Twitmusic is more than a music sharing application based on and connecting to Twitter. It is a community for music enthusiasts and musicians alike. Fans may discover new music introduced by musicians, which may use the platform as a launch pad for their releases. A broad overview of the service is given by the article below, for more visit Twitmusic.
Twitmusic is socializing the Web music industry using Twitter and top artists
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AudioDraft is the name of a new online marketplace enabling media producers to ask for music productions made by order. The idea is to be a mediator between musicians and producers seeking music for particular purposes like video games or online video and the like. This all happens by producers creating contests, which may be choosen by musicians to participate. For more visit AudioDraft.
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A brief overview of new services for the online music business, specialized services for the social media marketing, public relations and the management of the online music business.
Onesheet is the social media marketing service. It is an aggregator service to present various social media activities in one profile page. By this Onesheet provides an additional presence and an easily to communicate internet address letting fans find and choose their social network of preference to connect.
StereoGrid enables public relations for musicians by connecting to the press and influentual websites. The site is targeting both, musicians to send out informationn and the press and websites owners to get information. Information means either news like press releases or even the direct introduction of music.
Last but not least here is Artist Growth, a management application for the music business. The platform enables to manage data about events and finances and the like. By the integration of social media news may become distributed and data about sales of tickets and merchandising being captured.
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There are a lot of opportunities at mx3, a music portal from Swiss. Of course there is a lot of music within the site, which is designed like a community and social network and which enables all kind of communications. Furthermore up to date information and news are offered.
MX3 does not stand for mp3 as one may suppose but for the operators of the site. This is interesting to musicians as the operators are well established radio services and music introduced becomes acknowledged by these parties. Furthermore everyone may create an own channel and there is a mobile version available of mx3.
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The interesting question how much bands and musicians may earn online is answered by the band Uniform Motion, which has posted its own experiences with various well known online platforms to sell music. The data provides some insights into the play to pay ratio of online sales as well as earnings by offline sales. Here is the original post by Uniform Motion and the following article is giving a more neat overview: How Much Does A Band Earn From Each Music Platform? Uniform Notion Shares The Numbers.
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Google, which just has been subject of the former post about new services around Google Music, has introduced a new technological standard to index information about music and music files available within websites, which concerns the development of music sites. Introduced has been a set of Rich Snippets tags enabling the display of available music at sites within the search results. By this searchers now become aware of the availability of music files at sites appearing within search results. More about the new function including technological details is available by the official Google post A new rich snippets format for music.
Here by the way is another interesting article about the development of the online music space and the distribution of music, which states that new media in general as well as social networking means have led to a broader choice of music at all and by this to a change of the consumption of music.
The implications of the new broader, flatter distribution of music taste
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