videos?tag_id=&view=15&sort=dd Try the Fluence app (except you can’t because it’s not out yet). Make “listen to” playlists. (He probably means in iTunes or something, because music writers get a lot of download links in their email accounts; however, you can do the same thing in Deezer, MOG, Rdio, Rhapsody, Spotify, YouTube, or whatever other on-demand music service you prefer.) Go to iTunes > Recently Added Set reminders and email yourself the names of things you need to listen to. Rdio’s “Add To Collection” feature Check out Pitchify and harvest stuff from there. Leave so many tabs open with stuff to stream that your computer freaks out, which you don’t like, so you decide to ask your readers for ideas, which leads us to… DiS Readers’ tips in order of current popularity in the forum there: Put everything you like into iTunes or Spotify and then only listen to those. Keep a text list (this tactic was submitted multiple times, which speaks to the seriousness of the problem). Buy one vinyl record per week, and listen to those. Decide which ones to buy with SoundCloud, Spotify, and YouTube. Keep a list on your phone of bands that your friends mention in real life. Bookmark the streams you want to check out, and work your way through those, buying or illegally downloading the ones you like. Work at a record store, and put the interesting releases in a pile to listen to. Keep and revise a best-of-the-year playlist on an ongoing basis. Ignore Spotify and “random links,” buy the stuff you love on CD, and the stuff you like on MP3, and then listen to those. Only listen to entire albums. Count on your brain to remember the stuff you care about, and if you forget it, it probably wasn’t important enough. Keep a wishlist on rateyourmusic.com. Check out this playlist of new releases within Spotify each week, and star or add to a playlist the stuff you like. “1) Drag Spotify, SoundCloud, Deezer, iTunes, Grooveshark, etc. links into a monthly playlist in Tomahawk (see http://youtu.be/AONA0Imv3Vo?t=1m3s), 2) Listen to monthly playlist of new stuff. 3) Curate a playlist of the best songs from #2.” Preview music on Amazon and buy it if it’s good. Write it down on an actual notebook in your back pocket. Make a “to do” list in Spotify or another on-demand playlist. Skitter around on YouTube and Bandcamp and hope for the best. Keep four “rolling playlists” for 2013 in an on-demand music service, pay for the mobile version, and set them to sync to offline: for new albums, electronica, pop, and favorites from the other three. Read about an album, and if the article’s good, turn the album into a Spotify playlist or drop it into YouTube favorites. If it’s good, buy it on MP3 or vinyl. Ignore everything except for two albums at a time until you’ve totally digested them. Delete all your Spotify playlists and start over with just three: for current favorite albums (no more than five), for music to check out, and for permanent favorites. Buy the very best stuff on MP3. Again, we have paraphrased the above from Drowned in Sound, simply because there are so many good ideas in there and they deserve to be spread around as far as possible. Speaking of Drowned In Sound, Adams says “traffic has gone crazy” on the the site he founded in ’98 as an email fanzine, with nearly 10 million visits in 2013 and 1.2 million unique visitors (as of April 25). Image courtesy of SeaWorld.org This rorqual whale has no trouble collecting fish and crustaceans by filtering them out of the sea. Music fans are not as lucky, when it comes to filtering music out of the internet, and can risk drowning in sound. CueSongs Partners With AudioSocket
CueSongs signed agreements last year
with all the major publishers, as well as working directly with a number of
artists such as Groove Armada, Embrace, French Horn Rebellion, Dido, Ziggy
Marley Gabriel says: “Many of us want to add music to our videos, but have no idea how we might get the right permissions. Whether we be amateurs, semiprofessionals, small businesses or schools etc. there are millions of potential users, who currently have nowhere to go to license their music. CueSongs painlessly connects music licensing to the new world of social media, Youtube, and the web." Urturn Announces $13.4 Million Funding Round, Launches Mobile App
Urturn launched in 2011 as Webdoc, a more complicated offering that provided graphics, audio and video options for the creation of an embeddable, shareable HTML5 widget. However there seems to be a real limit to most people's desire to start from a blank canvas and Urturn has gradually simplified the offering focusing on templates that allow you to take such simple actions as choosing a photo and a song to combine in a "music postcard," as shown below: Apparently this focus, that led to the relaunch of Webdoc as Urturn in January, is working out well. Musicians continue to use Urturn for marketing campaigns with new projects in the works. And now Urturn has reached a major milestone. $13.4 Million Funding Round I spoke yesterday with Co-founder Vincent Borel who discussed today's announcement of a $13.4 million funding round, the first public round of investment in Urturn. He was quite excited about the news which includes $10.7 million from Balderton Capital. When asked what he'd do with all that money, he said they would continue to do what they do which, though it includes marketing campaigns and an onsite network, primarily focuses on giving web users tool for quick self-expression. Launch of iOS App One way they're making that possible is with a new iOS app that should be a good match for their Expressions or template approach to combining creative elements. It might also be a more appealing entry way to using Urturn than a desktop environment. Since a common approach used in Expressions is to take or upload a photo as part of the mix, the ability to take a mobile pic and create an Expression at that point should be a strong combo. With creation and sharing happening on the go, that will make Urturn more appealing to users as well as to those with marketing interests. Next Up: An API Borel said one of their next major launches is an API that will open up the creation of Expressions to third parties. For example, it will faciliate creating new templates that can then be shared, reused and become part of what will ideally be an ecosystem of interconnected platforms and parts from Urturn to social networks to websites. But Borel reiterated that the focus of Urturn was on the users and their desire to create. He wants to see Urturn maintain its openness to all users and to combine self-expression with immediate action. And now Urturn has the funding to take their Expressions to another level. Hypebot Senior Contributor Clyde Smith (@fluxresearch/@crowdfundingm) also blogs at Flux Research and Crowdfunding For Musicians. To suggest topics for Hypebot, contact: clyde(at)fluxresearch(dot)com. NEWS BRIEF: Eminem Sues Facebook, Sony Explores Spinoff, RIAA Cuts, Interlude +$16M, OK Go & MoreWEDNESDAY 5.22.2013 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web Updated Continuously Under Hypebot's More News Tab Above 
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