Although both Snoop Dogg and Dr.Dre have experimented with virtual goods, no one has tried what Lady Gaga and Zynga are attempting. Zynga is the company behind such massively addicting and annoying time wasters as FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and CityVille. Those games have around 250 million active users a month and generate an estimated $850 million on [...]
I found this on digg. I think it’s great fun. This style of guitar playing is something that I have been gravitating to recently. But what drew me to this article was not the guitar style but the song and the medium. It’s a cool YouTube cover of a classic, but still a cover. My [...]
So the Beatles, arguably the best band in history, have joined the video game world by striking a deal to have a Beatles Rockband Game come out. The game apparently features the entire catalog of the material and marks their entry into the new world. They know the game will introduce new generations to the [...]
As digital music and music services like Rhapsody grow, you’ll want to track how well you are doing in the digital landscape. How well are you doing on YouTube, or Itunes, or on Myspace? Could you be doing better? Can you really tell where you should be focusing? Well this is where Big Champagne comes [...]
If you didn’t know, the video game industry is a very large industry. According to Wikipedia, our favorite “Make Your Own Truth” website, the industry raked in a massive $9.5 BILLION in 2007. To further illustrate the point, the Madden Football game series EA Sports can expect to deliver 1 BILLION impressions for a song. [...]
Copyright Hype: Indie Pool
Recently there has been some net chatter about Copyrighting your songs. My friends have asked me, “What’s the deal?” So here’s my take: Copyrighting is a different beast then it used to be. The internet has changed the way we look at copyright and the idea of ownership. Arguably when you digitize something (music, books, [...]