After we published the post on the comparison between our digital music distribution service and those of our competitors, we got some comments talking about tools that you can use to promote your music online. A good one to get started with is TubeMogul. If you’ve produced a video for your latest track (like this one for The People’s String Foundation’s new album) then you can use TubeMogul to get it up with multiple video sites, YouTube, Break, Viddler, Dailymotion, Revver etc. You can also track the stats for each video across all the different sites, and promote your video through their targeted content network.
You might have noticed RouteNote has now added a new tools section. Artists can see this tools section once they log into their account and the tools tab can be found in the headerbar. The aim of the tools page is to provide RouteNote artists with tools and options that will help them promote and market themselves on the ever growing internet.
The tools page will offer options in the following categories, Offers and Deals, Banners, Self Promotion eBooks, Widgets, Link and Linkmaker, and Online Advertising.
We hope you enjoy these new tools
In the current climate P2P and Bittorrent file sharing isnt seen as illegal in all countries, but overall it has to be the biggest threat on the music industry because of its nature.
Songbeat has launched a new version of their service which seems to be taking piracy to a new level.
It’s a desktop app that lets users search for music on Seeqpod, Project Playlist, Last.fm and other sites, and then download the files and import them into iTunes or Windows Media Player, or burn them as a CD. It’s free in its basic edition, which only allows 25 downloads, but users have to pay €19.99 for the premium version to download as much as they want.
This has to be illegal! They are now a company that is profiting directly from piracy. Not according to Songbeat: “The downloading of music is not fundamentally illegal. However, it lies in the hands of the user to discern whether or not they have the right to download the particular music file at hand.” Even Musically thinks this’ll end up in court.
(via TechCrunch)
