Active Clients:
Bandsintown & Cellfish:
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- Tech Review: Apps for Summer Music Fests – Newsday
- Apptitude: Use Phone Apps to Make Traveling Easier – Philadelphia Inquirer
- Kelli Richards Interviews Bandsintown Alexis Rodich - All Access Radio
- BandsInTown Reaches 5 Million App Installs - Hypebot
- Bandsintown Now Telling Five Million Users When Their Favorite Bands Are… Yep, You Guessed It – Pando Daily
- Bandsintown Named Best Music App for iPhone/iPod in About.com Readers’ Choice Awards
- Bandsintown Plans to Connect More Fans to Concerts Through Facebook – AllFacebook
- BandPage, AEG Digital, Abe Burns Win DMW’s Music Leadership Awards (Bandsintown in “Music Tech Startup to Watch” Top 3) – Hypebot
- Bandsintown app helps music lovers track concerts - WTOP
- Why Spotify Apps Are Actually Pretty Useful – Lifehacker
- Bandsintown Launches a Spotify App to Let You Know When Bands You Listen to Are Nearby – TechCrunch
- Push, Don’t Shove — Music Marketing That Actually Works (written by Julien Mitelberg) – The Huffington Post
- NHL Shoots for Repeat Mobile Usage Via Android App – Mobile Marketer
- Celebrate the opening hockey weekend with NHL 2013 Live Wallpaper – AndroidCentral
- Billboard.Biz Readers’ Survey Results, Part 3: The Biggest Issue Facing the Music Business Is … ? – Billboard.biz
- Billboard.Biz Readers’ Survey Results, Part 2: Mumford, PSY, Adele Among Most Important Artists of 2012 – Billboard.biz
- Billboard.Biz Readers’ Survey Results, Part 1: Most Important Event of 2012 – Billboard.biz
- What Can We Learn from the EDM Boom? (guest post by Alexis Rodich) – Hypebot
CISAC
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For more information on CISAC’s 2013 World Creators Summit: Create – Connect – Respect, click here.
For select stories from CISAC’s World Copyright Summit 2011, click here.
- Jean-Michel Jarre, Angélique Kidjo, Javed Akhtar, and Paul Williams Among 35+ Authors and Artists Speaking at World Creators Summit
- Decision Today Overturns Allegations That European Authors’ Societies Coordinated to Restrict Competition
- Maria Pallante, John Morton, Scott Turow, Jean-Michel Jarre and Hervé Di Rosa to Keynote at the World Creators Summit
- Initial Agenda Announced for CISAC’s World Creators Summit: Create – Connect – Respect June 4 & 5, 2013, Washington, DC
- CISAC Announces the Fourth Biennial World Creators Summit: Create – Connect – Respect June 4 & 5, 2013, Washington, DC
- CISAC Welcomes EU Proposal: Improving Rules Governing Authors’ Societies and Online Licensing Benefit Creators Worldwide
- CISAC Pays Tribute to Its President Robin Gibb, the Voice of a Generation and Relentless Champion for the Rights of Creators
MediaNet
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- The sound of music: iTunes store turns 10 - Larry Miller on APR’s Marketplace
- Frank Johnson, CEO at MediaNet (video interview) – Digital Music Trends
- Can APIs Solve Music’s ‘Crisis of Innovation’? – Billboard.biz
- MediaNet Startup Sandbox Gives Developing Digital Music Services the Content and Tools to Grow
- MediaNet Expanding Services to Mechanical Rights Licensing, Administration – Billboard.biz
- MediaNet Introduces Complete Copyright Administration, Licensing and Reporting Services for Record Labels, Music Services, Brands and CE Companies
- MediaNet Reveals Top 50 Holiday Songs by Streams and Downloads
- Billboard.Biz Readers’ Survey Results, Part 3: The Biggest Issue Facing the Music Business Is … ? - Billboard.biz
- Billboard.Biz Readers’ Survey Results, Part 2: Mumford, PSY, Adele Among Most Important Artists of 2012 – Billboard.biz
- Billboard.Biz Readers’ Survey Results, Part 1: Most Important Event of 2012 – Billboard.biz
- Larry Miller Joins MediaNet – Billboard.biz
- Larry Miller Names Executive VP, GM of B2B Digital Music Service MediaNet – Hypebot
- Larry Miller Named EVP/GM for B2B Digital Music Service MediaNet – All Access Music Group
- Larry Miller Named Executive Vice President and General Manager for B2B Digital Music Service MediaNet
NARM & digitalmusic.org:
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Music Biz 2013 Returns to Los Angeles May 6-9 – Official Website
For more information on Music Biz 2012, click here.
- digitalmusic.org Music Industry Style Guide Aims to Get Everyone Selling Music Online on the Same Page with Uniform Metadata
- digitalmusic.org Shows Bands, Labels, Music Retail Outlets, and More How to Top Search Engine Results Pages in New Infographic
- NARM VP Bill Wilson on the state of digital music: Automotive, metadata and contextual discovery - TheNextWeb
- NARM & digitalmusic.org’s Music Biz 2013 Gathers the Best of the Music Business May 6-9 in Los Angeles
- NARM and digitalmusic.org Look to the Future with May 8 Opening Session of Music Biz 2013
- NARM & digitalmusic.org Get Under the Hood of In-Car Music at Town Hall Forum
- digitalmusic.org to Hold Second “App Alley” Pop Up Demo & Exhibit Showcase at Music Biz 2013
- Hertz, Indaba Music, NARM and digitalmusic.org Team to Give Bands a Shot at Stardom During Music Biz 2013
- NARM and digitalmusic.org’s Music Business Academy Targets Labels, Artists, Managers, Startups, Developers, Students, and More at Music Biz 2013
- Up-and-Coming Alt-Folk Sister Act von Grey to Perform at Music Biz 2013 Opening Session
- Music Biz 2013 Keynote Panel “The Future of the Biz on the Future of the Biz” to Showcase Billboard’s “40 Under 40″
- Timberlake Keeps Billboard No. 1 from Lil Wayne, Blake Shelton – The New York Times
- R&B Rising Star Emeli Sandé to Receive Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award at Music Biz 2013
- digitalmusic.org Welcomes New Community Manager Robby Towns
- NARM and digitalmusic.org Tackle Metadata Issues at Music Biz 2013 Music Industry Metadata Summit
- TAG Strategic’s Ted Cohen to Receive NARM’s Presidential Award at Music Biz 2013
- NARM to Present Blues Legend Buddy Guy with Chairman’s Award at Music Biz 2013
- First-Ever digitalmusic.org Lounge @ SXSW Hits Trade Show Floor March 10-13
- NARM and digitalmusic.org Combine Popular Music Start Up Academy, Entertainment & Technology Law Conference Events in Nashville
- Kevin Arnold Named Co-Chair of digitalmusic.org
- The Explorist Spins Back Vintage Vinyl – and Profits (Jim Donio quoted) – Mission Local
- digitalmusic.org to Host Second App Alley Mobile, Game, and App Showcase at Music Biz 2013
- NARM’s Jim Donio on the GRAMMYs - Reuters
- Power 100: Music Associations & Trade Groups – Billboard
- NARM & digitalmusic.org’s New York Entertainment & Technology Law Conference Tackles Royalty Rates, Music Licensing, and Internet Domains on February 28
- NARM to Honor Record Store Day with Independent Spirit Award at Music Biz 2013
- NARM Names Muve Music’s Jeff Toig, Dimple Records’ Dilyn Radakovitz to Board – Billboard.biz
- Is Spotify Hurting Record Sales? Not Exactly – Pando Daily
- NARM and digitalmusic.org Welcome Muve Music, Dimple Records Representatives to Board of Directors
- Billboard.Biz Readers’ Survey Results, Part 3: The Biggest Issue Facing the Music Business Is … ? - Billboard.biz
- Billboard.Biz Readers’ Survey Results, Part 2: Mumford, PSY, Adele Among Most Important Artists of 2012 – Billboard.biz
- Billboard.Biz Readers’ Survey Results, Part 1: Most Important Event of 2012 – Billboard.biz
- Cee Lo Green Shares His Favorite Musical Christmas Gifts – Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Watch Cee Lo Talk Musical Gifts: Exclusive – Billboard.com
- Tried and True Turntables Make a Comeback, Thanks to Vinyl’s Growth (Jim Donio quoted) – The Tennessean
NY Tech Meetup:
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- WNYC Presents: How Tech Is Changing the Way Women Work (video of Jessica Lawrence on panel) – The Greene Space
- Marketplace Tech for Friday, March 8, 2013 (interview with Jessica Lawrence) – Marketplace Tech Report
- New Sponsors, Full Schedule Announced for Made in NY: Austin Event at SXSW
- NY Tech Meetup’s Jessica Lawrence on the Hottest Ticket in Town – Entrepreneur
- This Is New York: Dawn Barber, Co-Founder of NY Tech Meetup – The Epoch Times
- Made in NY: Austin Returns to SXSW to Celebrate NYC Tech, Culture, Food, and Art
- NYC’s Tech Community Lends Culture and Code to Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts – Forbes
- NYC’s Mayor Challenges Designers, Hardware Hackers, and Policy Buffs to Reinvent the Humble Payphone – TechCrunch
- Mayor Bloomberg Calls Upon Techies to Reinvent New York City’s Payphones – VentureBeat
- City to Techies: Design Payphone of the Future – Crain’s New York
- Michael Bloomberg Wants to Do Something Cool with New York’s Phone Booths – Slate
- New York City Challenges Silicon Alley to Reinvent the Payphone – WNYC
- Tech Community Helps Sandy Victims by Offering Expertise – NY1
- Hacking for a Post-Sandy New York City – Forbes
- New York Tech Meetup Rallying Tech Volunteers Post-Sandy – Business Insider
- Silicon Alley Deals with Power Loss – New York Post
- Geeks to the Rescue: NYC’s Tech Community Rallies Together for Sandy Relief – VentureBeat
- NYC Techies Volunteer to Get Businesses Back Up Post-Sandy – Xconomy
- NY Tech Meetup Organizes Its Tech Community to Aid Victims of Hurricane Sandy
- These Are the People Making NYC Tech Rock – VentureBeat
Rallyverse
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- Rallyverse, a Platform That Helps Brands Spread Authentic Content, Releases API – PandoDaily
- 6 Questions on Content Marketing with Joe Doran – Business 2 Community
- Third-Party Content Can Be a Key Component of Marketing on Facebook (guest post by Joe Doran) – AllFacebook
- Curate the Best Content Web-Wide with Rallyverse – AllTwitter
- Featured Startup Pitch: Rallyverse Seeks to Lead the Next Generation of Social Media Marketing with Its Content Discovery, Curation, and Publishing Platform – StartUp Beat
- Feeding the Content Beast with Rallyverse – MarketingTechBlog
- Twitter Adds Adobe Social, Visible Technologies as Partners – Mashable
- Twitter Keeps Focus on Marketing, Analytics Partners with Certified Products – GigaOM
- Twitter Expands Certified Products Program with Adobe Social, Sprout Social, Simply Measured, and More – The Next Web
- Twitter Welcomes Social Media Marketing Platform Rallyverse into Certified Products Program
- Tech Profile: Rallyverse – The Agency Post
- Rallyverse Introduces New Enhancements to Personalize Social Media Content Discovery for Brands
See.me
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- See.me Helps Artists Raise Money and Build Relationships with Fans – Mashable
- See.me Includes Musicians, Adds Donation System to Artist Portfolios and Contests – Hypebot
- Like a “Like,” but Better: See.me Lets You Tip Artists with Actual Money – AllThingsD
- See.me Introduces Tip Jar Feature to Fund Artists, Musicians, Designers, Photographers
- Artists Network See.me Taps Hip-Hop Legend Q-Tip as Competition Judge, Surpasses 600,000 Users
- “Accidental” Startup See.me, Now 600,000 Artists Strong, Revamps Site – Pando Daily
- See.me’s Community Is 500K Artists, $1.5M Strong – VentureBeat
- Artists Wanted Becomes See.me, Gives Away $125,000 in Grants and Awards
Highlights of Previous Client Work:
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7digital (US):
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- Music Platform 7digital Nabs $10 Million in Funding to Expand Its Profitable Activities – TechCrunch
- RIM Pacts with 7digital for Music – Variety
- Music Supplier 7digital Takes $10 Million to Do On-Demand, Radio – paidContent
- 7digital Expands Effort to Encourage Music Tech Innovation – Hypebot
- 7digital Updates Android App with Improved Discovery & Player Enhancements – Hypebot
- What Music Services Are Available Where? – evolver.fm
- Billboard’s 40 Under 40: Power Players on the Rise (Ben Drury featured) – Billboard.biz
- Samsung Music Hub Launches in the US: Is It a Viable Streaming Competitor (hands-on video) – The Verge
- Digital Notes: Samsung Music Hub Takes on Just About Everyone – New York Times Media Decoder
- Samsung’s Premium Music Hub Takes on Spotify, Pandora, iTunes/iCloud – evolver.fm
- Samsung Debuts Online ‘Music Hub,’ Challenges iTunes with 19 Million Tracks – Billboard.biz
Creative Allies:
- Shiny New Toys: Services for Artists at Summit ’11 and Beyond – Future of Music Coalition
- Creative Spark to Design Kooks Tour Poster – Manchester Evening News
- EMI Releases Crowdsourced Remix of Jane’s Addiction’s “Irresistible Force” – The Daily Crowdsource
- Creative Opportunities for the DIY Artist (interview with Sean O’Connell) – Musician Coaching
- Crowdsourcing.org Interviews Creative Allies at CrowdConf 2011 – Crowdsourcing.org
- Jane’s Addiction Crowdsources Art for ‘Irresistible Force’ Remix Single – Billboard.biz
- Beastie Boys Double Crowdsource Their New Poster – Hypebot
Digital Entertainment Ventures (DEV):
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- DEV Adds Veteran Entrepreneurs and Investors as Advisors; Welcomes Val Katayev and John Ason
- Get Relief from Election Madness with “Mad Humans Election 2012″
- Kelli Richards Q&A w/ Dick Wingate, Principal at DEV – BlogTalk Radio
- Sonic Notify Adds $4.25 Million to Deliver Content to Smartphones at Concerts, Events – Hypebot
- Sonic Notify Raises $4.25 Million, Partners with Interscope to Deliver Interactivity to Mobile Apps – TechCrunch
- DEV Closes Investment in Sonic Notify
- DEV Announces Investment in Open Air Publishing
- Why the Tea Party Should Hate ESPN – Forbes (guest post by Alan McGlade)
- DEV’s Alan McGlade on NYC’s Blossoming Digital Media Scene – The Deal
- Dick Wingate Exits TAG Strategic to Join DEV – Hypebot
- DEV Advisors Opens Doors; Welcomes Dick Wingate as Principal
- VC Turns on Money Spigot for NYC Media – Portfolio
- Q&A: Alan McGlade on His New Digital Media Fund – Xconomy
- DEV Invests Money and Expertise in StageIt and Mad Humans – Digital Media Wire
- New Digital Media Fund Could Help Finance Startups Like StageIt – Billboard.biz
- DEV, NYC’s New Seed Fund for Digital Media Startups, Announces First Investments – TechCrunch
- Veteran Media Executive Alan McGlade Launches DEV to Promote Next Generation Digital Media Companies
DiscLive Network
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- Featured Startup Pitch: DiscLive Network Gets Recordings and Media from Live Shows to Music Fans Before They Even Leave the Show – StartUp Beat
- DiscLive: Still Leveraging After-Show Sales of Concert Recordings – FOH Online
- Take Seether Home With You - Pollstar
Fred Goodman, author of Fortune’s Fool:
- Is new Warner Music buyer a sucker or savant? – Forbes (AP)
- The Seattle Times names Fortune’s Fool one of the top books of 2010
- London’s Sunday Times names Fortune’s Fool one of Top 7 books for 2010 (subscription required)
- Goodman engages with students at NYU Steinhardt Collegium
- Fred Goodman interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”
- Fortune’s Fool longlisted for FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year
- Financial Times review (registration required)
- USA Today Review
- “A” Review in The Onion AV Club
- Fred Goodman on Imus In the Morning
- Tell-All Author Riffs on Music Industry in Crisis; Part 1 – Fred Goodman Q&A in Wired.com
- Off The Shelf: The Recording Industry on the Rocks – NY Times
- WSJ Bookshelf: Trying to Find The Right Beat (subscription required)
- Music’s Misunderstood Genius – The Daily Beast
- Newsweek Q&A with Fred Goodman
- Fred Goodman Interviewed by Pat Bolland on BNN TV’s “Trading Day”
- Fred Goodman on CBC-TV’s Lang & O’Leary (at 48:00)
Hello Music:
- Hello Music Named to Billboard’s “Top 10 Startups of 2010″ (August 21, 2010 issue)
- Hello Music, connecting bands with opportunities – LA Times blog
- The Opposite of Crowdsourcing: Hello Music Launches – Billboard.biz
- Investors Say ‘Hello’ to Hello Music; $4 Million to Start… – Digital Music News
- Hello Music Gets $4M For Indie Launch Platform – Hypebot
Indaba Music:
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- Biz: Interview w/ Matt Siegel of Indaba Music – Indie Ambassador
- Getty Images Partners with Indaba to Crowdsource Music for Advertisement – The Daily Crowdsource
- Getty Teams Up With Indaba for Sync Promotion – Music Week
- Getty Images and Indaba Team Up for Crowdsourced Ad Music - AdWeek
- Joe Jonas Debuts ‘Love Slayer,’ Launches $2,500 Remix Contest - Billboard.com
- Billboard Pro Video Q&A: Dan Zaccagnino, CSO and Co-Founder of Indaba Music
- Grooveshark adds channel for emerging artists - Mashable
- Amazon user Indaba pokes fun at cloud troubles in Site Down Jam! contest – LA Times
- Amazon Server Fail: The Remix Contest – Evolver.fm
- Music Platform Asks You To Remix It Up While Amazon’s Server Is Down – Mashable
- Amanda Palmer Remix Winner: Local teen musician enters remix contest – York Daily Record
- Amanda Palmer Remix Winner item – Detroit Free Press
Henry Leutwyler:
- Photo Booth: Michael Jackson: Treasures of Neverland – The NewYorker.com
- Local news channel NY1 highlights Henry Leutwyler’s “Neverland Lost – Portrait of Michael Jackson”
- Photographer Henry Leutwyler Q&A with Hollis King on “Neverland Lost – A Portrait of Michael Jackson” March 17
LyricFind:
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What the FCC’s New Rules Mean to Music Companies (Darryl Ballantyne quoted)- Billboard.biz
- Interview with CEO of LyricFind – part 2 – Hypebot
- Interview with CEO of LyricFind -part 1 - Hypebot
- The Value of Lyrics – MusicianCoaching.com
Mobile Backstage:
- Mobile Backstage takes its DIY apps platform to Android – The Appside
- Mobile Backstage Appoints David Hazan Chief Marketing Officer – Billboard.biz
- Connect With Fans Using New Mobile Backstage Facebook & Mobile Apps – Hypebot
Musicmetric
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- Music fans download 759m songs as report names Gainesville, FL America’s BitTorrent capital
- Legitimate Streaming Services Cut Down on Piracy, Report Suggests – Billboard.biz
- Americans Buy More Music Than They Pirate– WSJ.com
- Bootleg music downloading a thing of the past? Not so, study says – LA Times
- Researchers Say Gainesville, Fla., Is America’s ‘Pirate Capital’ – CNET
- Gainesville Ranked No. 1 for Pirating – The Independent Florida Alligator
- Data Scientists Figured Out What Songs You’ll Like – In 24 Hours [Musicmetric infographic] – Forbes.com
- Musicmetric Expands to U.S. Under Daniel Savage – Billboard.biz
- Musicmetric Expands Music Data Service to U.S., Partners with A2iM – Hypebot
ROBA Interactive:
- This Week in Apps: Pitbull’s Planet Pit, Incubus with Viddy, Radical.fm – Billboard
- Miami’s Pitbull releases first album —with app - Miami Herald
- ROBA in App Smarts “Quick Calls” – New York Times
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Sweet jazz sounds with the packaging to match – Philadelphia Daily News
- ROBA Launches Interactive Albums for Tablets – Billboard.biz
- Music Industry Heavyweights Go Deep with ROBA iPad Apps - Evolver.fm
- Phil Ramone, Larry Rosen, Larry Miller Form ROBA To Create iPad & Android Tablet Music Apps - Hypebot
- Can the iPad Really Bring the Album Back? – Digital Music News
- IPad App Offers a Bit Of Music Nostalgia – WSJ.com
Robert Levine
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SuperGlued:
- MTV takes on Songkick with MTV Live & Local mobile music app – MusicAlly
- Are You A Real Pearl Jam Fan? – OC Weekly
- Pearl Jam contest in Seattle Weekly blog
- How big a Pearl Jam fan are you?- Salt Lake Tribune
- Return Of New York Summer Music Junkie Contest – CMJ
- 20 Essential Online Resources for Finding New Music – Mashable
- Superglued Sneak Peek: App, Unveiling At SXSW, Finds Gigs Based On Location, Friends, Preferences -Billboard.biz
- Platform for Concertgoers Launches Android App in Time for SXSW – Mashable
TuneSat:
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- GYML Summer Interview Series: Chris Woods of TuneSat – GetYourMusicLicensed
- Big Data Helps ID Who’s “Stealing” That Song – Read Write Web
- TuneSat Tracks Lennon and Ono – Prosound Network
- John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Lenono Music & Ono Music Select TuneSat to Monitor Songs on Television and the Internet
- How Big Data Will Disrupt the $9 Billion Music Publishing Rights Business – WSJ.com: CIO Journal
- Musical ‘Big Data’ Problem Could Be Depriving Artists of Significant Revenue – evolver.fm
- Biz: Interview w/ Chris Woods of TuneSat – Indie Ambassador
- Spotting Revenue: TuneSat’s Chris Woods – Music Business Journal
- TuneSat Launches Audio Technology to Detect Unlicensed Streaming - RollingStone.com
- TuneSat Debuts Exclusive Internet Monitoring Technology - Music Row
- NFL on FOX Theme: The Story Behind the Iconic Song – …ology
- Music Placement and Royalties – interview with Chris Woods – Musician Coaching
- Publishing Briefs: Imagem Signs Elvis Presley Agreement, Zappa Family Trust Makes Deal With TuneSat, More – Billboard.biz
- TuneSat Launches Online Portal, Enables Immediate Signup for All Music Rightsholders - SonicScoop
- TuneSat Expands Across Europe – Music Week
- TuneSat Announces Low-Price Service for Small Publishers – Billboard.biz
- TuneSat Now Tracking Music For All Rights Holders – American Songwriter
- TuneSat Offers New Portal and Extends Reach – Music Row
- TuneSat Raises $6 Million, Plans to Build Team and Expand to New Markets – Billboard.biz
