All Entries Tagged With: "Twitter"
Fanning the flames of innovation: New Fan Management Tools & Companies
Angel Gambino begins a month of CEO interviews; this week’s interview is with Noah Dinkin CEO and co-founder of the dynamic Fanbridge service. See what was said and what points were brought up.
Musicblogocide 2010: How Doing Right Can Come Off So Wrong
This past week has been an abomination in PR for Google, starting with privacy upheaval in terms of Google Buzz’s automatic stalking…err following feature that added people you frequently IM and email without consent. Then came news that Google blog service Blogger deleted six of the biggest music blogs on its service, including their [...]
My Christmas Wish List
As I sit here at the end of an eventful year, it feels like we’ve made a lot of progress in digital music, but we have such a long way to go. My wish is that the gains we’ve made are the basis for the digital music landscape we’ve all dreamed of.
Digital services and devices [...]
Exclusive Service Review: ReverbNation Store
Cassandra Callais was lucky enough to be given a special pre-launch tour by Reverb Nations COO Jed Carlson along with the opportunity to review their soon to be launched ReverbNation Store service…
Show Me The Money
Measurement is a word that I have been hearing a lot lately in media and broadcast circles. Specifically, in terms of the measurement of social media activity.
Can it be assessed in the same way as marketing ROI? How indeed is it assessed? And what kind of budgets should be put aside for social media activity?
The [...]
TMV Exclusive: MusicMetric Enterprise Service Review
MusicMetric has added a new programme to its roster, the Enterprise service, which is an expanded version of the Essentials and Professional services. MusicMetric is a new entrant into music metrics and offers a real-time trend-tracking package that organizes and analyses artists’ online presence and breaks down the online fanbase. Its unique point is it [...]
How do the Indies Keep on Keeping On?
TMV would like you to welcome Marie-Alicia Chang as a new regular columnist focusing on analytics and insights in the music business.
There have been a lot of developments in the world of music industry analytics in the last six months. The multi-year deal signed by one of the Big Four to a data supplier [...]
Twones: The Music Start Up Made For Social Networking
Tim Heineke, co-founder of Dutch start-up Twones, said to Mashable, “music is moving away from the file and onto the browser.” The popularity of Last.fm, the iLike Facebook application and the #musicmonday hashtag topping Twitter’s trending topics every week are great indicators of this…but how can we fully integrate the personal playlist with social networking?
New [...]
Climbing Higher Into the Clouds
Is cloud computing the technology of the future or just another buzz word that will soon vanish from the trendy industry topics landscape? TMV recently attended a conference event organised by ‘First Tuesday’ at the Soho Hotel London in search of an answer to this question. We wanted to get our heads around the issues [...]
Exclusive: TMV Analyse Report Examining Impact of Social Networks on Artist Income
TMV managed to secure an exclusive preview of report by Dave Carter, Music Technology Lecturer at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University. The report examines whether digital social networks actually do lead to an increase in income for artists. We outline the key findings and it makes for interesting reading. The study was based [...]







Peter Sunde, one of the founders and former spokesperson of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, recently debuted a new venture…one that will actually make content owners money instead of bleeding them dry. The project is in the form of a service, called Flattr (get it, like flattering?) that aims to...


Everyone is now well familiar with the story of Spiral Frog and how it buried the ad-supported download model. Reasons given for this are numerous, ranging from reports of blatant mismanagement to non-compatibility with iPods to consumer resistance to being force fed a 60 or 90 second commercial before the...