Posted on May 30, 2007 by MJ Digital
IndieStore are pushing a unique concept in social networking – why not make money from your music?
Indie Store are almost unique within the social network environment since they’re actually providing a way for musicians to make money from their music. As part of their free service, an artiste or label can upload four tracks of [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2007 by MJ Digital
One of Million’s most sought after services is to promote fantastic music to blogs and music editors. To achieve this we keep researching the best blogs and online music magazines. We find it surprising there are not more UK blogs, although some of them have been going strong for some time and have great taste. [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2007 by MJ Digital
With declining sales in the real world, can record companies reverse their woes in the virtual world?
The Music Lounge
Music Lounge is a 3D Virtual world, but unlike it’s more familiar competitor Second Life, is geared around music. It has been in the news lately since Universal decided to extend their relationship with Doppleganger, the company [...]
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Posted on May 29, 2007 by MJ Digital
Another week, another revolution in social networks…
So, three weeks ago we wrote about PureVolume, the music social network that blows MySpace out of the water. Then we featured Imeem, which improved upon PureVolume. And, this week, we bring you Virb.com – a site to rival Imeem and written by, you guessed it, the guys who [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2007 by MJ Digital
With the rise and rise of blogging, there are several sites that ‘blog the blogs’. The benefit for a user is that it saves time visiting each blog in turn, and provides a useful one-stop to see what each blog is featuring. However, these blogs can provide further information such as which tracks are most [...]
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Posted on May 25, 2007 by MJ Digital
The problem of updating multiple websites is becoming a common headache for labels & management. The web is rapidly fragmenting in to a multitude of different touch points between fan and artiste. Million have employed a very easy solution to update Jamiroquai’s MySpace, taking a feed directly from his website’s Content Management System, although you [...]
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Posted on May 21, 2007 by MJ Digital
As bands move from CDs to downloads will the digital media industry loose touch with customers?
Independent music artists make much of their revenue with merchandise sold during live shows…‘’been there, bought the t-shirt’’…but as bands move from CDs to digital downloads the challenge now is to keep the customer connected and get fans to remember [...]
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