Browsing all posts in April, 2009.
No Online Presence
What happens when a company, band, artist, etc. does not maintain an online presence? Well, let’s look at what happened just last week. Most people have seen the musical sensation of Susan Boyle as she sang on “Britain’s Got Talent” and amazed a skeptical crowd. The performance was all over YouTube and estimates are that [...]
Twitter Quitter?
A recent report by Nielsen Online stated that Twitter may have some trouble in the near future. The trouble may come in the fact that Twitter only has a one-month retention rate of 30-40%, meaning after users have signed up, only 30-40% are still using the service by the following month. This contrasts with a [...]
US Concert Corporate Sponsorships
Corporate sponsorship of major concert events are expected to rise 3.8% this year in a sign that companies are increasingly devoting money to live music events. Companies based in North America will spend $1.08 billion in music sponsorships this year, compared to $1.04 billion last year. This includes sponsoring tours, festivals, and music venues. The [...]
New Media
Here are some fun stats from the iPhone, Twitter, and YouTube: The iPhone is about to surpass the 1 billion mark on applications downloaded. As of now, 993 million apps. There is even an application that tracks the number of downloads. Check out this list of Musician Twitterers who have the most followers: 1. Britney [...]
Australian Tours
Sony Music Entertainment Australia just partnered with Chugg Entertainment to focus on touring and events for the Australian region. The particular branch of Sony Australia is called Day 1 Entertainment, and along with Chugg, they will co-promote domestic and international acts for Australian tours. Their first big tour will involved Simon and Garfunkel. Other upcoming [...]
Peru Concerts
The South American country of Peru continues to attract some big name USA artists for live concerts. KISS just did a concert and had 30,000 people attend. They played at the National Stadium in Lima. 30,000 people! I’ve written many times about the large Rock n Roll culture in Peru and how there is a [...]
Twitterpated
Seems like I hear something new every day about Twitter, so I thought I’d blog about it. I just signed up a few weeks ago and have been pretty amazed. For those unfamiliar, Twitter allows you to send quick updates on your life (at the gym, just got in a wreck, in love, etc) and [...]
MySpace Playlist Sharing
A new development out of MySpace will have big implications for musicians. MySpace is now allowing artist to publish and share their playlists on a number of different social networking sites. Some of the majors include LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Artists can also spread their album cover pages to these sites, as well as to [...]
The iPhone App
Apple is about to pass an important mark of having over 1 billion downloads for the iPhone. Apple opened up its Application store last year for developers to write programs that could work on the iPhone. Since that time, Apple has had over 950 million of these applications downloaded. Many of the applications are free, [...]
Vevo Music Service
The much awaited online video channel for Universal Music has taken further steps forward. This video channel will be a partnership between YouTube and Universal Music and will live at vevo.com. Universal Music currently has the highest numbers of viewers for a particular YouTube channel. That’s great for Universal, but also a bit of a [...]
