The 10 Music Services You. Cannot. Live. Without.
Food and water will always have the edge, but here are the top ten services that music fans simply cannot live without. Of course, few are fixing on all ten, but most are addicted to at least one.
Social Networking Stats
If you’re serious about marketing your project, social networking sites should be a crucial area you’re tending to. To that end, here are the latest stats, as of last weekend:
How Lucy Schwartz Became a Featured Ping Artist
Most artists are not part of the Ping launch, at least not yet. But Lucy Schwartz just became one of twenty recently-featured artists (right between Linkin Park and Mark Ronson). So, what’s the secret handshake exactly?
MTV = Largest Music Site On The Net
When it comes to amassing music audiences online, powerful allies come in handy. That’s the lesson being taught by MTV Networks, which recently parlayed an ad-serving relationship with Warner Music Group to claim the top traffic slot among music sites in August. MTV’s 53 million-strong unique visitors edged out Vevo, which claimed 49 million, according to the latest Comscore Media [...]
Hacker Jacked Axl Rose’s Twitter, Tried To Cancel GNR Tour
A tweet declaring, “All upcoming Guns N’ Roses dates are officially canceled. Please contact your place of purchase for any refunds,” appeared on Axl Rose’s twitter feed, causing some panic in the UK where the band is due to headline the Leeds-Reading festival along with Arcade Fire. The tweet was suspect from the beginning though, since Rose twitters only slightly [...]
Let’s Make a Video. Ingredients? Flickr + Creative Commons…
Rappers may still want choppers and stretch Escalades in their videos, but the for rest of us, budgets have gone way, way down. And that’s a good thing, especially since creativity is hardly getting affected at all.
YouTube Starts Supporting 4K x 2K Resolution
So you probably know about 1080p by now. It’s “Full HD” resolution, and it’s the highest resolution that you can reasonable buy on an HDTV right now. But if you think 1080p is dense, you should have a look at 4K. 4K is short for 4K x 2K, which is an extreme high resolution that is generally only used when [...]
Cameramen ‘can easily put videos onto the web’
An expert has given his advice on how cameramen can put their videos onto the internet.
For Web-Financed Film Projects, a Curtain Rises
Kickstarter is a concept: a Web site that puts together creative types seeking money with backers willing to chip in micro- and macro-payments, a way to crowd-source the financing of ideas. Started last year, the company has become an unexpected influence on indie culture, a new model for a D.I.Y. generation.
