Music Licensing Success Case Study: Steve Dodd
I recently interviewed Steve Dodd, a musician based out of Calgary who’s had a lot of success with TV and Film placements. As more and more artists want to get into this… Read More
One Simple Tip That Could Get You More Song Placements
Let’s put this in the Derp category. THIS –> Music Supervisors might love your track but because vocals are such a distinctive part of your song they might be forced to choose someone… Read More
SoundCloud Gets A Major Facelift
Big news from one of the internet’s biggest musician hubs, SoundCloud; they’ve got upgrades coming. Currently the upgrades are still in private beta mode, but soo enough the Next SoundCloud will reveal a… Read More
MegaUpload Who? The Web Bounces Back #obvs
Did you really expect anything else? The recent federal takedown of notorious file-sharing service Megaupload was initially seen as a huge victory for owners of copyrighted music and movies, but new research… Read More
More File Sharing Sites Go Down #UPDATE
Recently we wrote about how SOPA or no SOPA many file sharing sites were either being taken down or blocking US residents. The list was getting pretty long and unfortunately we can add a… Read More
Trouble For Grooveshark – All 4 Major Labels Are Now Suing
The end is nigh for Grooveshark. News comes today that all of the Majors are now suing the streaming music service. …After getting hit with lawsuits from Universal Music, Warner Music Group,… Read More
YouTube Buys RightsFlow – More Money For Songwriters #intheory
The other day I shared an interesting piece from Waxy.org. The story was about how all YouTube covers are illegal. Well today YouTube and Google have made a move that could appease the rights… Read More
Vimeo Creates Music Store – How To Add Your Own Music
Have you heard about the Vimeo Music Store where you can legally license and purchase music to add to your Vimeo videos? This is big news because Vimeo is a popular site for stylish,… Read More
Did Coldplay’s Anti-Streaming Strategy Work? #Calledit
Of course Coldplay’s anti-streaming strategy worked. Duh. I wrote about this recently when the world first learned that Coldplay won’t be giving their album to Spotify, Rdio, and other such streaming sites. It was… Read More
Bandcamp Gets A Facebook App
If you’re a Bandcamp user then you’ll probably enjoy this bit of news; Bandcamp is now offering a Facebook app/widget/plugin. Yay! The Bandcamp Facebook app puts all the functionality and content of… Read More
