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Old People Taking over Facebook
When you are a teenager, what is the one surefire way to kill a party? Invite adults. For the first time ever, the number of 15-24 year olds establishing a new profile on Facebook has dropped. It’s just not as cool when your parent or your parents friends can look in on what you are [...]
Social Media & Creativity
Does this new emphasis on Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace take away from the creative process? Is it possible that the artist begins to spend too much time updating Facebook instead of writing new songs? Yeah, the major artists have teams completing the social networking, but sometimes that becomes obvious. If a corporate intern is doing [...]
Facebook vs. MySpace
It’s official. Facebook has now surpassed MySpace in unique visitors. For May 2009, Facebook had 70.278 million unique visitors compared to 70.255 million for MySpace (results by comScore). Yet, for artists, MySpace is still the go-to site for music. A MySpace page is still a requirement and it seems to have a better platform for [...]
Social Networking Trends for Musicians
Do you know where your fans are? What about the social networking trends? Where are people spending time online? Nielsen just released some numbers for the top Social Networking sites. The results are pretty impressive and tell a lot about current trends: Facebook drew 250 million minutes on their site in April ’09 (up 699%). [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Facebook vs. MySpace
Facebook is really starting to take off internationally. I’ve noticed it just in friend requests I have recently received from contacts in Poland, Mexico, Egypt, and Peru. In total, Facebook now has 200 million users around the world. This compares to 130 million users around the globe for MySpace. MySpace continues to boast a larger [...]
Social Networking vs. Email
Are you noticing more and more of your time being spent on Facebook as opposed to Gmail? If so, you are not alone. A recent study from Nielsen concluded that Social Networking Sites have participation levels of 67% compared to email’s 65%. This is the first time that social networking sites have overtaken email’s importance. [...]
Et tu Facebook?
And you too, Facebook? Last Friday, MySpace removed the Project Playlist service from their website after receiving pressure from the major labels and the RIAA. Project Playlist allows users to assemble music playlists of their favorite songs. Turns out, these songs are not licensed and are just assembled from around the internet. So, the artists [...]
Facebook’s Foray
The NY Post reported that Facebook may be looking into making a stronger presence in the digital music business. Just recently, MySpace improved their presence with MySpace Music. They did this by releasing equity in MySpace Music to the major labels in exchange for the licenses to the songs. Should Facebook make a stronger push, [...]
