RouteNote Blog » techcrunch http://routenote.com/blog The World of Music Licensing and Distribution Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:52:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Myspace Shifts Focus To Content Discovery and Integrated Marketing http://routenote.com/blog/myspace-shifts-focus-to-content-discovery-and-integrated-marketing/ http://routenote.com/blog/myspace-shifts-focus-to-content-discovery-and-integrated-marketing/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:27:29 +0000 Dashiel http://routenote.com/blog/?p=2714 Michael Arrington of TechCrunch sat down for a coffee-table interview with Myspace’s new CEO, Owen Van Natta for this chummy interview:

Myspace will be making an effort to re-enliven its music content, focussing on “discovery, sharing and showcasing” new content, including games and video. Read the full trasncript of the article here on TechCrunch.

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Funding was led by Allen Graber, who is a technology investor and entrepreneur. Band Metrics was a Techcrunch 50 2008 semi-finalise, and this is a great step forward for their company. Band Metrics provides a first-of-its-kind semantic web application for the music industry that collects, analyzes and displays artist’s dynamic popularity. The company’s music intelligence and analytics are achieved through patent pending technology which assists artists in understanding large amounts of data relative to their music, fans and shows, while also helping them manage their digital identity.

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]]> http://routenote.com/blog/band-metrics-soon-to-launch-analytics-tool-for-bands-get-angel-funding/feed/ 0 P2P Music Downloads Worth $69 billion. Is Digital Music Distribution Going Down The Toilet? http://routenote.com/blog/p2p-music-downloads-worth-69-billion-is-digital-music-distribution-going-down-the-toilet/ http://routenote.com/blog/p2p-music-downloads-worth-69-billion-is-digital-music-distribution-going-down-the-toilet/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:32:33 +0000 Finchy http://routenote.com/blog/?p=210 In 2007 P2P music downloads were worth a staggering $69 billion, and all other forms of movie/television piracy are on the rise.

Techcrunch has been talking a lot about using music online as a free promotion tool, because eventually music will be free online. If record labels do use music online as a free promotional tool then they need to have other revenue stream. Warner Music is signing their new artists to 360 deals, in which allows them to have all revenues streams.

Somebody over there needs to put their thinking cap on, quit screwing around and just give the damn music away for free with no lawsuit strings attached.

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]]> http://routenote.com/blog/p2p-music-downloads-worth-69-billion-is-digital-music-distribution-going-down-the-toilet/feed/ 1 Techcrunch UK Feature RouteNote http://routenote.com/blog/techcrunch-uk-feature-routenote/ http://routenote.com/blog/techcrunch-uk-feature-routenote/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:57:30 +0000 Finchy http://routenote.com/blog/?p=122 RouteNote received some great press this morning by the UK version of the worlds largest technology weblog, Techcrunch.

Mike Butcher was nice enough to provide some great insights

I think this model generally works – unsigned or independent labels don’t want to pay money up front with no guarantees of selling anything, but they do want a route to market.

RouteNote is a great way for unsigned bands to get themselves to market, then it is all about promotion, promotion, promotion.

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